The Canary Islands Confederation of Employers doesn't get involved in politics, but it does not push messages about the "historic opportunity" to recover the island's political center on the island of Gran Canaria "so as not to repeat the mistakes of an uninformed left-wing CC," which has reduced the party on the island to a vehicle that doesn't function without the support of the Tenerife branch of CC. Bueno's possibility of becoming a central factor within the new nationalism—as a "hinge" figure between business interests, critical municipalism, and identity-based autonomism—will depend as much on his personal will as on the recomposition of alliances within the Canary Islands' center-right. On that playing field, the employers' association seems to want to make a move.
"What we've told Fernando Clavijo is to take matters into account. The mess the people of Nueva Canarias are having is one thing, and the CC issue on the island is another. They're different things. Those who have left NC are in their own world, and this can't pervert or reverse the progress that has been made with CC. This NC issue is going to end up in court, and CC's agenda is different. It can't arrive at the Electoral Board in 2027 with an internal crisis," stated a leader of the CCE in Las Palmas.
In Gran Canaria, the CC members are Unidos por Gran Canaria (United for Gran Canaria) led by Lucas Bravo from Laguna, Ciuca (Telde), and Juntos por Mogán. Unidos por Gran Canaria controls some directorates-general and the Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands Government. "This situation needs to be clarified before September because, if there's no agreement, we have to rewind. This NC issue is on the way to a lawsuit," a source from the Las Palmas CCE leadership told Maspalomas24H.
"For us, there is no doubt that the current mayor of Mogán, with a so-called hybrid political profile and a strong local presence, is the figure capable of uniting different sensibilities in a period marked by fragmentation and the exhaustion of traditional leadership," the same source from the Las Palmas CCE told Maspalomas24H.
Sources close to the business community link this strategy to the need to rebuild a political space capable of stable dialogue in the face of the archipelago's major economic challenges: tourism dependence, the energy transition, the demographic challenge, and island rebalancing. In this scenario, Bueno's figure—pragmatic, with institutional experience, and removed from the most ideological discourses—would fit a profile of innovative leadership that aspires to connect with broader segments of the electorate. Although the southern leader has not yet given public signs of wanting to play a role beyond the municipal level, her name has begun to circulate in strategic conversations, especially after the decline suffered by traditional CC leaders on islands such as Tenerife and La Palma.
