The mayor of Tinajo and current president of the Canarian Coalition Local Committee, Jesús Machín, confirmed that this Friday at 9:00 p.m. at the Los Dolores restaurant, the election of the board of directors of the nationalist formation will take place, in which the more than 300 members that CC has in the municipality will be able to participate.
Machín, who will surely continue to hold the presidency, said that the idea is to appoint the same secretariats that CC has at the island level and three vice presidents. "We will try to make all members feel part of the CC project," he commented.
Jesús Machín highlights the notable presence of young people and women in the CC Local Committee in Tinajo and encourages supporters to formalize their affiliation to the nationalist project. "We are all perfectly aware of the needs of the municipality and the Island in general," Machín pointed out.
After the closing ceremony of the renewal of the Local Committee, a party is scheduled to which the supporters of the Federation of parties are also invited. Machín expects the attendance of senior CC officials from all over the Archipelago. Those interested in joining CC can do so on the same day and for this it is not necessary to make any type of financial contribution. "For us, everyone is an honorary member," he added.
The Executive, in defense of triple parity
One of the topics of analysis in the CC Island Executive held this Tuesday was the probable agreement that the state parties, PP and PSOE, could close to carry out the electoral reform that would determine a regional list in the Autonomous Community in the face of the election of the Canarian Parliament.
Mario Pérez, island president of CC, and his party colleagues on the Island think that ultimately this supposed regional list, which would end equity in the parliamentary representation of the islands, would respond only to the demands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife, leaving out and marginalizing the interests of the so-called peripheral islands, such as Lanzarote and Fuerteventura in the eastern province and La Gomera, El Hierro and La Palma, in the western province.
Regional list
In addition, the regional list does not operate in any autonomous community in the country, not even in single-province communities such as Asturias, Murcia or the Balearic Islands. "Throughout Europe there are no examples that the leaders of the PP and PSOE may have looked at to say that it is advisable to make an autonomous constituency," Pérez pointed out.
For its part, the regional Executive of CC has challenged the state parties to agree on the increase of deputies for Gran Canaria, which the PSOE puts at 10 and the PP at 15, "against reality and with the terrible consequence of putting the peripheral islands in a much more delicate situation."
The CC Island Executive decided to meet on the first Tuesday of each month, while the Standing Committee will do so every Tuesday. For its part, the Political Council, the highest island body of CC, must meet every six months by statute, but the members of the Council intend to do so at least every three months.
Another speech
Despite the defense of triple parity that CC makes at the island level, the absolute president of the formation, Paulino Rivero, handles another speech. Rivero, who proposes to go from 60 to 69 regional parliamentarians, launched the proposition that the distribution of the new seats be as follows: 3 more deputies from Gran Canaria, 3 from Tenerife, 1 from Lanzarote, 1 from Fuerteventura and 1 from La Palma, leaving out La Gomera and El Hierro. Thus, the capital islands would have an advantage in representation over the remaining five and an Island like Lanzarote, which has a population of over 120,000 inhabitants, would have the same representation as La Palma, whose residents are in the order of 80,000.
The reactions were immediate and the first to oppose was the island president of CC. Mario Pérez said openly that CC Lanzarote does not share Rivero and company's proposal at all, nor any initiative that involves the rupture of triple parity.
The island leader of the coalition will maintain his position even if it is in frank contradiction with the postulates of the nationalist leadership, among other things, because if the regional Government, with the approval of large sums of money for the social action plans of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, recognizes the infrastructure deficit as a consequence of the demographic explosion, it would be absurd to apply an outdated population criterion when distributing parliamentary seats.
In addition, Pérez recalled that the Island Council approved by unanimity of the political groups an institutional declaration in defense of triple parity.
