Employment and the island’s economy are supported by the two reference tourist municipalities: Arona and Adeje. In the next four years, stability and security will be essential to maintain urban development and tourism. With that key, adejeros and aroneros face the municipal elections 28M with the benchmark of 59.31% and 62.09% abstention, respectively. Encouraging participation is the challenge of all parties.
The Socialists manage the tourist municipalities of reference, those that sustain the employment and the island’s economy: Adeje and Arona. Together, they account for around 60% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Tenerife. In the electoral field, there are aspects that differentiate them in a notable way. On one side, Adeje has a census of 21,544 voters, while in Arona there are 43,624; Adejeros voters can choose between six candidacies, Arronero voters have 10 options.
The mandate that is about to end has also been lived unevenly in both municipalities. In the case of Adeje, its municipal government has dealt with some controversy, such as the one referring to the construction of the Cuna del Alma tourist complexin El Puerto. However, in Arona the municipal government was broken in half from within, they wanted to make the mayor resign, whom they expelled from the party, but he claimed vindication with the file by the Prosecutor’s Office of the complaint of his former government colleagues and with a judicial victory that forced the PSOE to reinstate him. In the end, those who broke the government group and the Socialist Party in Arona are out of it, keep the minutes as councilors and attend the elections with a formation policy own. However, Mena is again the brand and the poster of the socialists of this May 28.
Arona
With that panorama, Arona will experience an election day that will mark her future. With the General Planning Plan yet to be drawn up and approved, the traffic chaos in Los Cristianos due to port activity, with the future of said infrastructure at stake, the lack of educational equipment, Los Tarajales beach in limbo, the rehabilitation of Ten-Bel under way and the development of the El Mojón Partial Plan in the offing, among other not trivial issues, the aroneros will examine José Julián Mena on the last Sunday of the month.
The PSOE redirected the situation and bet on who led its second absolute majority of the democratic stage. The socialist candidate knows that these elections have a motto: all against Mena. At least, that’s what most of his rivals say. The surveys They draw another panorama in which the PSOE does not revalidate the absolute majority, but is close. There are also (the least) that point to a disaster that would make it impossible for him to continue in the Mayor’s Office.
Opposite, Ore will have CC with a candidate who was part of the municipal government of 2011mandate in which José Alberto was disqualified gonzalez Reverón, present at the arrival of Clara María Pérez to the political front row in Arona. The Popular Party opts for Fátima Lemes, a new face and a commitment to the future. United Sí Podemos is renewed with Lucas Casañas, who was ranked 23rd in the same CC candidacy with which the convicted nationalist ex-mayor won in 2011. New Canary Islands, with Nauzet Fariña; Movement for the People, with Juan Luis Hernández Hernández; Drago, with Antonella Aliotti, formerly of Podemos; Canary Force, with Emilio Lentini; VOX, with Naim Valero, and Más por Arona, with the former socialist Dácil Lion and the remaining six councilors who left the PSOE, complete the options for the Aronero voters. Everyone plays a lot here.
adeje
Jose Miguel Rodriguez Fraga has all the ballots for revalidate the absolute majority that has been repeating since 1991. The socialist mayor lost a councilor in 2019 compared to 2015, but the PSOE arrives with May 14 to 28, double the number of the three opposition parties. In this case, all the polls agree that the Socialists do not give in and the new absolute majority will make Rodríguez Fraga reach 40 years as mayor next year 2027. The campaign, once again, focuses on sowing doubts about the figure of the councilor and urban management. The statistics reflect that the first absolute majority of him was the smallest, 12, reaching the maximum in 2003, with 17 councillors.
On this occasion, Partido Popular (for the second consecutive time) and Canarian Coalition They present candidacies led by women. The conservatives are betting on the current councilor, Marta Isabel Lorenzo, who replaced during this term the one who led the electoral list four years ago, Marta Inés Vera. The nationalists do it for Patricia León. The popular ones have never achieved more than two councilors; the best result of the nationalists has been six, in 2011 and in 1987, when they still used the initials of the ATI. United Yes We Can repeat with Gabriel González, who has practiced a very critical opposition; VOX competes with Christian Pablo Comellas and Más Canarias presents Francesco Calvaruso. In Adeje, it seems that the situation is clear, except for an unforeseen event.
