Yesterday’s plenary session was not a positive day for the PSOE, the majority formation in the Cabildo government team. On the one hand, he lost the votes of his amendments to the motions of the South train or the honors to outstanding women. In addition, he withdrew the proposal to urgently eliminate the Francoist vestiges in Santa Cruz due to the reluctance of the opposition. An opposition that reached out during the plenary session with the intention of “changing the support to govern” that today are the two directors of Ciudadanos and the three of Sí Podemos Canarias (from outside). The Popular Party threw down the gauntlet on two occasions and the Canary Coalition on another when discussing the South train. Both formations coincide in providing this support, prior agreement with the government team, so that the issues “of general interest for Tenerife” are approved with a large majority of the political forces.
“You will have our support if you require it for matters of great substance”
Manuel Fernández, popular spokesman, confirmed it after the plenary session: «The Popular Party has offered Pedro Martin stability in the current government team of the Cabildo de Tenerife until the end of the legislature». He adds that the objective is “to carry out the great projects that Tenerife has pending and that are not promoted in a decisive and courageous way by the pact that the PSOE maintains with Sí Podemos Canarias.
Fernández stresses that “this support is not conditional on the Popular Party becoming part of the government team.” The popular councilor values: “We offer the PSOE to free itself from the political rope – in plenary he even mentioned that the insular government is kidnapped – to which it is tied with that agreement.” In the opinion of the PP, “Tenerife cannot remain stagnant in its economic and social development because opportunities to boost this island are lost.”
Fernández reflects: “The Cabildo de Tenerife has to exercise the leadership that corresponds to it due to the importance of this administration.” And he concludes: “Even more so with the economic and social situation that we have had to live through as a result of the crisis as a result of the covid-19 pandemic.”
“Since the beginning of the mandate we have offered ourselves for a great pact for the Island”
For his part, Carlos Alonso, CC spokesman, also verbally extended his hand during the plenary session. He explains in this regard that “from the beginning we have reached out to them. And the PSOE has always rejected it. He sentences the nationalist leader with the memory of some words that he already said in 2020: “If I were the president, I would have already designed a concentration government in the Cabildo with a great pact for the Island.”
In the government team, according to the sources consulted, they do not believe the proposal and take the offer with skepticism. They consider it another hit in the line of “entangle and wear”.
