The socialist councilor in the Arrecife City Council, David Duarte, has acknowledged having had offers from "several" parties to join their ranks for the upcoming elections, although he has not clarified whether he will leave the PSOE. "I do not rule out one thing or the other," said the local secretary of the PSOE in the capital, who precisely on Monday requested the resignation of his release as councilor in the Consistory to rejoin his job in the Cabildo.
"I don't know what I'm going to do with my life, initially on Friday I'm going back to work," Duarte said when asked about whether he rules out joining another party. What he did point out is that if he did, "it wouldn't" be to "tear his clothes". "We in the PSOE have public officials who have come from other parties and also on the lists. That happens in all parties," he added.
In fact, the PSOE councilor in the Arrecife City Council believes that "as the panorama is, from now until April 16", which is when the parties have to present the candidacies for the May elections, "there will be surprises in Lanzarote". "But I say in general, on the island," he specified.
In any case, what David Duarte has made clear is that if he made the decision to go to another party, he would resign from his position as councilor in the Arrecife City Council. "That would be the right thing for anyone to do. I don't understand a person going to a party with the minutes of another," he said.
"Sooner or later I had to join the Cabildo"
Regarding his resignation from his release as a councilor, he has denied that it has to do with the differences he has been dragging with his party colleague and mayor of Arrecife, Eva de Anta. "Sooner or later I had to join the Cabildo. Three days more, three days less, a month more, but I had to return," the councilman indicated.
"I have been able to verify in these days that it may be compatible to continue being a councilor and not charge from the municipal coffers," added David Duarte, who now only manages the Local Police Department, since the mayor of Arrecife withdrew the Departments of Festivities, Tourism and Roads and Works last February. "And the Police is structured organically, it has its organization law, its headquarters, its chain of command, and it is not usually something that takes so many hours of dedication," said Duarte, who said that he understood that his salary "can be used for other more important needs."
