"Antonio Hernández, Councilor for Urban Planning, Police and first Deputy Mayor, hereby communicates his irrevocable will to cease in his areas of government and his position as councilor due to the manifest disloyalty demonstrated by his own PIL group colleagues in the Arrecife City Council." This is how clear and forceful is the letter of resignation submitted this Tuesday by Hernández to the capital's plenary session, after his differences with not only Dimas Martín, but also with other islanders who he believes have turned their backs on him, became increasingly evident.
In fact, his decision comes just hours after the PIL councilors in Arrecife held a meeting, which he did not attend, in which they distanced themselves from the position that the president of the PIL had maintained up to that moment against the pact with the PSOE and came out in defense of the alliance, even communicating it to the mayor, as Enrique Pérez Parrilla himself confirmed to La Voz this Tuesday.
[In an interview granted this Monday to Lanzarote Televisión, and also collected by La Voz de Lanzarote->16477], Hernández himself made it clear that he was contemplating the possibility of abandoning both his position as councilor in Arrecife and the presidency of the PIL, even stating that he found it difficult to continue sitting next to certain colleagues who "try to trip you up so that you never get up again".
Now, and while everything points to the PIL having to hold an imminent Congress to elect a new president, in the Arrecife City Council it will be Eduardo Lasso who occupies the space left by Antonio Hernández, since he was the next on the list of islanders to the City Council.
