The mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, denies that he has asked for the head of Emilio Machín as a condition to join Coalición Canaria for the elections on May 28. Noda has stated that in his meeting with Fernando Clavijo, it was the president of CC who offered the head of the current candidate of the nationalist party for mayor when the time came.
"If someone wanted to cut off his head, it wasn't precisely me, it was his own president", Noda stated during a radio interview granted to Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero. The president of Coalición Canaria, Fernando Clavijo, would have commented that "if he needed someone to agree in the next elections, he had no problem in removing the nationalist candidate from Yaiza when the time came, sending him to an Island or General Directorate" and in giving him the support to reach the mayor's office.
This same situation would have occurred in other municipalities on the island, such as Arrecife, according to Noda's version. The current mayor of Yaiza has confessed that he would not have liked this conversation to come to light, but after Emilio Machín's statements on Radio Lanzarote, he has decided to tell his version of the story.
Unidos Por Yaiza (UPY) will compete in the elections on May 28 with Nueva Canarias. This was announced by the president of the Canarian formation, Román Rodríguez, and Óscar Noda himself in a joint event on March 15. Noda will be the coalition's candidate for the City Council but also for the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
He has also responded to the candidate for mayor for Yaiza Siempre (YAS), Jonatan Lemes, who called him "absolutist." "We base ourselves on management, not on political disqualifications and humiliations from one to another", the current mayor of Yaiza reproached in the radio interview granted this Friday. In this way, Noda responds to the accusations of Jonatan Lemes, who until a week ago was a government and party colleague. "We don't focus on that but on finding solutions", he concluded.
Óscar Noda has assured that "only five or six people" of those affiliated with Unidos Por Yaiza have announced their departure to join the new political party Yaiza Siempre (YAS). "The rest have continued to come to the meetings, they continue in the WhatsApp group", he defended. Furthermore, far from talking about the loss of affiliates, he has insisted that the project "continues to add people."
Óscar Noda: "I have not allowed certain businessmen to manage me, they are not used to decent and serious politicians saying no to them"
"I am not going to allow any of this, especially external and personal business interests, to hinder or sink such a good and exciting project as the one we have in Unidos por Yaiza", Óscar Noda added. Furthermore, he has stressed that Jonatan Lemes was organizing "the landing" of UPY guided by the former mayor Gladis Acuña, sentenced to 14 years of disqualification for the Stratvs case.
"I am not going to allow this, just as I have not allowed certain businessmen to manage me because they are not used to decent and serious politicians saying no to them", he concluded.