The president of the Popular Party, Ástrid Pérez, has dismissed Jacobo Medina this Monday as general secretary of the Popular Party in Lanzarote. It was hours before the Executive Committee of the party was held where it was made public and it was announced who replaces him. As La Voz has advanced, María Jesús Tovar assumes the General Secretariat of the party.
A dismissal that comes just over a month after the withdrawal of the Vice Presidency of the Cabildo from Jacobo Medina. In addition, in that restructuring, the areas of Planning and Coordination of projects were also taken away from the until now vice president. It was precisely María Jesús Tovar who assumed the Vice Presidency of the First Institution.
As will be recalled, the Popular Party of Lanzarote has been in an internal crisis for months that has even jumped to regional media that echoed the problems of the formation on the island. As La Voz has learned, Jacobo Medina will continue in the party and in his position in the Cabildo.
In addition to the appointment of Tovar, the appointment of the councilor for the Environment and Beaches of Arrecife, Davinia Déniz, as head of the Vice-Secretariat of Sectoral Action, newly created, and of Francisco de León as Executive Secretary of Affiliations.
As the island president, Astrid Pérez, has stated in a statement, “these appointments are aimed at reorganizing the internal structure and strengthening the party in the face of the 2027 elections, to which we have to arrive in the best possible conditions, with a greater territorial presence and with strong and committed teams in all the municipalities, something in which all the local presidents agree.”
“The Popular Party is a presidential party and it is my responsibility as president to form a strong, cohesive organic team in which we all row in the same direction, and both the dismissal of the secretary and the appointments that I have informed the Executive Committee respond to this need,” explains Pérez.
“The gradual growth that we have been achieving over the years has allowed us to be governing today in key institutions such as Arrecife, Cabildo and Teguise. We are at a decisive moment in which the most important thing, and what we must focus on exclusively, is the citizens and their needs,” highlights the island president, who adds that “the only objective is to continue advancing in the project in the two islands.”
