The mayor of Tinajo and honorary president of Coalición Canaria, Jesús Machín, has been critical of the direction his party is taking and the policy of confrontation, which he believes could take its toll. “In these little battles, do you know what can happen? That instead of winning the war, you lose it. That's what can happen in the little battles. Let's contribute things to society”, he has demanded, referring to episodes such as the harsh attacks by his colleagues in Arrecife on the Deputy Minister of Territorial Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands, Leopoldo Díaz.
“I don't get into wars. For me, Polo has always been a gentleman and will continue to be so. And I say it publicly. I am not a man of ideologies or colors, I am a man of people. I owe Polo and Esteban Armas so much when the General Plan...", Machín added, mentioning the time of both technicians in the Island Plan Office of the Cabildo, when they were also harshly questioned by the then president, Pedro San Ginés.
“Look, the other day I went into a hardware store and a man told me: Suso, you have to make decisions here now, because this is not going in the right direction”, added the honorary president of CC. Furthermore, although he does not hide his disagreements, he has shown that they go beyond what he publicly admits, out of respect for his daughter. “I have a complicated situation, because although Migdalia does very well, suffers a lot, I sometimes prefer not to give opinions because I don't want to offend my daughter, who is the general secretary of Coalición Canaria”, he pointed out, making it clear that the problem he believes exists in the party is not in her.
“What is clear is that there are people who are loved in politics, who have empathy with people and other people do not have it”, added Jesús Machín, who has defended the results that Coalición Canaria always obtains in his municipality. “Tinajo can boast today that it is the only place where you win the Mayor's Office, the Congress, the Cabildo...”, he added, defending that in his municipality they are outside the “wars”.
"When I don't share something, I prefer not to speak"
Regarding the agreement closed with the PP in Arrecife, and the intervention that Fernando Clavijo had for CC and Teodoro García Egea for the popular ones, Machín has avoided pronouncing himself, although he has made his position clear: “When I don't share something, I prefer not to speak. I will speak when I have to speak, but I hope I don't have to” he pointed out.
However, he has regretted that CC is outside the government of the Cabildo. “I don't care if it's called PSOE or PP, but what I would like is to govern, to contribute to this island, because the opposition is sometimes very cold and does not contribute”, he pointed out.
Furthermore, he has also questioned one of the legacies that San Ginés left during his Presidency in the Cabildo, with the awarding of water to Canal Gestión, against which he has once again charged, for the deficient service it provides. “If we have to take Canal Gestión and put them in the middle of nowhere, we'll send them, and we'll see if the contract was done well or badly”, he added, thus questioning that contract signed by Pedro San Ginés with the company.
Jesús Machín has also defended the need to avoid confrontations within Coalición Canaria itself. “When I was president of CC, I fought a lot with my friend Pepe Torres, he is still my friend but we fought a lot, we argued a lot, but I always maintained the union. Because unity makes strength in all aspects of life. And I achieved results that have not been achieved until now”, he stressed.
“The enemies are at home, they are not outside”, he has stated, recalling the difficult moments that CC has gone through, including the candidacy that he led to the Senate, when Dimas Martín withdrew his support at the last minute with a public letter. “Today I thank him, because today my company would be worse if I had gone to Madrid for four years”, he pointed out, defending that even so, in those elections they achieved four deputies for Lanzarote. “I maintained the union, and I knew how to have a left hand”, he highlighted.
However, he believes that the same does not happen with all his party colleagues, and he has launched a message quoting a phrase from Luis Perdomo: “In politics, what is interesting to know is to add and multiply; subtracting and dividing is not interesting among colleagues. When you see that they are rowing in a good direction, well, when they don't row the same, it's better for them to stay on land”.
