The councilors of Coalición Canaria abandoned the Plenary Session of the Cabildo this Monday during the point in which a report from the secretary of the Corporation was being debated, which warns that the party did not comply with the legal procedures to expel Juan Manuel Sosa from its group.
“Coalition Canaria is still determined that the will of Pedro San Ginés prevail over the norm, as was customary during his presidency, but that era is over,” warned the president, María Dolores Corujo, who reminded him of the trial he has pending for the seizure of the Montaña Roja desalination plant and the new procedure he will face for payments to the lawyer Ignacio Calatayud; and has even spoken now of a campaign of “infamy” against Sosa by CC.
In addition, she has stressed that the councilor has been in the government group for almost a year and a half, and until last May the nationalists did not take any steps to expel him from their group. “CC has kept him in its ranks because it has been good for them. It has allowed them to dream of a hypothetical motion of censure”, Corujo pointed out, who considers that the new attitude of CC is due to the fact that they have not seen their intentions fulfilled.
“Not everything is valid in politics. Lying is not valid, harassment is not valid, threats are not valid in seeking to twist the will of a public official. It is not valid to question the reports of officials when they are not interested in the content of the same,” she stated.
“No one questions the right of Coalición Canaria to expel any member of its group, in the event that there are reasons for it. What the secretary's report-proposal indicates is that the procedure has not been respected, something that they had already been warned about,” added the president, who has also defended this official with national qualification, whose report has been questioned by CC.
CC questions the secretary's report
In that report, the secretary concludes that Sosa is still a member attached to the CC-PNC group, because the mandatory requirements for his expulsion were not met, and sets out the steps that must be taken to do so.
In this regard, the current titular spokesperson for the group, Samuel Martín, has ended up confirming that they will initiate the “procedure” marked by the official. “Let Sosa be notified of the expulsion and that within 24 hours, if he wants, he can present some type of allegation,” he pointed out just before leaving the session together with the rest of his colleagues, while the debate on this point continued.
Before, Martín had dedicated his intervention to questioning the conclusions of that report from the secretary, alleging that there were "a series of data" missing that they consider "important", and emphasizing that they had even asked for it to be removed from the agenda. However, both the government group and the Lanzarote en Pie - Sí Podemos group have voted against this proposal. "We consider that this is not our competence. It is the competence of the secretary, who has already made his report and we have nothing to say," said the spokesperson for Podemos, Myriam Barros.
"Someday we will know the reason for this expulsion now"
For his part, the spokesperson for the PSOE has also referred to the time it has taken CC to adopt measures regarding Sosa or to try to expel him from his group, when he joined the government in December 2019. “They didn't care as long as there was a possibility of generating instability. They had hope of recovering that legacy of 10 years of San Ginés before 2023 arrived and they hit a wall. And from that moment on, their vision of Mr. Sosa changed,” he stressed.
“Someday, sooner rather than later, we will know the reason for this expulsion and why now”, added the president, who has insisted that CC has tried to “force Sosa's resignation at any price”, with a “brutal campaign” against him.
In addition, she recalled that during the past term, the councilor who is now described as a “turncoat” allowed San Ginés to continue as president of the Cabildo, violating the guidelines of the party with which he had run in those elections. “The bought media that praised his sense of state when he kept San Ginés in the government, now accuse him of being a turncoat”, questioned the president.
