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The general secretary of the Tenerife socialists, José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga, does not see a regional government pact between the Canarian Coalition (CC) and PSOE, nor an agreement at the state level. Fraga said yesterday that the socialists are the progressive alternative for the 2007 elections to solve the problems in which the Islands are immersed.
However, Rodríguez Fraga did not want to comment on the socialist candidate who could lead that change in the Canary Islands. Of the two possible PSC candidates for the presidency of the Canarian Government in 2007 - Jerónimo Saavedra (president of the PSC-PSOE) and Juan Carlos Alemán (general secretary of the Canarian socialists) - he said that they would be "magnificent candidates", but he did not opt for either. What he did point out is that he had not considered presenting his candidacy.
The socialist leader made these statements at a press conference in which he highlighted the participation of the President of the State Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, in a party event, which will be held tomorrow in La Laguna, with which the Tenerife socialists begin the new political year, which will have sustainability, health policy and social and territorial cohesion as its fundamental axes.
The new stage will be based on the same arguments that Zapatero uses to develop his government work and that focus on dialogue as a way to solve problems. Thus, the Tenerife socialists want to avoid the "insults and tension" used by the Popular Party (PP) to make opposition and are committed to a "calm and unhurried change, but with firmness and determination", said Fraga.
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Fraga was accompanied at the informative event by the mayor of Buenavista, Aurelio Abreu, and the deputy secretary of the Tenerife socialists, José Manuel Corrales. The latter considered the social and political model of the nationalists, "which CC recognizes", to be "exhausted", and advocated sustaining the new socialist leadership on the same principles that Zapatero promotes in Spain: "Good disposition, respect for the adversary, search for consensus, transparency in public action and fulfillment of the given word".
