The breaking of the pact of the Arrecife City Council is already official. Shortly after one in the afternoon, the four socialist councilors resigned from their respective areas in the registry of the capital's Consistory, after the formal meeting with the mayor, María Isabel Déniz.
"In principle, and I think we all agree on that, we are leaving against our will, since I believe that there were no problems with this pact, and we have not been given logical reasons to break the pact either, but we are very disciplined and we do what we have been ordered from the Island Executive". Nuria Cabrera was so blunt, a few minutes after delegating her responsibility in the councilorships of Urban Planning, Police and Security, in addition to her position as deputy mayor.
For the moment, the socialists have committed to collaborate with all those proposals that are brought to the Plenary and that are of general interest to the citizens. Although some, like Nuria Cabrera, have assured that ultimately, "the responsibility and ethics are mine, and I am not going to change them", referring to the possible orders that come from the Island Executive, at the same time that Carmelo García Déniz indicated that "he will abide by the orders", and in case of lack of understanding, he will follow the example of his colleague Óscar Torres.
This decision was made on Wednesday night, during the Island Executive held at the party headquarters. In addition to establishing a Management Board in the Local Group, the councilors of the capital's Consistory were asked to leave "the Government group immediately". In this way, for the island socialists it was "clear the willingness of the councilors to abide by these instructions", since "there is only one Socialist Party and it responds in a unitary manner", so this Thursday they had to present the letter of resignation from their positions.
The decision was made with one abstention and two votes against, after part of the councilors of the City Council, among whom were Carmelo García Déniz and Emilia Osuna, in addition to Óscar Torres, who resigned from his position on his own initiative this Tuesday, left the Executive during the vote.
The Island considers that the Arrecife pact is "unviable", after the break in the Cabildo occurred due to a "total and absolute loss of confidence with CC". They returned, in this way, to refer to the press conference "inopportune, impertinent and unacceptable", which was carried out by Coalición Canaria, and which led to the breaking of the Government pact in the First Institution.
With this decision, the PSOE leadership assures that it "closes a page", and "resolves the internal affairs" that have confronted the Local Group with the Island since the appointment of Enrique Pérez Parrilla as candidate for mayor of Arrecife. Although on this matter, Miguel Ángel Leal returned to assure last Monday, in a meeting in which he received the support of almost a hundred militants, that the Arrecife Plan has been the cause of these disagreements. In fact, the initial approval of the Plan, on which the Government group had assured that it would take place in this legislature, is in doubt with this decision.
Distribution of areas
The mayor of Arrecife, María Isabel Déniz, has indicated that she will assume the responsibility delegated to the socialist councilors, until next week, when she will start working on the distribution of the areas. However, Déniz has added that she will need "the collaboration of the councilors in the areas where they were, to complete a series of pending issues".
Other matters
The Island Executive also served to determine the Electoral Committee that Carlos Espino heads this year, replacing Miguel Ángel Leal, in charge of coordinating the campaign in the last four legislatures. Espino has notified that the secretaries of the Local Groups and Miguel González, communication secretary of the PSC, will be present in the Committee. The recent dissolution of the Executive Commission of Arrecife and the dismissal of its secretary leaves Miguel Ángel Leal out of this Committee.
