The Government Council of the Canary Islands has made nine appointments of senior officials of the Executive this Friday, including the socialist José Luis Aparicio Sánchez, who will be the new island manager of Health Services in Lanzarote. Aparicio, who is a doctor by profession, was a PSOE councilor in the Cabildo in the last legislature.
After the meeting of the Governing Council, the spokesperson for the Executive, Narvay Quintero, denied that there are delays in appointments due to differences between the government partners and in particular due to what happened in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, where CC continues to govern in minority together with the PIL councilor.
According to the EFE agency, Quintero has assured that "90 percent" of the new senior officials of the Executive have already been appointed and, although he admitted that the process is going "somewhat slower" than in previous legislatures, he has attributed it to the summer period and the changes that are being introduced in the organizational chart with respect to the past mandate of Paulino Rivero.
Along with the new manager of Health Services of Lanzarote, this Friday the appointments of four general directors (of Foreign Relations, of Protection of Minors and the Family, of Telecommunications and New Technologies and of Planning and Budgets) have been confirmed, as well as two other managers of island Health Services (of La Palma and El Hierro), the manager of the University Hospital of the Canary Islands (HUC) and the new director of the Agency for the Protection of the Urban and Natural Environment, which will be Ana Batista García.
