The Health Councilor of the Cabildo, Juan Manuel Sosa, has denied the accusations that Coalición Canaria launched against him last Friday, stating that they are "a hoax" to try to "damage" his image. In addition, he has questioned that CC disseminated it through a statement, which he sent to the media just while a Plenary Session of the Corporation was being held. "These are not the ways. If there is a suspicion that something has not been done well, they can go to the secretary of the Cabildo or ask the president or raise a question in the Plenary so that the councilor can answer it," Sosa pointed out.
In that press release, Coalición Canaria stated that "allegedly" Juan Manuel Sosa had been "impersonating" his spokesperson for almost a year and a half, in order to continue charging as a released councilor of the Cabildo charged to the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands. Sosa was the spokesperson for the CC group at the beginning of this term, after running in the elections on a joint list of Coalición Canaria and San Borondón, where he was then a member. However, after that alliance was broken, Juan Manuel Sosa left the nationalist group, also leaving the spokesperson position, and joined the PSOE and PP government in December 2019.
Since then, he says that "Pedro San Ginés and many other people from Coalición Canaria" have contacted him and have asked him on more than one occasion to return, as it would be necessary for a hypothetical motion of censure that they could negotiate, although those attempts have not prospered.
Finally, last week CC announced the formal expulsion of Sosa from his group, stating that when going to appoint a new spokesperson, Samuel Martín - who could also try to be released charged to the Ministry of Health - they had just learned of that alleged "impersonation". "Juan Manuel Sosa continues to charge from Health and not from the Cabildo de Lanzarote" and "does not meet any of the requirements for this to be the case," they argued in that statement, in which they stated that only a group spokesperson could do that.
"Things have been done correctly," Juan Manuel Sosa said for his part, who thanked the president of the Cabildo for defending his "honorability." Regarding the details of how he is released and through which institution he is charging, what he has responded is that "a few days must pass" and "the news will come out confirming that this is a hoax."
In addition, he has compared these accusations with the rumor that spread about him a few months ago, claiming that he had received the Covid vaccine when he was not yet entitled to it. "Just as it could be shown that that was false, with this we have to wait a few days and there will be news and it will also be shown," he insisted.
