The Canarian Nationalist Party (PNC) has explained on Thursday the reasons why it has decided to break its alliance with the Canarian Coalition (CC) and has announced that it is already working to attend the regional and municipal elections on May 28 alone, because they consider that CC has shown that they no longer have "anything" of nationalism.

This was stated by the national president of the PNC, Francisco Martín Espinosa, who appeared at a press conference with the general secretary of training in Tenerife, Antonio Escuela, and the councilor of the City of La Laguna Cristina Darias.

Francisco Martín Espinosa explained that the break with the Canarian Coalition has been "debated and consensual" within the party and was approved unanimously in its Federal Political Council, the highest body between congresses, and was transmitted on March 24 to the national secretary general of CC, Fernando Clavijo.

From there they have begun to prepare all the necessary documentation to be able to attend the elections of May 28 alone, as he recalled that the Canarian Nationalist Party was one of the co-founding parties of the Canary Coalition, a federation that, in his opinion, "has been distorted with the passage of time" and has been "impossible" to recover.

The national president of the PNC pointed out that the "drop that has overflowed the glass" has been the position of the Coalition regarding the Canary Islands "being manufactured from the islands", which means "going back thirty years to the era of insularism" and "dividing 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 Canarian Coalition "has gone down the path of the right" and made it clear that the PNC is not willing "to participate or collaborate with a misleading message." "To the Canarian people we must tell 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". He also advocated a "more sustainable" Canary Islands and away from "excessive" growth; a Canary Islands that has to be "at the height of a sovereign people".

"Sovereign people"

He also admitted that the decision to break with CC and run alone in the next elections is an "arduous struggle" but made it clear that things are achieved "with enthusiasm and desire, which is what the PNC has." "I will continue to dream 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 so much difference; What you have to do is an effort to add up."

The Canarian Nationalist Party is not closed, even, to reach agreements with the bases of the Canarian Coalition, but for this they must try to "change the dome" of the party, because they consider that it is not acceptable that the PNC "parks" its ideology "for a few stalls or a little dream" to be "in the shadow" of a political formation that, according to Martín Espinosa there is "nothing nationalist" anymore.

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