The Canarian nationalists do not throw in the towel and want to add the strength of their only deputy in Congress, Cristina Valido, to that of the five that the PNV has to get the Table, which is elected this Thursday and whose composition is still unknown , reflect the “plurality” of Spain, reserving if not the presidency, as proposed by the Canarian president, Fernando Clavijo, in a recent interview in La Vanguardia, at least one vice-presidency for a representative of the hundred-year-old Basque formation.
This was reiterated on Tuesday by the leader of the Canary Islands Coalition, who has stated that a presidency or vice-presidency of the Chamber in the hands of Basque nationalism would be a “solution” for the current Spanish political situation, marked by a tie between the blocks that lead the PSOE and Sumar on the one hand and the PP, with the acquiescence of Vox, on the other. In this way, Clavijo maintains, the “plurality” of the State would be reflected in the Cortes in a formula that he sees as applicable to governability.
After attending the institutional acts to celebrate the festivities in honor of the Virgin of Candelaria, the president of the Canary Islands stressed that the proposal launched by his party “reflects the will” expressed at the polls, “gives stability and unblocks” the panorama politician after the elections of 23-J.
“It will be others who will have to make decisions, it is not up to us,” Clavijo added in view of the rejection that his proposal has aroused in most political formations, mainly the PSOE, as the majority party of the coalition of progress, and the PP, which does not look favorably on ceding the presidency to the PNV so as not to complicate the support of Vox.
In any case, the Canarian Coalition understands that those who disdain its proposal will definitely have to “respond to the public” and that an agreement with the PNV and CC could provide the future government of Spain with “stability”, in addition to breaking with the dynamics of ” those two Spains” traditionally opposed.
“Not everything is blue and red. There is a third Spain, a nationalist Spain”, has proclaimed Clavijo, who has vindicated himself as “representative of that third Spain” of the peripheral regions with their own culture or differentiated from that of strict Castilian matrix.
In this sense, the Canarian president, who governs in coalition with the PP, has insisted that “the two blocks” that came out of the polls on July 23 “do not add up alone” and they have to seek the support of nationalist or pro-independence forces to govern. It is not time for “tacticism”, but to put the interests of citizens “above” at a time when the Canary Islands, he has stressed, “need the State and a stable government that is capable of responding to problems”.
“They have to sit down to talk and be generous”, Clavijo has prescribed, who, asked about his preferences to reach a possible pact, has limited himself to defending his initial approach: “We are making a proposal that includes that plurality in the Table. They are others who have to pick up the gauntlet”.
