Following the recent completion of its primary process, Podemos Canarias constituted its internal operating bodies this Monday, holding the first meeting of the Autonomous Citizen Council (highest deliberative body between assemblies) and the election of the new Coordination Council, co-led by Noemí Santana (national deputy and former Minister of Social Rights, Equality, Diversity and Youth of the Government of the Canary Islands) and Javier Bermúdez (former Director General of Social Rights of the executive emerged from the Pacto de las Flores).
At the beginning of the meeting, Santana and Bermúdez appeared before the media, inaugurating "in tandem" the new cycle of the organization. Santana has opted to "start the new stage with a lot of responsibility to reach the 2027 elections in the best conditions", highlighting "the desire, the enthusiasm and the very powerful profiles" with which the party faces the future after "very hard and difficult moments".
Santana elaborated on the joint formula in which she and Javier Bermúdez will address a mandate in which "a strong commitment is made to the collective and team formulas". The deputy emphasized the presence of "colleagues with enormous experience, political and governmental" together with "new profiles", a combination with which the organization sets the horizon of "winning the Canary Islands in 2027". The new autonomous coordinator of Podemos Canarias described the roadmap that the purple party will launch from this moment, pointing out that the new Coordination Council will dedicate two years "to training activities" and another two to "generate new political cadres and give the space freshness and future".
Bermúdez, for his part, stressed the objective of strengthening the organization: "We are the political space that can raise the hegemony of the discourse against plunder, destruction...", expressed the purple representative.
Internally, the purple formation set as main objectives for the new political cycle the territorial and municipal implementation, claiming "a specific project for the Canary Islands with a fit in the state proposal represented by Podemos". For the development of this task, the organization will have, in addition to the figures of Santana and Bermúdez, an Autonomous Citizen Council composed of 24 profiles, among which are figures such as Sylvia Jaén Martínez (former Deputy Minister of Equality and Diversity), Gemma Martínez Soliño (current Deputy Mayor and Government Councilor of the City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and former Deputy Minister of Social Rights), Idaira Afonso de Martín (councilor in the City Council of La Laguna), Gabriel González Fernández (councilor in Adeje), Nona Perera (former Director General of Heritage of the autonomous executive), Lilian Concepción (former councilor of the City Council of Puerto del Rosario) and María Rosa Martínez Hernández (candidate of the purple party to the Parliament of the Canary Islands for the island of La Palma in the last autonomous elections), and Mila Hormiga (professor at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, former councilor of the Cabildo de Tenerife and former Secretary of Health of Podemos Canarias) among others of recognized trajectory within the political, social and cultural life of the archipelago. The new executive, which has been elected during the afternoon of this Monday by the CCA, combines new profiles with those with experience in the party and management, which make up a Coordination Council that the party describes as "powerful, cohesive and of the future".
The newly appointed Coordination Council, headed by Noemí Santana (new autonomous coordinator of the purple party) and Javier Bermúdez (new Secretary of Politics and Discourse), will have Cristo González as Secretary of Legal, Finance and Institutional Affairs, Manuel González Mauricio as Secretary of Organization, Citizen Movement and Training, Gemma Martínez as Secretary of Municipalism, International Relations and European Union and Ros
Martínez as Secretary of Social Rights, Housing and Animal Welfare; Sylvia Jaén as Secretary of Feminism and Diversity. Nona Perera, for her part, will assume the Heritage Secretariat of the formation, and the rest of the areas will be distributed as follows: Gabriel González will occupy the Secretariat of Territory Protection and Sustainability; César Merino will be the new Secretary of Communication and Fernando Ruiz will lead the Secretariat of Circles and Participation.
