Canary Coalition offers to invest Sánchez even if he agrees with Junts: "We are not going to take into account who supports one thing or another"

After the recount of the foreign vote that has left the blocks of the right and left tied at 171 seats in Congress, the Canary Islands Coalition (CC) could have the key to the next Government. Its only representative, Cristina Valido, is willing to reach a “specific investiture agreement” with both the PP and the PSOE and draws legislature pacts that include Vox or Sumar as red lines.

Have you already set a date for a formal conversation with the two majority parties? We have had very brief telephone contacts, but no negotiations have started with either party. They should be the ones in a hurry and, in any case, I understand that they will be trying to close all the seats they need before reaching us. Are they going to give priority to the PSOE since it is the one with the best chance of adding a greater number? of support? We will sit down to talk with whoever is going to present himself to the investiture with the affairs of the Canary Islands on the table and our organization will decide based on who is most committed to the affairs of the Canary Islands. For you the legislature pacts with the ” extreme right” and with the “extreme left” are a 'red line'. Would it also be with Junts? No, in principle we only spoke of the extreme left and extreme right because it is the discourse that we have maintained since the regional elections and it is what we have said to our voters. And, in this sense, as long as there are no news important enough to internally reconsider our position, we maintain our speech. Not reaching a legislature agreement for not sharing governments participated by the extreme right or the extreme left does not mean that it prevents us from being able to speak or reach specific agreements, in this case for an investiture. We understand that it is a position of responsibility if it is in our hands to unlock a situation that is not beneficial for the country to go to new elections (…). Different is a legislature agreement. So, once the government is formed, if that government is participated by the parties that we have already expressed with whom we are not going to agree on anything or negotiate anything, then we would remain on the sidelines and, when the time came, If they need us to draw up some Budgets or to approve a law or for any question, it would be necessary to negotiate from scratch, of course. If in the end they support the PSOE in Congress, could there be a change of alliances in the Government of the Canary Islands, where they have a coalition with the PP? It wouldn't have to. We have already been governing the Canary Islands with the PP negotiating and reaching important agreements with the PSOE in Madrid and vice versa (…). We have always reached out to one another, we have supported governments of both colors. Within the differences, they have been closer to Sumar than to Vox. Would it be the same situation if it was Podemos who continued to lead that space on the left? Our proximity is not with the initials, but with some ideas. We do not share any ideas with Vox and in the case of Sumar we have supported the increase in the Minimum Wage, the updating of pensions and even in the first instance the law of only yes is yes, although later the deputy Ana Oramas apologized when she saw what had supposed and supported the PSOE in the modification. As for acronyms, in the case of the Canary Islands it was Podemos that in 2019 put the red line with CC and allied and supported all possible coalitions in all administrations to get CC out of the institutions. We don't share anything with the ultra-right, to begin with they don't respect autonomies, they want a centralized state. From there we have nothing more to talk about. Do you think that Sánchez has winked at them by saying that his majority “can also be extended to people who distanced themselves from the progressive government due to the fatigue of these hard years or as a consequence of the intense propaganda displayed by the duo PP and Vox”? Winks are not worth it to us, written agreements are worth it with matters that are important to the Canaries. What are they going to ask for in particular in exchange for Your support? Regardless of the Economic and Fiscal Regime, which is not being complied with and which means that the shopping cart is much more expensive in the Canary Islands than in the Peninsula (…), we have the right to co-manage and participate in the planning of our ports and airports (…); we continue without reviewing regional financing while our population has grown significantly, with 12 million tourists a year who make use of our public services (…); and the immigration situation must be addressed with clear agreements and important endowments to work in the face of the increasing arrival of cayucos. His predecessor, Ana Oramas, skipped her party's decision and voted against the investiture of Pedro Sánchez in 2020 instead of refrain. Could you do the same? I am going to do what my organization decides and what I vote by majority. I think that is what I have to do: respect the will of the bases and the affiliates who express themselves through their governing bodies.