The bad thing about asking is that sometimes you can be given something you don't like. And when the island leadership of CC turned to the highest bodies of the party in the Canary Islands, asking for their support against the critical voices of ...
The bad thing about asking is that sometimes you can be given something you don't like. And when the island leadership of CC turned to the highest bodies of the party in the Canary Islands, asking for their support against the critical voices of Lanzarote, they ran the risk that the remedy would be worse than the disease. And judging by the reaction of Jesús Machín, it seems that this has been the case.
Now, the island president assures that they are already "old enough" to solve their problems alone, without the need for two mediators appointed from outside to come and put order on the island. And what he was looking for was unconditional support from Claudina Morales and Paulino Rivero, but he has found the opposite.
In fact, the designation of two mediators implies the legitimization of a sector of CC that, until now, Jesús Machín has strived to show as residual. And this demonstrates once again that the critical current is not only made up of three or four "undisciplined" people or with "different sensitivities".
The party has been deepening a crisis for months that, at this point, does seem to need mediators. Because, even apart from the debate of who has the numerical majority in the Executive, in the Island Political Council or in the different local committees, the facts demonstrate that the situation is unsustainable. And not only for the party, but also for the institutions.
Nine months after the previous agreements between the PSOE and the PIL were broken in the majority of the island's institutions, as a result of Operation "Unión", the island leadership of CC has only managed to get its proposal for agreements in the Cabildo of Lanzarote forward. In the other five town councils that depended on CC to regain stability, Jesús Machín has not managed to make his position prosper, despite the months of debate that have passed. And instead, the local committees have begun to act, forming new government groups on their own and further evidencing the internal fracture of the party.
However, Jesús Machín insists that he holds the majority and that he is going to impose it by means of disciplinary proceedings and expulsions. But the reality is that CC is currently governing in Yaiza, after expelling the PIL through a motion of censure, and that the councilor of Tías has been part of the socialist government group in the Town Hall of Tías for two weeks. And in this second case, not even a file has been opened against her yet, or at least it has not been made public.
Two weeks after Jessica Suárez adopted that decision, supported according to her words by the Local Committee of the party in Tías, there have only been public statements by Jesús Machín and some other member of the island leadership discrediting her, but not an official press release, nor an organic meeting. Only a meeting with Paulino Rivero and Claudina Morales, which did not give the fruits that Machín expected, and a press conference by the Secretary of Organization of the Local Committee of Tías, assuring that those who reject the decision of the councilor are the majority. However, the lack of concrete action against her shows that the councilor did not act on her own and at her own risk, as they intend to show, but supported at least by an important sector of Coalición Canaria.
And to this situation we must add the failure of the negotiations in San Bartolomé, where the PSOE won by hand and managed to close a new majority, and the bizarre case of Teguise, where after presenting a motion of censure together with the PSOE, to unseat the PIL, CC decided not to incorporate the socialists into the government group and ended up staying with a minority government. And now, Juan Pedro Hernández sees himself with a year and a half of legislature ahead, but with two parties in the opposition who, after what happened, will ask the body for more revenge than agreements.
And in this scenario, instead of seeking the support of the higher bodies of the party, the island leadership should perhaps have tried to assume its mistakes as well. And even more so if they really wanted to resolve this, as they say now, without external interference. Because it is evident that CC has gone from having a strategic position to govern in almost the entire island, to being on the verge of breaking up and with complicated institutional situations. And all this, while its true adversaries in the polls, such as the PIL and the PNL, are rubbing their hands.
The supposed search for the unity of nationalism has not served to add, but to subtract, once again dividing Coalición Canaria. And it is that regardless of who holds the majority, or whether or not the numbers add up to get a decision forward in some party body, it is reckless to act ignoring so many opposition fronts. Because neither can leadership be imposed, nor can a party be presided over with a calculator in hand.
