Pedro Sánchez was invested as President of the Government of Spain this Thursday at noon. With the votes of the socialist bench, Sumar, Esquerra, PNV, EH Bildu, Junts and Coalición Canaria, Sánchez has revalidated his mandate.
The voting resulted in 179 votes in favor of the socialist deputy and 171 against. The parties that opposed voting for Sánchez as President of the Spanish Government are the Partido Popular, Vox and Unión del Pueblo Navarro.
Among the deputies who supported Sánchez, the socialist councilor María Dolores Corujo offered her support to her party's candidate.
He also received the support of the deputy of Coalición Canaria (CC), Cristina Valido, who explained that she would support Pedro Sánchez's investiture because that support obliges the new government to improve the financing of the Canary Islands and has warned that they will be demanding in compliance with the agreement or, otherwise, "we will be waiting for them on the way down."
"We will be waiting for them on the way down," warned the nationalist deputy Cristina Valido
"I will be a nuisance for many ministers," Valido warned in her response on the second day of the investiture debate, in which she said that she will send them the Statute of Autonomy and the Economic and Fiscal Regime so that "no one can say that they were distracted and that they do not remember" the rights of the Canary Islands.
She assured that CC will comply with loyalty "always" if Sánchez also does so and insisted that her support, from which the amnesty law is expressly excluded, responds to the needs and interests of her land.
"We are not here to help the right or the left achieve their objectives. We are here so that the Canarians are the ones who achieve theirs," she stressed.
The deputy has reaffirmed her commitment to full government for the Canary Islands, but has insisted that no one would forgive them for having lost resources and that it is necessary to "break corsets and strict rules" that "immobilize and are useless in this century."
In his response to the deputy, Sánchez thanked her for her yes to his investiture and said that it is a gesture that honors him in these moments of "so much overacting, hyperventilation and also exasperation."
He also valued her sincerity regarding the amnesty law, but said that "honestly" he believes that "it will be a positive step, as the pardons were in the past" and added that "with time" he hopes to be able to change the position of CC.
Sánchez has guaranteed that he will comply with the Canary Islands agenda, whose 25 points he assumes, and has stressed that the Government of the islands knows that, "despite the difficulties," it can count on a "cooperative and constructive collaboration" with the Government of Spain, also with respect to the migratory issue.