The candidate of Sumar – Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista to the European elections, Lorena López, participated this Sunday in an event organized with the European Free Alliance (EFA) in the capital of Gran Canaria to defend the singularity of the European islands, specifically the Canarian Archipelago.
The candidate highlighted that “we are entering the last week of the electoral campaign, which is extremely important to continue emphasizing our project and our proposals to defend in Brussels the particularities of the Canary Islands, feminism, sustainability and human rights” and has appealed to the Canarian citizens “to go to the polls next Sunday, June 9, thinking about the needs of this land and democracy.”
Thus, López highlighted that “voting Sumar – Nueva Canarias is the useful vote of Canarian obedience, of democracy and progress, since the polls give us between 4 and 5 deputies who will defend in the European Parliament a broad Canarian program made here.”
“In contrast”, added the spokesperson, “voting for Coalición Canaria will only serve to continue betting on unlimited development that has been carried out for decades in our Archipelago and, in practice, to reinforce the deputy of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) who in these last 5 years has not defended the interests of the Canary Islands, since Mr. Alonso and his political formation will not obtain representation in Brussels.”
“Therefore”, she continued, “we make a call to the progressive and moderate voter of Coalición Canaria who defends democratic values and rejects alignment with the hard right of the PP, Vox and UPN so that next June 9 they choose Sumar – Nueva Canarias, an alliance made up of diverse territorial parties that understands the singularities of the peoples that make up the State.”
López has participated in the EFA event, which revolved around the ‘Island Status’ defended by this alliance, which has a specific program for island territories and the outermost regions of the European Union. During the event, which also included the national president of NC-bc, Román Rodríguez, the president of the EFA, Lorena López Lacalle, and the ‘spitzenkandidaten’ of the EFA for the European Commission, Maylis Rossberg, they spoke about the importance of the upcoming European elections.
In this sense, the speakers highlighted the need to vote in these elections for territorial and ethnic minority formations of the plurinational States of the European Union, highlighting that their presence in Brussels will influence the public policies of their territories, as well as the configuration of the parliamentary groups and the government of the Union itself.
