The mayor of Tinajo, Jesús Machín, is absolutely convinced that his former party colleague and still mayor of San Bartolomé, Miguel Martín, will run as a candidate for the Canarian Coalition (CC) in the next elections, therefore abandoning his position within the Canarian Nationalist Center (CCN). This is what he stated today during his statements to the Buenos Días program on Radio Lanzarote, where he ratified something he already said when the internal problems of the nationalist formation began. However, the most surprising thing about his statements comes from the fact that he confirmed that Miguel Martín himself offered his position if this made it possible to maintain the stability of the institution he presides over.
"Don Miguel Martín surprised me a lot when, in front of everyone, he made his position available to us during a meeting we had with them. He told his colleagues in the government group that he was willing to take a step back and give up his position." With these words he exposed what for many could be a great surprise, the fact that a theoretical member of the CCN was willing to renounce the Mayor's Office of San Bartolomé to help his corporation colleagues belonging to CC. "We must congratulate him, because he has been able to say that he does not want to be a problem that prevents things from being solved. I don't think everyone does that, and Don Miguel Martín did the same two weeks ago in front of the councilors of the Socialist Party (PSC)," said the mayor of Tinajo to delve even further into what could become one of the great anecdotes of the entire negotiating process, also stating that it was Andrés Stinga himself who told him that it was not the most appropriate time for him to resign.
Returning to the specific issue of Miguel Martín, his desire for him to return to the nationalist fold, he insisted that for his part the dialogue has always been fluid, regardless of whether the CCN decided to leave the coalition. For this reason, after recalling that they are still consulting "things", he pointed out that "I am still convinced that he is a man who, due to circumstances of life, has had to make a decision that I hope will be temporary". "Don Miguel Martín does not pose any problem for CC," he insisted.
Intense negotiating process
The mayor of Tinajo fully participated in the negotiations that have been carried out these days so that Juan Antonio de la Hoz and Ángela Aparicio would change their position and not support the mayor of San Bartolomé in his desire to reincorporate the resigned councilors of the Popular Party (PP) into the group's discipline. On Tuesday, specifically, he was meeting in the morning with his colleagues, observing "very good will" and a desire for things to change, which he later conveyed in the afternoon to the negotiator of the Canarian Socialist Party (PSC), Miguel Ángel Leal, and to the negotiator of the public office sector of the Party of Independents of Lanzarote (PIL), Sergio Machín. For him, the agreement obtained last Tuesday demonstrates that "the party has direction and firmness". "Until now we have resolved and solved all the problems we have had quickly and forcefully," he remarked, trying to show the lack of internal fissures that, in his view, are now developing.
Such was the urgency of the negotiation, so many were the problems that had to be resolved immediately, that both he and Mario Pérez decided, with the support of the rest of their colleagues, to initiate contacts without the presence of their president, Juan Santana, and their representative in the National Political Council of CC, José Torres Stinga. "I am very grateful to the colleagues from San Bartolomé for their willingness to dialogue and how faithful they have shown they are to the party, all in order to find a solution," he remarked.
Aside from any other type of disquisitions, Machín considers that the step taken by his formation is fundamental to guarantee the stability that the Island does not have at the moment. "We have shown that we are a solid, serious and responsible party, that when it signs a document it does so to comply with it, something that I don't think others can say," he remarked, insisting once again on underlining the importance of an agreement extracted from dialogue and reached unanimously.
