Coalición Canaria breaks the pact in Yaiza and abandons the municipal government "due to the snub of Unidos por Yaiza (UPY) and its president, Óscar Noda, and due to the continuous excuses of his now former government partner to convene the monitoring table of the pact, thus avoiding clarifying the tense situation that has been experienced in the south for months." Now it remains to be seen if Ángel Domínguez and Fátima Viñoly will listen to their party and leave the government.
"CC is not going to be an accomplice to certain situations, much less if instead of explanations all we receive are excuses and attempts to delay with the sole objective of wearing us down," says the island secretary of the nationalists, Migdalia Machín.
As Machín explains, "for our political formation, communication is fundamental and we consider that the lack of it between both parties makes the situation unsustainable."
And it is that, since last December 30, the highest leader of CC in Lanzarote announced that she had written to the mayor of Yaiza and secretary of UPY, Óscar Noda, requesting the convocation of the aforementioned consensus body, the request to specify the date of the meeting has been reiterated on several occasions and through different channels, "without Noda having shown any interest in closing the meeting, simply letting the days pass."
"After several unsuccessful attempts to contact and try to agree on schedules, Migdalia Machín sent a final email on Thursday, January 12, in which she demanded that Noda hold the monitoring table of the pact before Monday, January 16, emphasizing the complicated political and administrative situation that is experienced daily in the City Council," she adds.
Likewise, a period of 24 hours was given (which ended at 8:20 p.m. on Friday, January 13) for the president of UPY to "give some sign of interest in redirecting the situation, obtaining as the only response that his busy schedule as mayor" prevents him from meeting with the nationalists until January 20.
"With this snub and lack of the obligatory respect that should exist between parties that govern together, in CC we understand that UPY has no intention of maintaining a good working climate that allows, in this final stage of the mandate, to achieve the pending objectives," emphasizes Machín, who insists that "between parties that co-govern there must be a minimum of decorum and respect, but Unidos por Yaiza has not had it with us."
From CC they point out that "the government agreement reached in Yaiza after the 2019 elections was not what the nationalists would have liked (only two of the four CC councilors with government areas) but it was accepted because at that time it was the only possibility of giving governability to the southern Consistory and working for and for the residents of Yaiza" and, as Machín emphasizes, "CC is a party that runs in elections to govern."
However, they state from CC, "with the passage of time, relations between both government partners have been strained, to the point of snubbing Emilio Machín, councilor in the City Council and CC candidate for Mayor of Yaiza in May 2023."
The island secretary assures that "CC has done everything possible to resolve the government crisis but that when one of the partners does not even have an interest in putting our differences on the table, trying to resolve them and dialogue for the good of the municipality, there is nothing more to do than take the step and work from the opposition what they have not allowed us to work from the government."