Cristina Valido, the CC-Primero Canarias candidate for the Congress of Deputies representing Santa Cruz de Tenerife, defended her political stance on Thursday as an opportunity «to escape the clamour from both the right and the left», because it is a matter of voting «for the Canary Islands and with the Canary Islands in mind».
At the symbolic event marking the start of the election campaign for the 29 November elections, Valido said that her cause is that of «thousands and thousands of Canarians» who want to escape «the insults, the disparaging remarks; the ‚you out so I can in‘ mentality; and voting ‚to get rid of this one‘ or ‚we have to vote to get rid of the other one'».
«We are not voting against anyone because the Canary Islands vote for the Canary Islands,» added the candidate, who called for «the recruitment of thousands of nationalists who, from La Graciosa to La Restinga, are waiting with the hope that nationalism will unite once again after 20 years to restore this region’s influence in the Congress and the Senate».
Cristina Valido: More nationalist votes for 15 seats
On 29 November, the Canary Islands will elect the people who will fill its 15 seats in Congress, and what will no longer happen, the candidate continued, is that «14 of them will be filled by people who will do whatever their bosses on the mainland tell them to do, for whom the Canary Islands are not a priority».
Those 14 seats «which have been held by people nobody knows today, after a whole parliamentary term, must be filled by far more nationalist voices», and this is the raison d’être of CC, said Valido, who criticised «what suits the mainland parties so well: men and women elected in the Canary Islands who take up a seat and don’t make a fuss, don’t cause trouble, don’t speak out, don’t complain and vote however they are told to».
«That is going to come to an end because it amounts to silencing a region that has many reasons to protest,» and CC-Primero Canarias will do so under the slogan «Defend the Canary Islands» «so that we are heard and respected», concluded Cristina Valido.
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