The next president of the Community assured that the agreement "is not going to change the disposition" of Coalición Canaria to reach agreements with the PSOE, although he accused Zapatero of making "a blackmail to the Canary Islands" with the Statute

Rajoy and Soria sign in Madrid the agreement by which CC will preside over the Government through Paulino Rivero

The national president of the Popular Party, Mariano Rajoy; the one of this formation in the Canary Islands, José Manuel Soria; and the one of Coalición Canaria, signed this Wednesday in a Congress hall of ...

July 4 2007 (15:53 WEST)
Rajoy and Soria sign in Madrid the agreement by which CC will preside over the Government through Paulino Rivero
Rajoy and Soria sign in Madrid the agreement by which CC will preside over the Government through Paulino Rivero

The national president of the Popular Party, Mariano Rajoy; the one of this formation in the Canary Islands, José Manuel Soria; and the one of Coalición Canaria, signed this Wednesday in a Congress hall of Deputies the agreement by which the last of them will be invested next week as president of the Autonomous Community.

After the signing of the 84-page programmatic agreement, both Soria and Rivero agreed that the agreement "is good" for the Canary Islands and "will improve the conditions" in which the citizens of the Islands live, highlighting the future regional president the actions in health, education or housing.

Rivero assured that the agreement "is not going to change the disposition" of Coalición Canaria to reach agreements with the PSOE, at the same time that he considered that "the one that seems to have changed" has been this party and the president of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, with "not very encouraging" statements about the approval of the reform of the Statute of Autonomy.

In this sense, he described as "a kind of blackmail to the Canary Islands" the differentiation that he established between the reform in the Islands and in Castilla- la Mancha and Castilla y León, at the same time that he considered that the amendments presented by the PSOE to the text "ruin its essence".

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