Fernando Clavijo, president of the Canary Islands, said the archipelago, located off the west coast of Africa, should “in no case” have the same time zone as the mainland.
The Canary Island Government revealed their initial evaluation of the repercussions of a change of time zone in the region.
Mr Clavijo said the Autonomous Community plans urged the Spanish Government to take into account their views before making a decision on that matter.
He said: “We are going to ask the Government of Spain, which has created a committee of experts, for the Canary Islands to be present in it since we are the only autonomous community that has a different time to the peninsula.”
The president also insisted that his executive cabinet is in favour of not having the same time zone as the rest of the country because “in no case we consider that, being in different time zones, we have to maintain the same time zone as the peninsula”.
Jean-Claude Juncker announced that he wanted to overturn the time change in the EU between winter and summer time.
And speaking in the Nigerian capital of Abuja about an online survey by the European Commission on the proposal, Angela Merkel also spoke in favour of the EU time proposal.
The German Chancellor said: “I am pleased if the EU Commission takes this vote seriously. If you’ve done it that way, then something should also follow it.
“Personally, I would give it a very high priority.”
The overwhelming majority of citizens in the EU voted in favour of stopping the changeover in time.
But a legislative proposal of the authority would still have to be approved by the EU parliament and member states.
Referring to the ongoing Commission meeting, Mr Juncker said: “This is what the people want, this is what we’ll do.”
Three million of the 4.6million responses were said to have come from Germany.
People from all 28 member states participated.
The majority wanted summer time throughout the year.