“He doesn’t bring in votes.” That assessment came from a member of the PSOE’s regional executive. The formation of the PSOE’s electoral lists for the Congress of Deputies in the province of Las Palmas has definitively closed the door on the inclusion of Puertos del Estado President Gustavo Santana Hernández on the slate headed into the general election on November 29. The PSOE leadership has definitively ruled out the inclusion of Puertos del Estado President Gustavo Santana on the electoral slate for the Congress of Deputies in the province of Las Palmas.
The Socialist candidacy in the eastern province will be headed by Dolores Corujo and Luc André Diouf, followed in third and fourth place by Vanesa Cabrera and Pedro Sosa, according to the proposal approved by the party’s Executive Commission and Regional Committee under the leadership of Secretary-General Ángel Víctor Torres. The decision rules out Santana’s move into active parliamentary politics and strengthens his institutional role in Madrid at the helm of the public body that regulates the state port system.
The official version is that Gustavo Santana’s exclusion from the Congress list—along with the configuration of the island’s Senate candidacy for Gran Canaria, where the PSOE has opted for Juan Jesús Facundo and Marta Saavedra—is the result of the need to preserve stability at the top of the body responsible for coordinating the 28 port authorities of general interest. The continued presence of the Fuerteventura official as president of Puertos del Estado avoids a scenario of interim leadership at a decisive moment for the implementation of decarbonization projects, at least until one month after the election, unless Oscar Puente remains in charge of that portfolio.
The agreement on the lists reached in the Canary Islands—which is completed in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife with Congress candidacies led by José Antonio Valbuena and Marta Arocha, alongside Sergio Matos and Teresa Gutiérrez—will be ratified by the Federal List Committee and the Federal Committee in Fuenlabrada. The ratification of the Socialist electoral map clears up uncertainty over port governance, ensuring direct communication among the Ministry of Transport, the presidents of the Canary Islands’ port authorities and operators in the maritime and fishing sectors.
Gustavo Santana left off PSOE’s Las Palmas lists and, for now, remains at the helm of Puertos del Estado was first published on canarymaritime.com.
