The island secretary of the Canarian Coalition in Lanzarote, Migdalia Machín, has assured that she will negotiate with the Popular Party to integrate "all the councilors" into the government, also counting on Echedey Eugenio, who maintains that he is "the reference in the capital". "There are people who may like you better or worse and you cannot separate them, and you cannot say yes to you and no to you," Machín pointed out on Radio Lanzarote – Onda Cero. In this way, she dismisses the rumors that exist about the possibility that only five of the councilors of the nationalist formation would have some area in the Government, among whom the spokesperson in the Consistory would not be.
The breakdown of the pact between the PP and the PSOE in the Arrecife City Council has led to the Canarian Coalition, leader of the opposition with eight councilors, now having the possibility of entering the municipal government. In that sense, Migdalia Machín has assured that an option has opened up "that she did not have on the table a day ago", and that it is an opportunity to "try to govern". In addition, she acknowledges having gone to the general secretary of the party in the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, to tell him "that it had to be tried". "Obviously it is our role from the opposition", she said in reference to Clavijo's conversations with the PP leadership in Madrid.
However, Machín has assured that the existence of a closed pact with the PP responds to "the rumorology of Lanzarote", and that if it were so "the mayor would not have said that she was starting the round of contacts". Likewise, she acknowledges having started conversations "with the PP and the PSOE", thus emphasizing that her intention has always been to govern in the capital.
"We from the opposition try to look for different options, obviously we offer and it depends on the others," said Machín, who also emphasizes that it is the mayor who has to "get the majority", although she hopes that the pact between both formations "can materialize". "If not, it is very difficult to reach the end of the legislature. If there is will, things are closed", she sentenced.
“On our part there is no vendetta, neither with the PSOE nor with the PP”
Machín has taken advantage of the interview to state that she would negotiate "with any party that calls her", regardless of "whether an agreement is reached or not". In this sense, she has stressed that the president of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo, has put "a red line to CC", in the press conference offered this Thursday. "On our part there is no vendetta, neither with the PSOE nor with the PP", said Migdalia Machín.
She has also included Lanzarote En Pie in these possible negotiations, acknowledging that there are things "that differentiate them" but that there is the possibility of "finding points of agreement". "I approach politics like this, I don't approach it with you yes and you no, we sit down, we dialogue and we look for a meeting point", Machín assured, although she adds that in this case it is up to LEP "what they want and if they are willing to govern with the PP".
