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As planned, councilors Candelaria Ledesma and Carlos Martín, from the Party of Independents of Lanzarote (PIL), resigned this Wednesday from their government delegations in the City Council of San Bartolomé.
The departure of the councilors, which leaves Mayor Miguel Martín governing with his colleague from the Canarian Nationalist Center (CCN), José Manuel Morales, and three councilors from the Popular Party (PP), followed the resignation of the two councilors from the Canarian Coalition registered this Tuesday.
In this way, the councilors from the critical sector of the PIL, like those from CC, abide by the party discipline to facilitate the achievement of an agreement in the municipality of Ajei. Now, it seems unlikely that Miguel Martín can continue to keep the PP councilors with government responsibilities. However, the mayor announced that he would dismiss the popular councilors when the socialist councilors publicly express their intention to join the government group. According to the signed agreement, CC, PIL and PSOE are the formations that should share power in San Bartolomé.
Another leg that came out of the well-worn case of San Bartolomé is the reminder that the CCN makes from Gran Canaria in the sense that the agreement signed in San Bartolomé de Tirajana includes the support of the socialists for Miguel Martín in Lanzarote. It should be remembered that the socialist councilors in San Bartolomé de Lanzarote do not want to know anything about Martín, even the agreement has not been closed in that municipality because they demand the Mayor's Office for their formation.
The insular secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Carlos Espino, declared in the radio program Buenos Días Lanzarote that perhaps the strategy of the CCN is "to make this type of statements to tie up the situation." Espino, suggesting autonomy, stressed that the PSOE of the Island has its governing bodies and assured that the militants of San Bartolomé "are the ones who ultimately have to make a decision."
Espino understands that the PSOE is a national organization in which regional actions can be coordinated at certain times, but from there to the fact that the north of the party at the insular level is decided from other areas there is a big difference. "Here we play with teams from Lanzarote, with referees from the Island and the regulations from here," he commented.
For his part, José Torres Stinga, negotiator of CC at the agreement table, said that the CCN's claim is a novel situation that should provoke the pronouncement of the Socialist Party, although he revealed that they already had rumors of the conditions of the Tirajana agreement. However, he believes that efforts must be redoubled to find a quick and stable solution for the municipality of San Bartolomé.
Carlos Espino thinks that it is very positive that the councilors of the PIL and CC have withdrawn their support for Miguel Martín because in this way the agreement that had been agreed for San Bartolomé begins to be fulfilled. "Let's see if our councilors and the three insular directorates are capable of forging a satisfactory response for the residents," he noted.
Socialist prophecies
After the celebration of the Insular Executive Committee of the PSC-PSOE held last night at the headquarters in Arrecife, its general secretary and prime vice president of the Cabildo, Manuel Fajardo, who assured that the socialists would have no problem staying in the opposition of San Bartolomé, predicted that it will be in the vote of the plenary session that the City Council holds tomorrow Friday when it will really be known "if the councilors of PIL and CC support Miguel Martín or not, that is, if the resignations of the councilors and the withdrawal of support for the mayor has been a charade."
By acclamation, the Insular Committee of the PSC-PSOE approved the management report that Fajardo presented last night, who said he was not in favor of any ultimatum, neither to the mayor nor by his tri-party colleagues, in reference to the announcement by the insular parliamentarian Celso Betancor to give 48 hours to CC and PSC before asking them to disassociate San Bartolomé from the three-way agreement.
The socialists added that it is not acceptable, if it is true, that a few hours after having presented the motion the PIL councilors went out to eat with Miguel Martín. As strange is also that in the meantime it was impossible for the socialist councilors to find the mayor to resume negotiations.
Finally, the socialist leader in Lanzarote announced that the general secretary of the PSC-PSOE in the Canary Islands, Juan Carlos Alemán, still does not give credit to the links implanted by the CCN between both city councils, that of Tirajana and that of San Bartolomé de Lanzarote.
