The spokesman for Nueva Canarias, Luis Campos, assured this Tuesday that the "only red line" that this political option sets to share a candidacy to Congress with Coalición Canaria is not to support a national government formed by the PP and Vox."
Campos assured this when there are barely 72 hours left before the deadline for the presentation of electoral coalitions for the appointment with the polls on July 23, in which, in his opinion, "it is not decided who will be the next president of the Government of Spain, but who will represent the Canary Islands in that Chamber, whose members will define the formation of the new Government."
"Although NC has not spoken yet", he said, "about who their candidates will be, since Pedro Quevedo wants to focus on his management in the City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, although he will do what his party entrusts him, the nationalists of Román Rodríguez do not put any obstacle to María Fernández repeating as a candidate for CC."
The only thing that NC maintains as conditions in the negotiation that it does not consider closed with CC is that its formation leads the list for Las Palmas, that each of the formations exercises the representation of this coalition for two years, with the first two corresponding to the Canarian nationalists, and that the "unity of action" prevails between both forces whenever possible.
"It will be necessary to explore consensus and agree on differences, and in the last case, go to abstention as a bloc"
When it is not, Campos said, "it will be necessary to explore consensus and agree on differences, and in the last case, go to abstention as a bloc."
NC has insisted that "in a moment in which the politics of blocs predominates and in which the extreme right grows, it is decisive for the interests of the Canary Islands to have a political bloc in Congress focused on its defense, which could lead to at least two representatives if it succeeds", as happened in 2019, the alliance with CC.
If this coalition were not possible, a scenario on which NC does not work, the formation chaired by Román Rodríguez will compete alone in the next elections with the forecast of being able to obtain a representative for Santa Cruz de Tenerife and another for Las Palmas, its parliamentary spokesman has said.
Asked about the conditions that CC has put on the table in this negotiation, which could involve demanding that NC support the investiture of Fernando Clavijo as president of the Canarian Government and Alberto Núñez Feijóo as head of the new national Executive, Luis Campos considered that "it is necessary to dissociate Canarian politics from national politics when exploring an electoral coalition to compete in Congress, as was done in 2019."
The Canarian nationalists consider these conditions intolerable and hope that the negotiations they are holding with the campaign coordinator of CC, José Miguel Barragán, and Víctor Díaz, will come to fruition, which does not prevent NC from presenting its candidacy alone in anticipation of failure.
According to NC, "the defense of self-government and the statutory development of the Canary Islands", respect for its REF, and the defense of "fair treatment of this region in the General State Budgets must be the pillars on which this intended nationalist electoral confluence is based."
