The councilors of Coalición Canaria (CC), Ángel Domínguez and Fátima Viñoly, have announced their decision to continue in the government group of the Yaiza City Council, thus disobeying the mandate of their party that asked them, after breaking the pact, to leave the government.
The councilors have communicated through a statement that they have never voted "differently from what was established and ordered" by CC, but in this case they affirm that they do not share the way in which the party "has proceeded to break", unilaterally, the government agreement.
"We believe that it is a mistake caused and incited by people without the capacity for dialogue and with a clear intention to end the pact due to electoral interests and not those of the municipality", they have pointed out.
Therefore, they have indicated that they will remain in the municipal government because they assumed "a commitment to the residents of Yaiza" when signing, in 2019, an agreement with Unidos Por Yaiza (UPY), "which we understand we must carry out until the end."
The government group has achieved successes "with the effort of all"
Domínguez and Viñoly explain that during this legislature they have been "part of the various achievements obtained", in difficult times such as the pandemic, and "with the effort of all."
In these years, they highlight that "no resident was neglected and projects were not stopped either", so they understand that with the break "other issues unrelated to municipal activity are being prioritized."
In that sense, they define that their decision is a step that "we would never have wanted to have to take", although they recognize that they have stopped attending the last local committees for numerous reasons, "as has also happened with other local and island public representatives during this legislature in this local committee."
Regarding this, they criticize the fact that "there has not been any communication wanted" with them, and that they have been removed "even from the party's communication chats", violating, in their opinion, the right to express opinions within the political formation through those means to which we still belong today.
There has been no political disloyalty on the part of UPY
Beyond this, the councilors consider that talking about "disloyalty in politics is not a success on our part", when a motion of censure to the government partner was being considered, "without any reason", and the mayor, Óscar Noda, had "the temperance" not to remove us from the government group.
Therefore, taking into account this precedent, it does not seem logical to justify the breaking of the pact in an alleged lack of interest from UPY to sit at the Monitoring Table of the Pact, "when it was not even invoked, neither by CC nor by UPY."
To this they add that the action of the Local Secretariat of CC "has not been correct", since an election process was carried out where the decision of a Committee for its celebration on the agreed date was not respected and where "it was not neutral" with both candidates for a participation with the same conditions, and that the winner was chosen "as it should be in a democratic process."
"CC has not had even the slightest respect for its own statutes and for those of us who, for so long, have participated in this party in this municipality", they sentence.
