After years of wandering in the desert, the Canarian PSOE has been enjoying undisguised optimism in recent times. The recovery of the Government in Madrid and the more recent Juan Fernando effect opened the way to a ...
After years of wandering in the desert, the Canarian PSOE has been enjoying undisguised optimism in recent times. The recovery of the Government in Madrid and the more recent Juan Fernando effect opened the way to a pre-election phase marked by favorable expectations for the future.
In Lanzarote, the PSOE of Lanzarote also started as well positioned, despite the strong erosion suffered by the political class after two disastrous legislatures for the institutions of Lanzarote, with all the surveys to date coinciding in projecting very positive electoral results for the socialists of Lanzarote.
It is surprising that at this point we are once again guessing the clouds of a gap between the local and island executives, on the one hand, and the regional one on the other, due to the election of the candidate for Mayor of Arrecife. A gap that, should it occur, would draw the paradox of a candidate without any support in his own party.
It seems logical that on other islands such as Gran Canaria, where Jerónimo Saavedra has almost unanimous support and guarantees of greater personal electoral pull, his candidacy has been chosen instead of that of Arcadio Díaz Tejera, who had obtained exponential growth after long years of socialist ostracism in the Mayor's Office of Las Palmas.
Back on our island, the decision of the regional executive to prevent the holding of primaries or assemblies in Arrecife could also be assumed if there were a star candidate whose suitability was shared by all. However, perceptions about the electoral value of the candidates are very different depending on whether they are viewed from a regional or island perspective.
Last Tuesday night, the Local Executive Committee of Arrecife, as well as the Island Executive, unanimously agreed to endorse the candidacies of Carmelo García Déniz, Nuria Cabrera or Emilia Osuna. While the party on the island opted for the trajectory and experience of candidates such as Carmelo García Déniz, a man of consensus who enjoys the sympathy of all factions of island socialism, or Nuria Cabrera, who has been able to deal with important responsibilities in the capital's City Council, prominent regional leaders outline a theoretical greater electoral baggage of Manuela Armas, a woman with a good public image but with important detractors within her own party. And in this scenario, some are even talking about Enrique Pérez Parrilla again as a possible candidate, despite the fact that to date, his demands have prevented him from appearing in the local pools of mayoral candidates.
Whatever candidacy is finally chosen, the mere possibility of an internal battle in the PSOE, of a candidate without internal support, and let's not even mention a management team that governs the party on the island, has its political adversaries rubbing their hands.
