Eduardo Santos Dominguez He presented his resignation to the act of councilor for the Canarian Coalition (CC) in the Arona Town Hall. He did it last Friday, hours after the Plenary became aware of the departure of his party partner Dacil Maria Garcia, who announced his resignation on January 28. With this, CC loses three of the mayors with whom he began the mandate. It should be remembered that on July 12, 2019, his candidate resigned, Antonio Garcia Marichal, to join his job, in the same aronero Consistory. All this is part of a “process of internal reorganization of the municipal group for professional and personal reasons.”
This is assured by Francisco Linares, general secretary of the Canarian Coalition of Tenerife, who makes it clear that “there is no internal problem” in the local committee of the aroneros nationalists. Despite the fact that in the same plenary session (held last Thursday), the only two CC councilors present broke the voting discipline by approving the modification of the ordinance that regulates the contribution. Eduardo Santos voted yes and Yaiza Arteaga abstained.
Francisco Linares denies that it is due to internal problems and points out that “we armed ourselves to govern again”
The local CC committee in Arona “continues to work normally” and with Antonio García Marichal as head of it, as municipal general secretary. He is the one who is responsible for leading the local process to designate the candidate of this political formation for Mayor in the elections to be held next year, he explains.
“When you are in the opposition, it is sometimes difficult to balance political responsibilities with professional and personal life.” As he explains, these are the reasons that led Dácil García and Eduardo Santos to formalize their resignations and leave the Consistory. “When that happens, a step is taken to the side and other colleagues on the list take on the opposition tasks,” he points out.
Francisco Linares maintains that “that is all. Arona’s problem is not in the Canarian Coalition, it is in the PSOE, which continues to be fragmented and broken at the local level, harming daily management in order to solve the problems of the citizenry.” In this context, the insular general secretary of the nationalists emphasizes that “Canarian Coalition does not govern in Arona”. In fact, it has not done so since in 2015 it lost the absolute majority that it obtained in 2007, after years of controversy and complaints that led to the disqualification of the nationalist mayor in that period, José Alberto González Reverón. Several open pieces still remain unjudged as a result of the management of the absolute majority governments obtained by CC.
Seven years after the loss of municipal power, Francisco Linares acknowledges that “now we are arming ourselves to govern again and put an end to the current misrule of José Julián Mena. We are looking for the best possible group to face the next electoral call”, concludes.
José Ramón Rodríguez, current spokesperson, and Yaiza Arteaga are the only two representatives that CC has maintained since the beginning of the mandate, for which it has a Municipal Group made up of four councillors.
