The torch of concord "ignites controversy" in Tinajo

The torch of concord "ignites controversy" in Tinajo

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April 19 2012 (14:18 WEST)
The torch of concord "ignites controversy" in Tinajo
The torch of concord "ignites controversy" in Tinajo

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The torch of concord has ignited controversy in Tinajo, municipality where its journey began. The PP councilor in this City Council, Carmen Rosa Pérez, expressed her "total rejection" of the "partisan proclamations" that, according to her version, were pronounced by the mayor, Jesús Machín, during the lighting of the torch. "They are absolutely inappropriate for a mayor who at that moment acts as the institutional representative of a Corporation," she criticized.

Carmen Rosa Pérez assured that she finds it "shameful" that Jesús Machín "uses an event of these characteristics to launch his political proclamations, forgetting that his presence in said act is due to his position as mayor and not as president of the Canarian Coalition." The PP councilor indicated that Machín expressed his satisfaction because the torch began its journey "in an independentist municipality and ended in another of the same political sign."

For Carmen Rosa Pérez, these words are "absolutely out of place, since they are more typical of a ruler from cacique eras than from a democratic stage." The councilor of the Popular Party regretted that "the verbal excesses in which the mayor usually falls lead him to commit these disrespects both to those present, for the symbolism that this purely sporting event has already consolidated on the island, and to the residents of the municipality themselves."

Carmen Rosa Pérez pointed out that the fact that the residents of Tinajo have mostly supported the political option she represents "does not mean that they have given him carte blanche so that wherever he goes, the condition of nationalist political leader prevails over that of mayor who represents an institution and, therefore, each and every one of the citizens."

The councilor of the Popular Party asked the mayor to be "a little more prudent" so that his political condition "does not negatively affect the image of the institution itself," which according to Carmen Rosa Pérez "is above any political option, including mine."

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