The Minister of Social Welfare and Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands, Inés Rojas, spoke this Monday about her political future. "There comes a time in life when you have to take a step back," said Rojas, stating that after her party, Coalición Canaria, did not count on her for the electoral lists of the next elections, she abandons "in some way active politics" and will return to her job. "I was willing to continue if my party considered it so," she admitted, "but at some point it had to end." "And if that moment has arrived, with a very important baggage, I retire in some way and I go back to my job," she added.
In an interview on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero, Rojas was asked especially about the possibility offered by Nueva Canarias to compete under its banner, something that was speculated for several weeks. "I was weighing it a lot and it seemed to me that it was not appropriate," said the politician from Lanzarote, who says that she is "very grateful for the possibility" offered by Román Rodríguez's formation. Rojas, however, did not want to comment on "what was said and what was not said" in those negotiations.
"I decided not to take the leap from the first moments in which Coalición Canaria closes its lists, the candidacies or first positions, and I am not in them," she explained. "They gave me a few days to think about it (Nueva Canarias), I was weighing it a lot, but I have to say that I was clear that I would not do it quickly," she added.
She will "weigh" whether to campaign in favor of CC
Regarding the possibility of campaigning for Coalición Canaria, Rojas says that she has a "broken heart" and that she still has to "weigh" whether she will publicly ask for the vote for the nationalist formation. "I will see what I do, I am absolutely focused on completing the things that I have pending and that are perfectly completed in the two months that remain of government," she said. "It is clear that at this moment I have a broken heart, because I have colleagues who seem absolutely respectable to me, electorally speaking, for people to support them in one place or another," she acknowledged.
The Minister of the Government of the Canary Islands has stated that she is currently "preparing" her return "to school", to her work. "I have already been there talking with colleagues and also with the Ministry of Education to have things prepared so that, immediately after I cease in the Government, I can join the school," she added.
Inés Rojas maintains, on the other hand, that she leaves with "gratitude to the people of Lanzarote and La Graciosa". "I don't know if so many people in politics could say this, but I say it in capital letters and with the greatest of feelings, thank you, in capital letters, because I always, always, felt very supported and supported by the population of our islands," she says. In fact, Rojas believes that the population of Lanzarote and La Graciosa would have "understood" that she ran with NC in the elections, in the same way that she maintains that they will "understand that she made the decision" not to do so.
