The spokesperson for the Mixed group, Isaac Castellano, asked the president of the Canary Islands Government, Adán Martín, this Tuesday not to give lessons on democracy because "you use it so that your party -Canarian Coalition- has two spokespersons in this regional Chamber."
Castellano, lashed out -in his second intervention in the Debate on the state of Nationality- against the other spokesperson of his parliamentary group, María Isabel Déniz, who in the upcoming elections on May 27 will be the candidate of the Canarian Coalition (CC) for the Mayor's Office of Arrecife. In Isaac Castellano's opinion, the fact that CC has two spokespersons in Parliament this legislature "is the most indecent issue that democracy in the Canary Islands has experienced, and the worst part is that this has been tolerated."
In fact, the spokesperson for the Mixed group denounced that Martín has tried "to give more lessons as a democrat, when one of the phenomena that most affects democracy is the defection that occurs in the parties."
He also criticized the Government of Adán Martín for "being the first to comply with laws that do not exist" and the head of the Executive himself "for having been formally, but not in fact, the president of all Canarians."
In that sense, he recalled that Adán Martín "has been seen a lot lately" in Lanzarote, "but not to see the island's problems, but to attend partisan events."
Castellano accused Martín of "using nationalism to be in power" and of "trying to break any nationalist initiative that would put his power at risk."
CRITICISMS OF DÉNIZ'S PSOE
For her part, María Isabel Déniz clarified to Isaac Castellano and the president of the Socialist parliamentary group (PSC-PSOE), Juan Carlos Alemán, that she is and has been a nationalist and that she will be the CC candidate for the Arrecife City Council "with great pride and not like other candidates who are running not because they want to, but because they are obligated."
Déniz also had words for the PSOE, which she criticized for not defending the interests of the Canary Islands to the point, she said, that "the Law on Complementary Transfers (LOTRACA) has not been admitted in Madrid today." Therefore, she stated that she cannot tolerate the "submission" of the PSOE of the Canary Islands to that of Madrid on issues such as the statutory reform.
Regarding Adán Martín's intervention, she said that the Canary Islands has "a great challenge" which is to structure its economy, diversifying it with the improvement of tourism: reconversion of the accommodation plant, leisure equipment, etc., in the generation of Canarian companies and in the promotion of industry and the maintenance of the primary sector.
"I believe that the Islands need social cohesion programs, economic cohesion actions and policies that structure our cultural values," said María Isabel Déniz, concluding that "a people that has no history is not a people and, therefore, in the Canary Islands we must make an effort to maintain the values."
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