He will current himself because the chief of ‘Proyecto Drago’, a company that seeks the confluence of extra political teams. The Supreme Court sentenced him to a month and a half in jail for an alleged crime of attacking brokers of the authority. of unity within the Canary Islands and it’s Rodríguez who should be part of
He has additionally expressed that his undertaking is prepared to attempt with different leftist formations and social teams in an effort to configure a unity candidacy, for which there are already open conversations.
Alberto Rodríguez has indicated in a press release that for greater than a yr he has met with associations and teams from everywhere in the archipelago to evaluate the sentiments of residents in relation to the primary issues they’ve raised and the potential of dealing with them from the social and in addition from the establishments.
Alberto Rodríguez, the results of a collective determination in house, proclaims his candidacy for the presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands for the archipelago checklist for the May 2023 elections. pic.twitter.com/X2qwh2WeEo
– Drago Project (@proyecto_drago) December 19, 2022
Rodríguez outlined the Drago Project as “a sociopolitical device of Canarian obedience, transformative, courageous, sovereign, with out ties, of progress, confederal; an instrument with the dedication to advertise a very new Canarian coverage.” The head of the checklist has influenced that each Proyecto Drago and he’ll make themselves out there to what the canaries determine subsequent May. “We will do it with out rancor and with the the Aristocracy that Canarian society has at all times displayed,” he stated.
“I cannot disguise myself in an inventory that provides me safety”
He has additionally indicated that he’s presenting himself “with out complexes” to the following elections to the Parliament of the Canary Islands and that he accepts the “dedication” that many individuals threw at him (each inside and outdoors our house), which is none aside from to prime the checklist autonomous group as a candidate for the Government of the Canary Islands.
“I cannot cowl myself behind an insular checklist that provides me safety; our undertaking desires to be a pressure within the Canary Islands and its candidate may even be so in every one of many Islands,” stated Rodríguez.
In the identical manner, he additionally introduced that the intention of Proyecto Drago is “to divulge heart’s contents to the confluence with all these political and social areas within the Canary Islands whose aims might be reconciled in an electoral proposal that’s selected the islands and that aren’t afraid of change the event mannequin” of the Canary Islands.
In this sense, he confirmed that there are already and will likely be opened as many conversations as are essential to attempt to attain an settlement relating to the island lists with the Parliament of the Canary Islands, with the Cabildos and no less than with essentially the most populated cities within the Canary Islands. “Proyecto Drago respects and values the work developed by many organizations and teams, whether or not or not they presently have illustration within the establishments,” he stated. The case of the Canary Islands is singular within the means of reconfiguration of the left, since there’s a occasion desk by which Podemos and IU take part with a view to forming a broad candidacy to the left of the PSOE.
Sources from the confederal house have already made it clear that, relying on its consequence, it is going to be seen how the connection with the Drago undertaking is established, though sectors of United We Can acknowledge the electoral pull that the previous deputy has in Congress.
The request made by United We Can
From United We Can, it has claimed that its chief and vice chairman within the Government of the Canary Islands, Noemí Santana, is the particular person referred to as to “lead” the formation of a unity candidacy on the left for the following May elections and, consequently, has summoned to the ex-deputy in Congress Alberto Rodríguez to combine into the house that’s now championed by Podemos.
This has been indicated by the co-spokesman of the purple formation, Pablo Fernández, after studying that Rodríguez has communicated this Monday his “irrevocable” determination to go the checklist for the May elections of the ‘Drago’ undertaking, and that he’s prepared to attempt with different formations a broad confluence. Moreover, he has argued that it’s as much as his occasion to direct the preparation of a “plural” candidacy, as a result of they’re current within the regional parliament and are those which might be a part of the Government, finishing up essentially the most excellent progressive measures within the archipelago such because the Citizenship Income of the Canary Islands
And it’s that, because the co-spokesman of Podemos has reasoned, it doesn’t appear logical {that a} new political undertaking of latest creation, which has simply emerged “virtually out of nowhere” and which is extra-parliamentary, is the one which instructions a candidacy for unity on the left of the PSOE.
His seat stays empty in Congress.
The seat that corresponded to Rodríguez in Congress has been empty for greater than a yr, with no forecast that the emptiness will likely be crammed.
It was on October 22 of final yr when the president of Congress, Meritxell Batet, knowledgeable the previous parliamentarian that she was withdrawing his parliamentary credentials, alluding to the execution of the Supreme Court ruling that sentenced him to a month and a half in jail (replaceable by paying of a fantastic) for against the law of attacking brokers of the authority and disqualification for passive suffrage.
As a consequence, the previous parliamentarian requested safety from the Constitutional Court towards the choice to withdraw the document for violation of his elementary rights, an attraction that the assure physique admitted and final July the Prosecutor’s Office was in favor of giving him safety, thereby opening the door that it could possibly be returned to him, however he advocated denying it in relation to the sentence.
Rodríguez left the purple formation after confirming the withdrawal of his seat and criticized that he had not been supported extra within the face of that unfair determination. Even in February, he accused Unidas Podemos buildings of “attacking” him and “blaming” him for retaining his seat in Congress vacant, along with urgent for a substitute to be appointed quickly.