The chairman of the Canary Islands Government, Paulino Rivero, avoided talking yesterday in the full Parliament in recognition of the archipelago as a Commonwealth, but defended an area of competence different from Basques and Catalans. He said that the Constitution is "a long way to further this idea."

The chairman of the Canary Islands Government, Paulino Rivero, yesterday demanded a special status for the Canaries archipelago, throughout the Spanish State, including a more competitive level than that of the Basques and Catalans.

This was stated by the chief executive, after a question from PSC-PSO, in which he asked to express their views on the proposal that the Canaries is a Commonwealth, raised by several leaders of Canary Coalition (CC), They Mayor Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Miguel Zerolo, and the president of the Cabildo of El Hierro, Tomas Padron.

In this regard, the chairman of the regional government defended more powers to the archipelago as the delimitation of the archipelago waters, control of ports and airports and relations with the countries of the environment.

Previously, the president of the Socialist parliamentary group, Francisco Hernandez Spínola, had drawn attention to the seriousness of the statements made by Miguel Zerolo and Tomas Padron, among others, on the possibility that Canary is a state free partner.

Spínola regretted that Rivero was "quite important" to these manifestations and stressed that "it is not how well the canaries expect a reaction from the president of the Government because this is a serious matter that does not accept any vagaries.