Canarian Coalition in Icod de los Vinos seeks its first absolute majority and incorporates into its lists its government partner in this term and local leader of Ciudadanos; while in San Juan de la Rambla they seem once again condemned to agree on a municipal corporation in which Manuel Reyes will not be and representatives of up to six different parties could enter: PSOE, CC, PP, NC, AUP-SSP and Vox.
Four absolute majorities and two government pacts will be submitted to the evaluation of the polls on 28M in La Matanza and La Victoria de Acentejo, Santa Úrsula, La Guancha, Icod de los Vinos and San Juan de la Rambla. Six towns with very different political realities and an incombustible leader like Ignacio Rodríguez (PSOE) from Matanzas, who is on his way to making history if he manages to chain, as all forecasts predict, the eleventh absolute majority followed by him. He is on his way to shortly celebrate 40 years at the head of the Mayor’s Office of his town.
San Juan de la Rambla
PSOE and CC (no longer the initials of AIS) have governed in this mandate and will have to compete at the polls with PP, NC, Vox and AUP-SSP, which at the beginning of the mandate governed alongside the PSOE. San Juan de la Rambla Somos Todos, the party of former mayor Manuel Reyes, disappears and its two councilors are looking for a new owner. The Socialists face the polls for the first time with the current mayor, Ezequiel Domínguez, with the advantage that he already knows what it is to agree with the AUP-SSP of Juan Siverio or with the CC of Juan Ramos. PP, Vox and NC will try to be key in the future formation of the government.
the guancha
Antonio Hernández’s PP chooses to revalidate its absolute majority against Canarian Coalition, PSOE and Vox, which appears in La Guancha and could subtract some votes from the popular ones. The nationalists repeat with Alejandro Herrera, who will try to improve his results from four years ago, when he achieved five mayors, to now open the possibility of a different government from the current one being formed. The PSOE, which came to govern La Guancha in the past, is now unknown.
Icod of the Wines
The Canarian Coalition stayed close to an absolute majority in the Ciudad del Drago in 2019 and now the nationalist Francis gonzalez will have to fight for votes with Javier Sierra’s Icodense Alternative, David Alonso’s renewed PSOE, a surprising PNC (which does not appear in any other municipality in the North), Vox, citizens (with their historic local leader José Sunday Alonso now enrolled in the ranks of CC as an independent) and the Popular Party, headed by the former insular nationalist councilor Cory Yanes, who was the rival of Francis González in 2014 the internal primaries of CC to lead the 2015 candidacy. The distribution of votes between seven parties can complicate the accounts, but in CC they are going for an absolute majority, despite the fact that the PNC and Cory Yanes’s PP are launching themselves for the fishing ground of nationalist votes. Alternativa Icodense is the second local political force and the PSOE wants to start redeeming itself and take advantage of the disappearance of Somos Icodenses.
Saint Ursula
With more than 15,000 inhabitants, Santa Úrsula is the municipality in the North with the largest population and the fewest electoral alternatives. The absolute majority of AISU, with Juan Acosta who repeats and doubles the Cabildo de Tenerife at number 5 on the list of Rosa Davila, will be threatened only by the PP, PSOE and Vox candidates. The popular premiere headlining with Estela Fernández. The Socialists opt for Raquel Conejo and Vox presents another woman: Mariana Cueva.
Acentejo’s Victory
The PSOE of Juan Antonio García Abreu governs with an absolute majority that in 2019 was a surprise and now he must show if he came to stay or the municipality will have to seek government pacts again. He will compete with CC, which changes its bill and bets on Dulce Gutiérrez; with the PP, which also changes its leader after a convulsive mandate and opts for Juan Adonais Pérez. New Canary Islandswith Vicente Pérez, and Vox, who will try to achieve representation.
The Acentejo Massacre
No changes since 1983 and nothing suggests that the 2023 elections will be too different. Ignacio Rodríguez (PSOE) is going for the eleventh absolute majority followed with the peace of mind of knowing that he obtained almost 80% of the votes 4 years ago. Opposite him will be the PP, which obtained two councillors, and two parties that currently have no representation: CC and Vox. If the current mayor wins again, he will exceed 40 years in office and set course for 44 years with the baton.
