The president of the Popular Party of the Canary Islands and vice-president of the regional government, José Manuel Soria, warned the PSOE this Tuesday not to think that "it is their opportunity" to replace his party in the government pact that it maintains with CC.
Soria was referring to the controversy raised by the incorporation of sovereignist theses in the ideological paper that CC approved at its Congress this weekend.
For the leader of the Canary 'popular' party, this fact, "as far as the government pact is concerned, has not the slightest significance", so he assured that "it is not going to affect in any way the pact" that they maintain with the nationalists.
For this reason, he questioned "the principles" of the deputy secretary general of the PSOE, José Blanco, when asking the PP to break its alliance with CC: "what kind of lesson on principles can he give when he is asking, begging, begging CC to break the government pact in the Canary Islands simply so that the PSOE can replace the PP". "Those are Groucho Marx's principles," he said.
In this sense, he said that "we already know that the PSOE is willing to swallow whatever it is, it does so in Galicia, Catalonia and it is doing so in the Basque Country", but the moment for the socialists to govern in the Canary Islands "has not arrived and it will take time".
With regard to the criticisms in the same sense that he has received from the popular Alejo Vidal-Quadras, he stressed that "he is one of the great values of the PP", but "he lacks some more knowledge of what the Canary Islands are, what CC is and what the relationship between CC and PP is", since, he insisted, "nothing of what is raised in that paper on sovereignty is raised in the government pact".
ACN Press