The PIL leadership did not want to comment on the statement sent this Wednesday by its councilors in Arrecife and San Bartolomé, nor did they report on whether the meeting held by the party this Wednesday agreed to take any action against the councilors, after they made it clear that they will not abandon the government groups of these two municipalities despite their party's decision to break the pact with the PSOE. "We are not going to make any kind of declaration or manifestation," said the second vice president of the PIL, José Marcial González, now hiding behind the fact that it is an "internal" matter and that "what needs to be done is to fix it at home."
"These are internal procedures, the colleagues from both Arrecife and San Bartolomé did not attend the meeting, and when the procedure that corresponds with the statutes is launched, they will be informed, they will not find out through the media either. But for now we have nothing to say," Gonzalez responded to La Voz after being asked if the party plans to expel its councilors.
The second vice president of the PIL also avoided assessing the statement sent by the councilors of the formation in Arrecife and San Bartolomé, despite the fact that it directly attacked him, stating that he "is only looking for a salaried position." "Regarding personal statements, I do not make any kind of manifestation," said José Marcial González, who, despite being asked repeatedly, insisted that he "could not" "say anything" because "it is all internal." "Everything we have said we have already released in press releases and now what needs to be done is to fix it at home among ourselves," he added.
A dismissal of advisors that their councilors requested and for which he appealed to the PSOE
In this sense, it should be remembered that the PIL decided to break the pact with the PSOE in Arrecife and San Bartolomé in a Political Council held on April 2, arguing that it was due to the dismissal of its advisors in the capital, among whom was José Marcial González himself. A dismissal that the mayor of Arrecife carried out at the request of the PIL councilors themselves in the City Council. Then, although now the party leadership claims that it is an "internal" problem, the PIL even appealed to the PSOE to demand a rectification and, when it did not occur, decided to break the pact with the socialists and extend that break to San Bartolomé, against the opinion of its own councilors.
After that, the PIL councilors in Arrecife and San Bartolomé sent a statement this Wednesday in which they questioned the reasons given by the leadership to break the pact with the PSOE and announced that they will not abandon their government groups despite their possible expulsion. In addition to attacking José Marcial González, in the press release they accused the president of the PIL, Ramón Bermúdez, of acting "as a satellite of CC", stressing that he receives a salary as a released official through the Ministry of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands, in the hands of CC.
"We know that they can investigate us, expel us and even treat us as defectors. This situation with our party that we do not deserve affects us a lot," said the PIL councilors in the statement, in which they pointed out that they would not attend "more calls or instructions from the president or vice presidents, until they demonstrate that their decisions are impartial and are far from particular interests."
