Without giving names "because they would be dismissed today", the president of the Party of Independents of Lanzarote (PIL), Antonio Hernández, said that next week he will meet with the councilors of Arrecife and Teguise loyal to the nationalist formation to agree with the internal bodies of the party on their departure from government responsibilities in said municipalities and, consequently, the move to the ranks of the opposition.
Hernández also denounced that all PIL public officials, including those of the Cabildo, are tired of the "unbearable harassment" of those who govern in the institutions and that precisely in the face of this persecution he will propose, in the case of Arrecife and Teguise, that the councilors step aside.
The president of the PIL assured that those councilors who do not submit to the guidelines set by María Isabel Déniz, in Arrecife, and by Juan Pedro Hernández, in Teguise, will be expelled from the government group, as already happened with councilor José Dimas Martín, son of the historical leader of the party, who was dismissed from his responsibilities in the Consistory of La Villa.
Pressures in the Cabildo
Regarding the Cabildo councilors María José Docal and Plácida Guerra, Hernández maintained, they are completely relegated by the government group. According to him, they are not convened to participate in the informative commissions and even less in the investigation commission that will try to verify if there was or was not resale of tickets in the Centers of Art, Culture and Tourism. The president of the PIL also accused the government group of refusing to give them an office in the Cabildo, of not answering the questions that the councilors ask in the plenary sessions and of not even collecting those concerns in the respective minutes. "In addition, they have blocked the economic contributions that by law all parties must receive and, however, the PIL has not received them for quite some time," Hernández stressed, who publicly thanked the councilors Docal and Guerra for their loyalty to the party and their commitment to the voters. Curiously, neither of them attended the plenary session held this Friday.
Most voted party
The president of the PIL highlighted, to strengthen his exposition, that it is totally incomprehensible and absurd that the most voted party on the Island and with the greatest representation in the Cabildo does not have the right to have a spokesperson. He insisted that the five councilors of the first Corporation, who abandoned the PIL ranks and appropriated the minutes to declare themselves militants of another organization (Assembly for Lanzarote), should be called turncoats. "It is unfair that the supposed spokesperson for the PIL, whenever he can, says that he belongs to another party," Hernández commented. "The turncoats of the PIL have control in the Cabildo thanks to the Socialist Party and the Canarian Coalition," he added.
Also in Parliament
More of the same, the PIL highlighted, happens in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, where Celso Betancor and María Isabel Déniz, Hernández assured, have appropriated the voice of the party that led them to obtain parliamentary seats. Antonio Hernández asked if the two regional parliamentarians have secretly agreed with Adán Martín and Paulino Rivero to appropriate the representativeness of the PIL in the Chamber and harass all those who refuse to follow their postulates.
Likewise, he denounced that the parliamentarian who holds the true representation of the PIL is not allowed to use the computer and is not given the necessary time to express the party's initiatives. "We cannot bring the voice of the people of Lanzarote to Parliament, much less fulfill our commitments," the president added.
