“I owe my people here and I stay in El Rosario.” This is how the mayor of Rosario, Escolástico Gil (IR-Verdes) settled the rumors that he would be a candidate for Nueva Canary Islands (NC) to the Council of Tenerife. Gil’s words came at a press conference together with the NC leader, Román Rodríguez, in which they announced an “alliance to provide mutual support” in the City Hall, the Cabildo and the Parliament of the Canary Islands.
The above does not mean that both formations are going to unite their acronyms. From NC they specified that the decision seeks to “expand progressive Canarianism in the next May elections” and that El Rosario and Tenerife “continue to prosper.” «IR-Greens is a force policy with history, with tradition,” Rodríguez stated at the beginning of his speech, adding that NC would not exist “if it were not for the municipal space.”
The confluence with Iniciativa por El Rosario-Verdes is, according to the nc president“a clearly transformative political space committed to the people, the environment, progress and democracy”. «The collaborations between the City Council of El Rosario and the Vice Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands They have been fruitful,” Gil said.
Although the local councilor closed the door to go on the NC list to the Cabildo, he opened channels towards the future. «It is true that these first steps now are very modest, very humble, very basic, but they are firm. Time will tell what we are capable of building from them. And that will be after May 28,” he said.
«Now it’s time to win again in El Rosario. We are defending a way of managing from good governance. Tenerife is watching us, we are aware, but Tenerife can wait.”later indicated the mayor of El Rosario, who described the agreement reached as “honest, clean, transparent and clear”, as well as a pact “from loyalty”.
Gil also highlighted that the agreement signed this Friday “represents a model for the future for independent municipal forces like ours, with whom we want to maintain contact and expand relations on a horizontal level of equality in Tenerife.” And he added: «To reach that horizon you have to share a vision that goes far beyond an electoral appointment. We still have separate strategies and the agreement we have signed is the one we could sign without forcing each other’s strategy.”
