The councilor of Lanzarote en Pie - Sí Podemos in the City Council of San Bartolomé, Maite Gorriz, has submitted her resignation, less than two years after having acceded to the position. In addition, together with her, the next three on the list have also submitted their “early resignation”, informing the City Council that they will not take office as councilors.
The councilor actually registered her resignation almost two months ago, on February 10, but until now it had not come to light. It will be this Friday when it becomes official, when it is taken to the City Council Plenary, together with that of her three colleagues.
The numbers two, three and four on the list were Gara Concepción Curbelo, Sergio José Corujo Fontes and Miguel Ángel Puig Tuya, who have already announced that they are renouncing to join the Corporation as councilors. The next on the list is Antonio Ruiz Gutiérrez, who is the one who now corresponds to occupy the act, when the discharge of his partner is formally processed.
The same week of the crisis with Leticia Padilla and Ramiro Muñoz
Although her resignation had not been known until now, Maite Gorriz registered it the same week in which the resignations of the councilor of Arrecife Leticia Padilla and the councilor of the party in Yaiza, Ramiro Muñoz, were known. However, in the case of these two councilors, they have continued in office assuring that they do so under the umbrella of “Lanzarote en Pie”.
That was the name given to the confluence with which the purple formation presented itself to the last elections on the island, and which was finally only formed by Podemos and Equo. This made other people from civil society enter the lists, such as Maite Gorriz herself, who at that time was part of the 8-M Feminist Platform.
The Podemos circle in San Bartolomé had been dismantled after the crisis that the party went through shortly before the last elections, which resulted in the departure of who was its general secretary and spokesperson in the Cabildo, Carlos Meca, together with who had been the island leadership and a good part of the public officials and members of the party in several municipalities.
Two months ago, Podemos faced this new crisis, with the departure of Leticia Padilla and Ramiro Muñoz, who, unlike other people who ran in the last elections on those lists, did belong to the purple formation.
The confluence with which Podemos presented itself to the 2019 elections obtained representation in four city councils (Arrecife with three councilors and Tías, Yaiza, Teguise with one). Now, in two of them it has seen how its councilors abandoned the party's discipline and in San Bartolomé it faces these resignations of the first four on the list.
