Nueva Canarias - Canarista Bloc (NC-BC) has decided this Saturday to bring forward to July 2025 the celebration of its National Congress scheduled for October of that year, in an attempt to seek consensus with a part of the party members who are asking for new faces, proposals and political lines in the party.
This was unanimously voted by the attendees of the Political Council, the highest body of NC between congresses, which took place at the Metropole Swimming Club, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, with the absence of several of those who are asking for these changes: the mayor of Gáldar, Teodoro Sosa; the mayor of Agüimes, Oscar Hernández; the one of Agaete, Jesús González; the former mayor of Guía, Pedro Rodríguez, or the mayor of Santa Lucía de Tirajana, Francisco García.
"In democratic organizations one has the right to attend or not, so we will not make any assessment about the absences, of which some are justified, but it will be the absentees who explain why they are not there", declared the president of NC, Román Rodríguez, in a press conference.
Among the absentees, García made it public that he would not attend the Political Council due to the Southeast Fair being held in Santa Lucía de Tirajana and Sosa was today on Route 2030 that was held in Gáldar and which was also attended by the president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo.
Asked by the press, the mayor of Gáldar declared that Route 2030 is an institutional act and "if I am here I am not in the Political Council. I don't know how it will end because I don't know what the agreements will be, we will wait and see them."
For Rodríguez, the celebration of this Political Council has been relevant to discuss general issues and "respond to an internal debate that must be addressed from frankness, that is, that no one is missing in this organization, we are going to keep the doors open absolutely to the people who did not attend, so that they participate in the National Congress."
Regarding the topics to be discussed at the meeting next July, Rodríguez has assured that "everything fits: political line, organizational model and new leadership."
Luis Campos, parliamentary spokesperson for NC, explained that during Sunday's meeting a document was unanimously voted to reach the proposals that were given to the members who have raised a change in leadership over the past few months and from whom, for the moment, they have not received a response.
"I am not throwing in the towel in the sense that since we have not received a response it has not been positive or negative and one of the aspects that we have also ratified unanimously today is to continue exhausting all avenues of dialogue to try to reach an agreement and consensus in order to continue maintaining this political space united, of course, in view of the national political Congress in July," said Campos.
"I think they are a series of measures that move a lot from the initial positions," he added.
This document includes the advancement of the date of the National Congress, a greater representation of independent members in the congress organizing committee, that the delegates who attend have greater weight than the independents would have by statute and advance towards a more transversal and horizontal organizational model, reinforcing the presence of women and young people.
"The renewal does not only depend on the faces and leaders, but also on organizational aspects, the message, connecting in another way with the street," said the vice president of the party, Carmen Hernández.
Hernández wanted to emphasize that from the leadership there is no "immobility", as demonstrated by the issues voted, which give "very important steps to advance in an agreement."
During the meeting, in which members of the party belonging to all the municipalities and islands where Nueva Canarias is present participated, in person or remotely, the current political situation was also analyzed, from the dana and its consequences in Valencia, to regional financing, going through the General State Budgets, the regional budgets, the migratory crisis and the victory of Donald Trump in the United States elections.
