The socialist candidate for the Congress of Deputies for Las Palmas, María Dolores Corujo, spoke this Monday on the microphones of Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero where she spoke about her leap to national politics and reviewed the election results of the local and island elections.
"The truth is that it is a historic event within the organization. Never in the history of democracy has a non-capital island been able to lead the list to the Congress of Deputies for the province of Las Palmas. I feel frankly honored and with an extraordinary responsibility at a key moment for our country," Corujo revealed during her speech.
The socialist faces a great challenge in the face of the general elections on July 23: the emergence of the far right in the Canary Islands, its growth in the rest of the country and the setback that the disappearance of Unidas Sí Podemos has meant in most of the regional and national map.
Dolores Corujo lost the presidency of the Cabildo of Lanzarote by only 69 votes against the nationalist Oswaldo Betancort. However, the socialist has been recommended by the president of the PSOE in the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, to head the party's list for Las Palmas in the Archipelago. "He made the decision that if it wasn't him, it had to be me," she revealed.
"First of all, we are facing general elections, we will assume responsibility in the constitution of the Parliament of the Canary Islands on June 27 and from this moment I would leave the seat as Deputy of the Parliament of the Canary Islands and assume the responsibility of representing the PSOE in Congress," Corujo advanced.
However, regarding her future and her connection to local politics, the socialist said that "she is not going to distance herself from the politics of my island, of my land." The decision to leave the seat of the Cabildo of Lanzarote has not yet been made and Corujo did not want to advance what will happen in the highest insular institution.
"We have had the best results in the history of the Socialist Party, only uniquely comparable to the absolute majority of 93. The Cabildo of Lanzarote has increased in votes and also in percentage, we have obtained almost 500 more votes than in 2019."
In the past elections of May 28, Lanzarote was the Canary Island where the largest number of citizens abstained. "We, the citizens, will decide if we want to continue with progress or return to the Spain of black and white, of cuts and suffering of the right," the socialist candidate stressed.
"If we get discouraged, if we believe that with our vote we will not be able to transform things and decide who we want to represent and govern us, we have a serious problem, because then the extreme right and the nationalist right will govern. The difference is a vote. The capacity of the vote when deciding is so important," Corujo insisted.
The emergence of the far right in Spanish institutions is one of the concerns of the socialist candidate. "My generation never thought that the dark and black times would be repeated in Spain, but we are seeing that the extreme right is part of the Chamber and the Institutions, trying to confront and reverse all rights, threatening with their repeal."
