San Ginés asks AC for neutrality in order to govern "normally"

"Yes, of course." This is how Pedro San Ginés responded to the question of whether he is confident that he will remain president until the end of the legislature. "That is what the citizens decided two years ago and the circumstances have not yet arisen for that to cease to be the case, and no one has asked me to do so either," he added, denying that he has considered resigning, despite having become a minority in the Cabildo.

In addition, he has sent a message to Alternativa Ciudadana, asking for "neutrality". "It has become a protagonist without wanting to, because it so happens that no situation of instability in the Cabildo is possible without the concurrence of Alternativa Ciudadana," San Ginés stressed, recalling that even if the councillors of CC Mónica Álvarez and Sergio Machín joined forces with those of the PIL and the PP, they would not have a majority. And in that scenario, there would be a tie and undoing it would be in the hands of the AC councillor.

"We are in such a small minority that Alternativa Ciudadana will have to choose between instability or alignment with the PIL-PP and, if applicable, which they are not yet, with two defectors, for instability to occur. Their neutrality would be enough for the government to govern with absolute normality," the president stressed.

"Rule it out, because it wouldn't fit"

In addition, he wanted to put an end to the rumors that were unleashed after the plenary session on the Debate on the State of the Island. "Summarizing everything I said that day in one answer is very complicated. What I have said is that it is something that cannot be ruled out," he added in reference to the possibility that he would present his resignation.

In this regard, he pointed out that it is the opposition who, "if it had a majority, has an instrument to change the state of affairs." "And if it doesn't have it, it must decide what it aspires to," he demanded, stressing that they must have that majority "without defectors."

This is how he referred to the possibility of a motion of censure being filed against him, and he did so clarifying that in the current scenario, it is impossible (at least without the concurrence of the PSOE). San Ginés stressed that in the event that Mónica Álvarez and Sergio Machín intended to file a motion of censure with the PIL and the PP, they could not do so because "the regulations and the electoral law prevent it," "whether they belong to the CC acronym or whether they are expelled." "That possibility with which some speculate, rule it out, because it wouldn't fit," he sentenced.

Plenary session delayed

Regarding the situation with the two dissident CC councillors, on whom the party has not yet commented, San Ginés replied that this should be asked "to the political organization." "I hope that the party will deliberate in the next Executive on the insular political situation and adopt the measures it deems appropriate, also in relation to those councillors," he said.

In any case, although he pointed out that "what has happened is serious," he also wanted to downplay it. "After all, if we are realistic, there has been no proposal of importance from the government group that has been rejected to this day," he said, referring to the two CC proposals that were rejected in the plenary session of the Debate on the State of the Island.

Where the government group could start to have difficulties is in the next ordinary session of the Plenary, which in principle was scheduled to be held this Friday, but which has finally not been convened. "It has been a very busy week, I have chaired two marathon sessions of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and one of the Fecai," which met this Thursday on the island, said San Ginés, who has limited himself to pointing out that "the Plenary will be convened when appropriate."

In that session, the opposition could present again the motion that San Ginés did not admit to debate last Tuesday, and in which PP and PIL requested the elimination of advisors and insular directors and the freezing of the salaries of the president and the councillors.