The island leadership of the Canarian Coalition announced this Tuesday that it considers the agreement it had with the PSOE in the Haría City Council to be broken, although not all of its councilors will abide by this decision. The island secretary of CC, Migdalia Machín, has indicated that four of its five councilors will do so, after almost all of them breached the directives of their formation in the Plenary session last Saturday. In that Plenary session, only one voted against the new agreement of the Cueva de Los Verdes, while three abstained and another voted in favor.
CC made this announcement at a press conference in which Migdalia Machín was accompanied by the Secretary of Communication and party spokesperson, Echedey Eugenio, and by the Secretary of the Local Committee of CC in Haría, Víctor Robayna. Robayna was the only councilor who maintained the discipline ordered by CC in the Plenary session last Saturday, and he has also been the only one present at this appearance before the media.
Regarding the councilwoman who will not follow the party's mandate to leave the government group, they have specified that it is Soraya Brito. In her case, in the Plenary session of the Cave, she chose to abstain. "I don't know if she will do it throughout the day," said Machín, who nevertheless confirmed that Brito had already conveyed her opposition to leaving the Government. Thus, if she maintains this position, the island secretary of CC has announced that disciplinary proceedings will be opened against her.
As for Armando Bonilla, who voted in favor along with the PSOE in the Plenary session of the Cave, allowing the agreement to prosper, he has submitted his resignation from his areas of government. However, regarding the possibility of requesting this councilor to hand over the minutes for what happened in the Plenary session, Migdalia Machín has assured that this possibility "has not been debated" for the moment.
"My duty is to try to achieve governability"
Regarding a possible motion of censure with the Platform of the Municipality of Haría, the island secretary of CC has not ruled it out. In fact, she has not denied having met with the party of her former colleague, José Torres Stinga, before the plenary session of the Cave. "I have always spoken with the PMH," said Migdalia Machín. "I do not refuse to sit down with the PMH, I do not come with baggage from the past for things that happened behind. I am a person who is open to dialogue and my duty as secretary is to try to achieve governability and talk with everyone," she added.
In this sense, the island secretary of CC has been questioned about whether her party would even be willing to give the Mayor's Office to Torres Stinga's party. "These are things that we have to see, I cannot say one thing or another. When you negotiate, you negotiate from different points of view and it is also a question that the party will have. I never make a decision without it going to the party's bodies," replied Migdalia Machín.
"It is the PSOE who has broken the pact"
Before talking about the decisions taken by CC after what happened with its councilors in the Plenary session of the Cave, the island secretary of CC stated that it was the PSOE who put them in "a super delicate situation" by convening the session to approve the new agreement. In fact, she has stated that if they have decided to break the pact with the socialists it is because they consider that they are the ones who have breached it. And it is that, according to Migdalía Machín, "the pact reflected that no agreement on the Cave would go ahead without the consensus of both political formations."
For this reason, she stated that CC requested the mayor of Haría, Alfredo Villalba, to suspend the plenary session. And it is that, she insisted that for her party there were "two issues that were non-negotiable." One was that "the text did not refer to any type of compensation or execution of judgment" and the other was that the Haría Development Plan included in the previous agreement signed between Pedro San Ginés and the former northern mayor, Marci Acuña, was maintained.
Migdalia Machín has once again defended that they consider that said agreement, despite the fact that it was never validated by the courts and according to municipal reports was "harmful" to the Consistory, "was good for the interests of Haría." In addition, she has insisted that the Development Plan involved 18 million euros, despite the fact that what was included in the agreement was an investment of six million. "That was the minimum," she assured.
For all this, she explained that CC presented a counterproposal but that, when the plenary session was maintained to approve the new agreement, she tried to reach an agreement so that it would not prosper", affirming that this was also "the strategy of the councilors of Haría". Thus, although the Permanent of CC approved last week to reject the new agreement, this Tuesday she has assured that "it was agreed" with them that "they abstain", with the exception of Víctor Robayna, who was clear" that "he was going to vote no". "With that and with the PMH, which we knew that its vote was going to be negative, the agreement was not going to prosper, but our surprise was when one of our councilors did not comply with the discipline," she added.
After that, Migdalia Machín explained that an urgent Permanent was convened on Saturday, in which it was decided that the best thing to do was to leave the government group and move to the opposition, although until this Tuesday the party had remained silent. "Because the circumstances in which we had remained were quite complicated, first because the PSOE is the one who has skipped in this case not to take out an agreement in consensus", concluded the island secretary of CC.
On the other hand, the Secretary of Communication of CC, Echedey Eugenio, has announced that the party is going to make "legal consultations" on the approval of the new agreement of the Cave. "Because an agreement that compromises the budgets of Haría in a high percentage, we are not clear that it is worth with a simple majority," he said.