Canarian Coalition leaders rebel against supporting Sánchez while they govern with the PP

The PSOE has put Pedro Sánchez's investiture on track in the last few hours and everything seems to indicate that it will achieve the necessary majority in the first vote. It will do so thanks to having closed, after the pact with Junts and ERC, two agreements with the PNV and, on Friday, with the Canarian Coalition that significantly expand the parliamentary base that will give approval to a new coalition Executive formed by the socialists and Sumar.

However, the agreement between the PSOE and CC has generated serious turbulence within this last formation. Senior leaders of the party are suspicious of the understanding with Ferraz at a time when the socialists have come remarkably close to the demands of the independence movement..

Some internal divergences that were manifested in the meeting of the party's national executive in which the possible agreement was discussed, and that continue to emerge in this countdown towards Sánchez's investiture, scheduled for the end of next week.

Different voices from the party consulted by this newspaper report the different points of view existing within the Canarian nationalist formation on the pact with the PSOE in the conclave held to address the position regarding the investiture. They consider that it is not a good agreement for the party, but they abide by it because of the impact they hope the agreement with the PSOE will have on the archipelago for the next term in relation to the agenda of the Canary Islands, where CC governs in alliance with the PP.

A thesis that the party's Organization Secretary, David Toledo, already defended, asserting that the Canary Coalition would vote in favor in the investiture out of “responsibility” with the archipelago, despite being “opposed” to the amnesty: “Yes, we can change that the Canary Islands count for the State as one of the priorities in the next legislative agenda”.

But for other senior party officials, the pardon for the independentists is reason enough not to support Sánchez in his investiture.. For example, the mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, José Manuel Bermúdez, one of the most important institutional leaders of the Canarian nationalist party, assures in conversation with EL MUNDO that he will abide by “the agreements that the party determines in its bodies”, but remembers that His “personal position” is very clear and he has already expressed it: “It is a 'no' to the investiture of Don Pedro Sánchez”.

The Canarian PP, in profile

Sources familiar with the internal conversations of CC also assure that the former spokesperson in Congress Ana Oramas also does not share the “yes” to a Sánchez who has granted the amnesty.

In this sense, it must be remembered that the Canarian PP has been less incisive against the agreement between CC and the PSOE than some of the members of the nationalist formation itself.. The vice president of the island government and president of the Canarian PP, Manolo Domínguez, on Friday avoided criticizing Clavijo for giving his support to Sánchez despite the fact that the PP assures that all those who “launder” this agreement are responsible for it..

And Cuca Gamarra believes that supporting the investiture is “assuming that Spain does not have a democracy and is assuming that there has been a dirty war by the judges against the independentists, and that justice must be controlled.”