Arrecife councilor Leticia Padilla has also decided to leave Podemos, although she will maintain her position as councilor in the capital. From the regional leadership of the party they have confirmed to La Voz that they have already received the letter with her resignation, which adds to the one presented on Tuesday by the councilor of Yaiza Ramiro Muñoz.
Both intend to remain in their positions under the umbrella of Lanzarote en Pie, which is the name given to the confluence with which Podemos ran in the last elections on the island, although it is not constituted as a party.
Initially, Lanzarote en Pie was presented as a citizen platform of "civil society", although one of its most visible faces since its creation was Leticia Padilla herself, as well as other members of Podemos. In addition, members of Somos Lanzarote were also seen in the first meetings, which at that time was negotiating a possible alliance with Podemos.
Finally, that agreement with Somos - which, like Podemos, ended up in a strong internal crisis - did not prosper, and Lanzarote en Pie ended up giving its name to the "confluence" with which the purple formation presented itself to the elections on the island, and to which only Equo joined. Thanks to that confluence, people who did not belong to the party or had gone through the Podemos primaries, such as the current councilors of the formation in the Cabildo, entered the electoral lists.
However, in the case of both Leticia Padilla and Ramiro Muñoz, both belonged to Podemos from its beginnings on the island. Even Leticia Padilla was elected in 2018 as general secretary of the party in Arrecife, although she has now decided to leave it, alleging, among other things, that there is a lack of "communication".
For their part, the regional leadership affirms that they "do not understand" the reasons given by both councilors and consider that there is "something else", such as an attempt to "harm the party" or to "prepare to present a coalition" of their own for the next elections.
