An alliance between CC and Nueva Canarias (NC) in the south of Gran Canaria would place the local leader of NC in San Bartolomé de Tirajana as number three and, therefore, this is what currently holds back the rapprochement between these two formations to carry out the first test on the island of a union of agendas of Canarian nationalism after the NC congress in the summer of 2025. If the pact is made without trauma, CC and NC would have the same block of 12 councillors in a town council made up of 25 councillors. Currently, AV-PP has seven councillors as CC, adding up to 14. The absolute majority is 13 councillors.
In CC, the people who are most opposed to an agreement with NC are the island leader Pablo Rodríguez and his deputy Fernández Pérez. At the top of CC in Gran Canaria, power is complemented by Alejandro Marichal, head of the nationalist party in San Bartolomé de Tirajana. Currently, NC in San Bartolomé de Tirajana has five councillors: Samuel Henríquez Quintana, Mercedes Díaz Melián, Vicente Herrera Abrante, Juan Lorenzo Campos Pineda and Esmeralda Martín Zerpa. The reform also provides for the introduction of the zipper lists for the election of councillors in councils such as that of Gran Canaria, an area in which, until now, the LOREG did not provide for any specific measure.
CC, according to sources consulted by Maspalomas24H, would ask for the first two places on the list and so on two by two or as agreed, in the event of an agreement between both formations. The open-minded sector of NC expects "prudence" on the part of Henríquez and last week the mayor of Gáldar and leader of the revolt of municipal leaders against immobility, Teodoro Sosa, visited. In Tirajana NC has an association agreement with Hablemos Ahora, formed by former leaders of Unidos por Gran Canaria.
Last August, the Cortes Generales approved a new reform of Organic Law 5/1985, of June 19, on the general electoral regime (LOREG), which introduces the obligation for candidates for municipal, regional, general and European elections to present “zipper lists”. These lists are distinguished by the fact that they alternate between female and male candidates, guaranteeing, in practice, full parity on the electoral lists.
Until now, the LOREG, through its article 44 bis, only required candidates to form their electoral lists in such a way that neither sex achieved a representation of less than 40% or more than 60%. The introduction of this rule, in 2007, meant a notable reinforcement of the participation of women in the electoral processes in the Canary Islands, where this was deficient. However, despite the fact that the law also requires candidates to respect these proportions in each section of five candidates, in practice there has been a significant divergence between the percentage of women candidates and women elected. The introduction of the obligation to present zip lists, in addition to guaranteeing strict parity in the electoral lists, will also guarantee the election of a greater number of women, so that the composition of the elected chambers in future legislatures tends to full parity.
