It finally happened! I'm referring to Ángel Víctor. And with him, it's assumed, what he claims to be and is called PSC-PSOE.
They hadn't jumped until now, despite the endless chain of betrayals, contempt, mockery, teases... from Clavijo and his gang that have been happening since 2015 when the leadership of the PSC-PSOE decided to hand over the presidency of the Government to a battered Coalición Canaria, third in votes (although first in seats, after the votes passed through the electoral system's hopper).
The official leaders of the PSC-PSOE "touched power". And some factual leaders, influence.
Why, when the socialists were thrown from the windows of the vice-presidency and the ministries, it didn't prevent them from reappearing, without interruption, begging Clavijo for alms. Why, when the refusal to agree in the Santa Cruz City Council, in Puerto de La Cruz, the motion of censure in Granadilla, the outrageous attempts to do the same in Arona, the dismissal of Javier Abreu in La Laguna? No, and now Yes?
Firstly, for an obvious reason: when Coalición Canaria seeks a partner to agree with (whether it's PP or PSOE), they distribute positions and island territories. Positions are rather few, because it's in the script that Coalición takes the lion's share. And territories because Tenerife-La Palma are untouchable for these exotic islanders, self-proclaimed nationalists.
And because Gran Canaria and its institutions become an indigenous reserve where ATI allows its occasional partners to frolic.
This reality is so internalized by the representatives of these rock-strewn lands of the PSOE and the PP --or vice versa-- as their willingness to pay the bill on the Island of Tenerife. And so, legislature after legislature.
It's sad to see how the leadership of a PSC-PSOE that embodied the autonomist will, the commitment to ensure that this Archipelago and the Canarian people were something more than a swarm of island tribes and to make real what the misleading official propaganda calls "one people", has been naturally involved in this concoction for too long now.
And, secondly, a hypothesis: they have jumped now, when Clavijo again offers the PP --he already did it last year-- the Port Authority of Las Palmas as a commitment ring, because the Port Authority of Las Palmas seems to be something more than an Institution. Something like an epicenter of influences and economic activity so important for a certain section of businesses, whose limits (of the section and of the businesses) and whose beneficiaries are not very well known where they begin and where they end. But, from what it seems, it shouldn't be too far from the leadership of the PSC-PSOE. Because Ángel Víctor has jumped now, as if they had put gasoline on their asses. Only now and immediately. Never until now, despite everything.
By Santiago Pérez