The spokesperson for Podemos in the Cabildo of Lanzarote and former head of Heritage of the Corporation, María Antonia Perera, will join the Government of the Canary Islands as Director General of Cultural Heritage. The position depends on the Vice-Ministry of Culture, which under the regional pact between the PSOE, NC, Podemos and AGS, will be in the hands of her colleague Juan Márquez, who in the last legislature was a regional parliamentarian of the purple formation.
Once her appointment is ratified, Perera will leave her position in the Cabildo, which she joined a month ago after leading the list of the candidacy of Lanzarote en Pie ? Sí Podemos in the last elections. In those elections, the party won two councilors, so now the third on the list, Jorge Peñas, should join. However, sources from the formation indicate that the one who will take possession of the position is the one who was in fifth place, José Luis Asensio.
Thus, the fourth in the candidacy, Yurena Corujo, who had already been designated by the formation to work as an assistant to the group in the Cabildo, would also renounce to occupy the position. For his part, Jorge Peñas will be an advisor in the Tías City Council, where Podemos has also joined the government.
In this way, the new Lanzarote en Pie ? Sí Podemos group would be made up of José Luis Asensio and Myriam Barros, president of Las Kellys, who occupied the second position on the list and already took possession of her position in the constitution of the new Cabildo. Now, the formation must decide who to delegate the spokesperson and the release that corresponds to the group, which is currently held by María Antonia Perera, and which party sources indicate will now be in the hands of Myriam Barros.