Amidst great media expectation, the extraordinary session of the Island Executive Committee of the PSC named this Tuesday the socialist candidates they intend to present for the upcoming elections. Manuel Fajardo will once again head the list for the Island Council, despite his name being considered in recent weeks as a possible candidate for the Arrecife City Council. The decision was made "unanimously by all members of the Island Executive, including the local general secretaries," assured Miguel González, the party's Communication Secretary.
However, the unknowns remain as to who will be the candidate for the Mayor of Arrecife. The socialists of Lanzarote have already made their bet: Carmelo García Déniz, Nuria Cabrera, or Emilia Osuna should head the list according to the Island Executive of the PSOE, which unanimously accepted the proposal submitted by the Local Executive Committee of Arrecife. But now, the big question is whether the regional leadership of the party will accept one of these names for Arrecife. A question that will be cleared up next Saturday the 7th, when, according to Miguel González, "the colleagues who are part of that body, who are Manuel Fajardo and Antonio González themselves, will be in charge of defending these proposals".
For the moment, González has already advanced some of the arguments that have weighed in proposing those three names. "They are colleagues with a long socialist trajectory, who have shown their worth and their capacity," said the Secretary of Communication of the PSC in Lanzarote. Precisely in this argument is also based the decision to leave out of that shortlist Manuela Armas, who was also emerging as a possible candidate for the Mayor of Arrecife, and who seems to have the approval of the Regional Executive of the party.
Final decision: Regional Executive
Thus, and although it seems that Manuel Fajardo as head of the list of the Island Council is a safe bet, there may still be some surprises regarding the candidates proposed for the Arrecife City Council, "since the Regional Executive will decide with its superior criteria which candidates to choose," explained Miguel González. The Secretary of Communication also assured that there is no type of "open" confrontation with the Regional leadership of the party, although he admitted that "it is true that there are differences of criteria and different ways of seeing things, because we are different islands and different party colleagues".
Miguel González also added that changes may occur in the names of the candidates proposed by the Island Executive "because the decision is made by the Federal Committee of the Party", which will be held in Madrid three months before the elections. "Although the democratic tradition of this party indicates that what is proposed by the Local and Island Executives is maintained until the end
Do not accept impositions
Nuria Cabrera, a possible candidate for the Mayor of Arrecife, warned last Monday, October 3, that it will not be accepted that the Regional Executive makes the decisions, since "because of how the Assembly of Arrecife is and how the militants are, in no case will an imposition be accepted just like that". Cabrera also encouraged the governing bodies of her party to continue along the marked channels. "Let's not stop proposing because they have taken away the assembly, because now we have another body that is the Local Executive and if they are there it has been with the confidence of the militants".
