The New Canaries councilor in the Arrecife City Council, Armando Santana, has acknowledged his "concern" about the relationship with the Canarian Coalition, within the government pact that both formations maintain with the PP in the capital. "The party is falling apart and destroys all the institutions in which it is involved,” he questioned on Radio Lanzarote - Onda Cero, also referring to the situation that is being experienced in Haría.
However, Santana is not currently considering a break in the pact in the capital, since he states that his group has "a commitment to the PP, signed in 2019", and intends to "exhaust it until 2023", with the next elections.
“We have to keep it that way until the end of the legislature, but the situation with CC is not pleasant at all,” admits Armando Santana.
In any case, the NC councilor fears that this situation "will continue to grow" between now and May, and has lamented that in the end "those who pay the results are the neighbors".
“Absolute disloyalty and insults”
The coordinator of New Canaries in Lanzarote has particularly lashed out against the Canarian Coalition councilor in Arrecife, Echedey Eugenio, pointing out that "his usual tone is based on absolute disloyalty, insults and looking for political trouble", even "within his own party."
"He has said that NC is a residual force with that contempt that characterizes him and has reproached me for only getting one councilor, well, that councilor, who is me, made the government of Arrecife change and that his colleagues, starting with the defendant Pedro San Ginés, were in the opposition," Armando Santana responded.
He has also pointed out that Echedey Eugenio's colleagues have called him "horrified" at the CC councilor's statements. "They told me that they didn't understand absolutely anything."
"There are politicians who feel comfortable constantly generating conflicts in an administration and that is contrary to what Nueva Canarias thinks," insists the NC councilor. "It is not normal for a party that presumes to be nationalist and has to be as similar as possible to my party, to make me have a preferential partner relationship with the Popular Party, only because with the PP I can sit down to negotiate, because there is respect and education, and in the end we seek a common goal," he adds.
"It is very difficult when a party dedicates itself only to this, to constant disaster in the institutions," Santana insists. "We have seen it in this same legislature, when Echedey Eugenio himself tried to mount a motion of censure in Yaiza, or the controversy in Haría, we also see it continuously in Arrecife, with constant attacks not only towards my party and towards me, but towards the mayoress. His political history is based on that."
