The world of sports has burst into the candidacies presented by the different parties for the elections on May 26 in Lanzarote, in some cases within the body of the list and others even leading the slates. That is the case of handball player Javier Aday Lemes, who is Ciudadanos' candidate for Mayor of San Bartolomé; or the president of the Unión Norte Wrestling Club, Manuel Alejandro Fernández, who is the head of the list of Contigo Somos Democracia to the Haría City Council.
In the case of CC, Maciot-Ruyman Dévora, who played for UD Lanzarote for many years, holds the number 23 position on the CC candidacy for the Cabildo, which also includes Ángel Onasis Delgado, former president of the Canary Islands Sailing Federation, who is also number eight on the CC list for the Yaiza City Council. For his part, the current UD Lanzarote player, Rosmen, is part of the CC candidacy for the Arrecife City Council, in which he is number nine, and which also includes Abraham Manuel Pérez, who is a football referee and occupies the number 24 position.
As for the former Real Madrid B and UD Lanzarote player who currently plays for CD Tinajo, Jotha, he occupies the sixth position on the list headed by Jesús Machín for said municipality, which also includes the surfer Franito Sáenz in the number 10 position. Likewise, the triathlete Lionel Morales, who participated in the Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games, also repeats as an alternate in the CC candidacy for the Haría City Council.
Athletes on the PP lists
The Popular Party has also included multiple athletes on its lists, especially in the candidacy for the Yaiza City Council, where you can find the coach of the Tinajo Women's Wrestling Club, Patricio Cazorla, the triathlete Gregorio Cáceres and the coach and president of the Tinyala Basketball Club, Salvador Bueno, who occupy the seventh, ninth and eleventh positions respectively.
For his part, the coordinator of Inter Playa Honda, José Antonio Rial, appears at number 14 on the PP list for the Cabildo and at number seven on the candidacy for the San Bartolomé City Council, followed in this case by another athlete, the coach of the Zonzamas Handball Club, Patrocinio Antonio Barambio. Of the popular candidacies, specifically the list for the Tías City Council, also included is the handball coach and president of CB Puerto del Carmen, Félix Montelongo, who is number eighteen. And on the PP list in Teguise, Alejandro Ramírez, a Lanzarote judoka with a great track record, is number five.
The PSOE also includes several personalities from the sports world
Some personalities from the world of sports are also running with the PSOE, specifically the member of the Spanish Golf Federation, Jasón Pérez O'Pray, who appears as an alternate on the list for Parliament or the former national basketball referee, Juan Carlos Rodríguez de Rada, who occupies the number 22 position on the list for the Cabildo. Also part of it as number eight is Hugo Ricardo Delgado, who is a football referee.
As for the candidacies for the city councils, number six on the list for Arrecife, Roy González has been vice president of UD Lanzarote and for 8 years delegate of the first team. The socialists' candidacy for the Tías City Council also includes two athletes, specifically the trail runner Christopher Notario and the karateka Araceli Guerrero, in the ninth and fourteenth positions respectively.
Other athletes in different candidacies
Other athletes who are part of candidacies for Lanzarote institutions are Basilio Coco, coach of Orientación Marítima, who is running as number four for Somos Lanzarote-Nueva Canarias for the Arrecife City Council or the second coach of UD Lanzarote, Aday Jesús Gil, who is also a candidate for the capital's Consistory, although in this case as number six for Lanzarote Avanza. For this electoral coalition, made up of Unidos por Yaiza and PIL, Rafael Tavío Hill, who is a football referee, has also been included in the seventh position of the candidacy for the Cabildo.
In the candidacies for the Arrecife City Council, there are also the former footballer Ayoze Berriel and the basketball player Abraham Romero, who are running with the Socialist Group of Lanzarote, in the ninth and twentieth positions; and David Martín Guillén, who is a football referee and is part of the Fuerza Vecinal Lanzarote list, appearing in the fourteenth position.
The president of the Unión Sur Yaiza Wrestling Club, Emilio José Machín Borges, has been included as number two on the CC list for the Yaiza City Council, while the club's coach, Ángel Manuel Lago, is running as eighth on the Lanzarote Avanza list for the Yaiza City Council.
Public positions linked to sports that are repeated on the lists
To the faces of sports that are now joining politics, we must add those who are already public officials and are also related to the sports world and who will compete in the May elections, as is the case of the mayor of Tinajo and candidate for re-election, Jesús Machín, linked to the world of motorsports, to which is also associated the former PSOE councilor in Tías, Antimo Valiente, who is now running as number 19 of Lanzarote Avanza to the Cabildo.
For the Cabildo, it is also worth mentioning the candidate for the presidency for Ciudadanos, David Rodríguez, who was already a PP councilor in the Arrecife City Council and is a national futsal referee, as is the current councilor of the Cabildo and candidate for Mayor of Teguise for the PSOE, Marcos Bergaz, who is also number two on the list for the island's first institution. Mame Fernández, former councilor of Tías and candidate of Lanzarote Avanza for the Mayor of this municipality, is also linked to the world of football, in this case as a coach. For Tías, it is also worth highlighting the current PP councilor, Aroa Pérez, linked to handball and who in the May elections will be number three on the electoral slate.