The National Executive Committee of Coalición Canaria, CEN, meeting on Wednesday afternoon, agreed to designate Pedro San Ginés, deputy of the Canarian Nationalist Group, as a candidate for the Senate for the Autonomous Community.
It will be in the next Plenary Session of the Parliament of the Canary Islands that is scheduled to be held next Tuesday, July 25, when the Canarian Nationalist Parliamentary Group will submit the proposal to the Plenary that will have to designate the three senators for the Autonomous Community that correspond to the Canary Islands.
Pedro San Ginés is currently charged with various corruption crimes in the case being investigated regarding the hiring of his lawyer friend, Ignacio Calatayud, in the public companies Inalsa and the Consortium. His designation as senator would make him immune from prosecution, so the cases he has in progress would go to the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court.
San Ginés joined the Cabildo de Lanzarote in 1999 and in 2009 he was elected president, a position he held until 2019. In the 2019-2023 legislature he was councilor and spokesperson for the Canarian nationalists in the island corporation. In the local and regional elections last May, he was elected councilor of the Arrecife City Council, although he finally resigned from his position, he was also elected deputy of the Canarian Nationalist Group for the Lanzarote constituency.
In addition to the designation of the candidate for the Senate for the Autonomous Community, the CEN made an assessment of the electoral campaign that ends tomorrow. The nationalists, who have focused the campaign on "the need for the Canary Islands to have their own voice and be decisive in Madrid in state policies from this Sunday," hope to expand the representation they currently have in the Cortes Generales.
The National Executive Committee of Coalición Canaria will meet again next Monday, July 24, to analyze the result obtained by the Canarian nationalists in the General Elections this Sunday.
