The candidate of Coalición Canaria (CC) for the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands, Paulino Rivero, this morning called on citizens to go to the polls "massively" today, after casting his vote, at 10:30 a.m., at the Electoral College installed in the El Sauzal Shopping Center, in the North of Tenerife, where he resides.
Rivero expressed his confidence that "there will be maximum participation, because we are gambling with the local, island and Canary Island governments" and the tranquility that citizens "will wisely decide which governments they want and this is very important for the present and future of our land".
Faced with the "illusion" that he claimed to have for running for the Presidency of the Autonomous Government for the first time, the candidate did not hide feeling "a bitter taste" for voting for the first time without being mayor or running to preside over the City Council "of my town, from which I have always had so many expressions of affection".
After exercising his right, Rivero declared that he was going to play a futsal match, visit his brother, who is ill, and have lunch with his family, before moving to the CC campaign headquarters, where he will wait with the rest of the nationalist candidates to know the results of the polls.
CARDBOARD COVERAGE OF THE CANARY ISLANDS WORKERS
Upon his arrival at the polling station, Rivero was "greeted" by half a hundred striking workers from Televisión Canaria, who staged a sympathetic protest, in which they parodied, with cardboard microphones and cameras, the news coverage that they have not carried out today.
Regarding this unusual event and the suspension of news programs since Thursday, Rivero confessed to being "frustrated, because specifically I feel like one of the architects of the fact that today TV Canaria is a reality and therefore, anything that affects its workers or its objective of informing the citizens of all the Canary Islands is frustrating".
Thus, he assured that "it is not a satisfactory day for me in that sense, because I have bet a lot on having media from the Canary Islands", although, at all times he was "very respectful with the protest of the workers of TV Canaria, because the right to strike is enshrined in the Spanish Constitution". In this way, he collaborated with the striking reporters, answered their questions and finally approached to talk with them and convey his wishes that "the conflict be resolved as soon as possible".
ACN Press
