The mayor of the Arrecife City Council, Astrid Pérez, has defended that she invited all the government partners to the press conference held last Thursday to take stock of her three years in government, but Coalición Canaria decided to reject her invitation and not attend.
“I have heard that some of CC have said that we did not invite them”, the mayor questioned, who has denied that it was so. “I know that some are already in election mode, in an election campaign, but everything is documented, everything is by email or Whatsapp. Of course they were invited”.
Astrid Pérez has explained that at first, when it was proposed to hold a debate on the municipality, “all the partners thought it was fantastic”. However, when they finally suspended it and decided to call a press conference, “the majority partner said that they did not feel like coming”.
In this regard, she assured that CC declined the invitation claiming that as they were going to talk about the 3 years of government and they have only been in office for 7 months, "99.9% of the achievements that are going to be sold are not from Coalición Canaria”.
“I did want them to be there, I would have loved it, but they cannot be forced to be there”, she stated on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero, adding that when she co-governed as the second political force, “she always went to press conferences when management reports were made”.
It should be remembered that at first, the mayor of Arrecife decided to convene a Debate on the State of the Municipality of Arrecife, because "it had been unanimously approved by the City Council Plenary". However, Ástrid Pérez affirms that at the request of the secretary, she decided to postpone it, as it is not regulated by law and it was replaced by a press conference held last Thursday, July 14.
