Councilman Carlos Alférez has submitted his resignation as head of the Subsidies area of the Arrecife City Council, following the incorporation of the Canarian Coalition into the government group. "I find it impossible to share government tasks with a formation that uses lies and harassment as a political weapon", he says in a letter addressed to the mayor, Ástrid Pérez.
In his writing, the mayor recalls that he ran in the local elections of May 2019 representing San Borondón, in a joint list with the Canarian Coalition, “with the conviction that it was an electoral coalition”, as happened with Juan Manuel Sosa in the Cabildo.
Afterwards, San Borondón terminated that pact due to the “humiliations” and “breaches” of its partner. And the main one, according to what the party denounced at the time, was that the Canarian Coalition did not notify the Electoral Board that the candidacy should be registered as an electoral coalition with the acronyms of the three formations, including San Borondón and the PNC.
“From that moment on, and with what can be described as a desire for revenge, I was expelled from the political group in which I was framed, forcing my move to the situation of non-attached councilman precisely for following the instructions of my party, which we also understood as a lack of respect and grievance to that part of society that trusted and supported Carlos Alférez at the polls as a representative of San Borondón,” he emphasizes in his letter.
In addition, he adds that “this situation has been aggravated by the extraordinary violence with which the Canarian Coalition has attacked” his colleague Juan Manuel Sosa, “based on lies and half-truths, trying to force his resignation with a harassment campaign of enormous harshness.” In this regard, Alférez recalls that it was his party, San Borondón, who ordered Sosa to abandon the spokesperson for the joint group of CC, when he decided to terminate the alliance, and later both joined the government groups of the Cabildo and Arrecife.
“I greatly appreciate the trust that you as mayor have placed in me and I deeply regret being forced to make this decision, but not everything is valid in politics and it would be absolutely inconsistent on my part to govern alongside those who have made lies a political weapon, turning my partner and me into the target of their unjustified attacks,” concludes the mayor.
