The boycott by CC councilors Mónica Álvarez and Sergio Machín in the first plenary session held this Friday by the Lanzarote Cabildo has opened a can of worms, creating uncertainty within the government group. Without them, the government group would lose its absolute majority. The councilors have not wanted to explain why they decided not to participate in this session, from which they walked out as soon as it began.
Specifically, they did not want to participate in the plenary session in which Pedro San Ginés was going to analyze the conflict between this Corporation and the Haría City Council, governed by José Torres Stinga, a party colleague of both the president and Álvarez and Machín, who for months have maintained a critical attitude towards San Ginés.
After absenting themselves from this session, these two councilors appeared in the second plenary session, where there were no issues of great relevance or controversy. Thus, although there were doubts about whether they would vote with the government group, Sergio Machín and Mónica Álvarez finally supported all the motions. Not even the opposition voted against, and in most cases, they simply abstained.
Even in some of them, such as the call for subsidies aimed at promoting and creating new agri-food companies, PP and PIL voted in favor.
They also addressed a point that did affect Álvarez and Machín, which is the ratification of the presidency's resolution on the restructuring of areas that these councilors left. On this point, they also gave their support to the government group, while Alternativa Ciudadana, PIL, and PP abstained.
Now, the question is what Mónica Álvarez and Sergio Machín will do in the upcoming plenary sessions, and especially on issues that may be of greater importance to the Corporation. If they were to add their votes to the opposition, they would leave the current government group in the minority.
Feeling of instability
This possible instability in the Cabildo adds to the questions that hang over the Teguise City Council, following the resignation of Jorge Quintero, a councilor from the non-attached group. Quintero himself stated this Thursday in statements to the media that while he was a councilor, "there was no room for a motion of censure", but with his departure "anything is possible".
Until now, even from his former party, the PP, he was accused of being a "key" for the current mayor, which would shield him from a hypothetical crisis in the pact he currently maintains with the PSOE. Oswaldo Machín, with the CC councilors, is only one councilor short of an absolute majority.
