The councilor of Coalición Canaria, Sergio Machín, will return next week to integrate into the government group of the Cabildo of Lanzarote. According to La Voz, Machín will not assume any specific area, but will become the spokesperson for CC.
The news comes a year after Sergio Machín and Mónica Álvarez broke the voting discipline of Coalición Canaria in the Cabildo, putting the government group in trouble during several Plenary sessions, since without them it did not achieve a sufficient majority. At that time, the Insular Executive Commission of CC asked both councilors to hand over their minutes, but they did not.
In recent months, the tension had subsided and CC and PSOE had managed to move their proposals forward, but neither Machín nor Álvarez had recovered their government areas. In fact, he had returned to his activity as a teacher. Now, although he will not hold a specific Councilorship again, he will be released again.
Meanwhile, as sources from the government group have confirmed to La Voz, Coalición Canaria is also in dialogue with Mónica Álvarez, to try to "smooth things over" and count on her in the final stretch of the legislature.
The beginning of the conflict
In the case of Sergio Machín, his differences with CC, and especially with the president of the Cabildo, Pedro San Ginés, began when he withdrew part of the powers he held, specifically the area of Waste.
San Ginés personally assumed this Councilorship claiming that there was a "very complex adjudication process that would compromise the institution for the next 15 or 20 years", with "many complex and millionaire processes", in relation to the adjudication of the management of services at the Zonzamas landfill. "Some of us are more relaxed since you are not the Councilor for Waste", San Ginés told Machín in a Plenary session, when he had already left the government group.
Shortly after losing those powers, Sergio Machín resigned from the rest of his areas and left the government group, although he will now return, as CC spokesperson, eight months before the end of the legislature.