The Sumar for Las Palmas candidacy celebrated its presentation this Wednesday in Gran Canaria, on the eve of the start of the electoral campaign. The event was attended by Noemí Santana (candidate for Congress of Deputies for the eastern province), who was accompanied by Sumar's candidate for the Senate for Lanzarote, Nona Perera, as well as candidates Getsemaní de San Marcos, José Joaquín O'Shanahan, Hiurma Castejón and Fernando Letang, among others.
Santana, former minister of the Government of the Canary Islands and a leading figure of Podemos Canarias, told the media that the candidacy starts "with strength and enthusiasm, accompanied by very valid colleagues, with experience and with the best candidate we could have for the presidency of the Government." The progressive representative celebrated the existence of a coalition agreement and highlighted the need to "face the common challenge we have in the upcoming general elections and also put a limit to the reactionaries," she concluded.
For her part, Nona Perera, candidate for the Senate for the island of Lanzarote, expressed her willingness to advance in "the opening of the Senate to the citizens of the islands", overcoming the image of the institution as "a distant, remote place, of people in jackets." Perera also pointed out the centrality of the ecologist agenda and Human Rights: "It is time to address the climatic conditions of workplaces and schools to face climate change in a sustainable and balanced way among the different social strata."
The event took place in a climate of enthusiasm, with the candidates coinciding on the need to "win the future for the citizens and turn Yolanda Díaz into the first president of the Spanish State" next July 23.