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CC and PP Highlight Differences in Fuerteventura and La Palma

Government partners in the Canary Islands, the nationalist and popular parties exchange accusations and distance themselves on the islands.

Generic image of two hands shaking over a desk with blurred political documents, symbolizing a tense alliance.
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Generic image of two hands shaking over a desk with blurred political documents, symbolizing a tense alliance.

The parties forming the Government of the Canary Islands, Coalición Canaria (CC) and the Popular Party (PP), have shown internal tensions with exchanges of accusations in Fuerteventura and La Palma.

Jéssica de León (PP), Minister of Tourism and Employment of the Government of the Canary Islands, has publicly criticized Coalición Canaria, accusing it of "dividing" the inhabitants of Fuerteventura. According to De León, the nationalists are pitting majoreros from the north against those from the south of the island to maintain the status quo.
De León believes that the controversy surrounding the energy future of Fuerteventura and the power plant of El Charco is being used by CC as an "attack" on the island's PP. She points out that the Minister of Ecological Transition, Mariano Hernández Zapata (PP), has achieved in three years what CC could not in 40. The minister also holds the president of CC and the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, responsible, stating that CC "has dropped its mask".
The friction between CC and PP is not limited to Fuerteventura. In La Palma, mutual accusations have been made regarding an alleged "theft" of ideas concerning holiday rentals.
At the end of April, the Popular Parliamentary Group announced it would defend an amendment to guarantee that owners of holiday homes destroyed by the 2021 volcanic eruption in La Palma would recover their rights, exempting them from the minimum period of ownership required by the new law.
In response, CC in La Palma accused the PP of "appropriating" an amendment from the Cabildo of La Palma to gain "political credit." They described the press release from the popular deputy Raquel Díaz, announcing as her own a proposal negotiated by the president of the Cabildo of La Palma, Sergio Rodríguez (CC), with the Ministry of Tourism of the Government of the Canary Islands, as "surprising."
Sergio Rodríguez lamented that the La Palma PP, "which has been so quick to appropriate work in which they have not participated," does not dedicate its efforts to ensuring that the Ministry of Tourism, managed by "their own party colleagues," understands the "singularities of La Palma and the rest of the Green Islands."

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