The spokespersons of the tripartite government (CC, PIL and PSOE) met at around 12:00 noon this Friday in the Vice Presidency of the Cabildo to discuss the situation in the government group of San Bartolomé.
At the end of the meeting, the representative of the split from the Partido de Independientes de Lanzarote (PIL), Celso Betancor, announced that his political formation would abandon the government group if the mayor, Miguel Martín, and Coalición Canaria (CC) did not remove the Partido Popular (PP) from the municipal government, recently readmitted after its three councilors resigned from their positions a month ago with the start of the institutional crisis in Lanzarote, in order not to govern together with CC.
For his part, the vice president of the Cabildo and general secretary of the Socialist Party (PSC-PSOE), Manuel Fajardo, announced that "the socialists are not willing to turn the other cheek" and that he considered that the return of the PP "was due to a totally personal decision." Fajardo explained that the tripartite government would continue to function in any case. "It will not be broken at all. We'll see," he said.
For his part, the socialist Miguel Ángel Leal stressed that the stability recently acquired in the Cabildo and in the Arrecife City Council is not at stake, whatever the final outcome in the San Bartolomé City Council, but he stressed that the PSC-PSOE will ensure that the agreement is fulfilled in the three institutions, "as had been agreed." "We have already agreed that the Presidency of the Cabildo should be for Inés Rojas. We are not willing to allow the PP to return to San Bartolomé, when it had already been agreed that the PSOE would also form a tripartite government in the City Council," he said. "If the problem is not solved soon, they will have to face the consequences," he concluded.
Mayor's Office and motion of censure
The socialist spokesman in the San Barrtolomé City Council, Andrés Stinga, denied this Friday the accusations that implicate the socialists in a possible agreement with the Popular Party to submit the mayor to a motion of censure. "Reguera called me offering the Mayor's Office to the PSOE, but we maintained that we were going to comply with the agreement with the mayor," he explained. However, yesterday he did not rule out that his formation would ask its partners in the tripartite government (CC and PIL) to lead a motion of censure against Martín to force the expulsion of the Popular Party.
