The Canarian Nationalist Party (PNC) has explained today, Thursday, the reasons why it has decided to break its alliance with the Canary Islands Coalition (CC) and has announced that it is already working to contest the regional and municipal elections on May 28 alone, since they consider that CC has shown that they no longer have “nothing” of nationalism left.
This was stated by the national president of the PNC, Francisco Martín Espinosa, who appeared at a press conference together with the general secretary of the training in Tenerife, Antonio Escuela, and the councilor of the La Laguna City Council, Cristina Darias.
Francisco Martín Espinosa explained that the break with the Canary Islands Coalition has been “debated and agreed upon” within the party and was unanimously approved by its Federal Political Council, the highest body between congresses, and was transmitted on March 24 to the national general secretary of CC , Fernando Clavijo.
From there they have begun to prepare all the necessary documentation to be able to run alone in the elections on May 28, as he recalled that the Canarian Nationalist Party was one of the co-founding parties of the Canarian Coalition, a federation that, in his opinion, “It has been distorted over time” and it has been “impossible” to recover.
The national president of the PNC pointed out that the “last straw that broke the camel’s back” has been the position of the Coalition regarding the fact that the Canary Islands “are manufactured from the islands”, which means “going back thirty years to the era of insularisms” and ” divide the islands again. Espinosa stressed that a nationalist party has to see the Canary Islands “as a whole”, which has always been the objective of the PNC, he added.
Martín Espinosa pointed out that the Canary Islands Coalition “has gone down the path to the right” and made it clear that the PNC is not willing “neither to participate nor to collaborate with a misleading message.” “The people of the Canary Islands must be told the truth and remove the veil that some have tried to put on,” he said.
Martín Espinosa stressed that the Canary Islands have to consider a “strong” nationalist project where the “buoyant” economy generated by the tourism sector compensates other sectors that are “devalued”. Likewise, he advocated for a “more sustainable” Canary Islands and away from “excessive” growth; a Canary Islands that has to be “at the level of a sovereign people”.
He also admitted that the decision to break with CC and run alone in the next elections is an “arduous fight” but made it clear that things are achieved “with enthusiasm and desire, which is what the PNC has.” “I will continue dreaming of seeing a sovereign people,” he added.
The PNC does not rule out opening negotiations with other nationalist parties such as Nueva Canarias. “We are open to any nationalist force as long as they share our ideology,” said Francisco Martín Espinosa, who clarified that among the nationalist parties “there is not that much difference; what must be done is an effort to add up.”
The Canarian Nationalist Party is not even close to reaching agreements with the bases of the Canarian Coalition, but for this they must try to “change the leadership” of the party, since they consider that it is not acceptable for the PNC to “park” its ideology ” for a few jobs or a small salary” to be “in the shadow” of a political formation that, according to Martín Espinosa, no longer has “anything nationalist”.
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