The mayor of Puerto de la Cruz, Marco González, has won the elections again with two more councilors than in 2019 and only 11 votes kept him from achieving the most precious goal for any candidate: an absolute majority.
He does not rule out governing in a minority, but neither does he reissue the pact signed in 2019 with the Portuense Citizen Assembly (ACP). Therefore, it confirms that it will open that door to dialogue and conversations, which it will also extend to the rest of the political formations, that is, the PP and CC.
“We are still waiting for the entire electoral process to end and from that moment on we will start talking. What is clear is that we won the elections and having ten councilors and not eight positions you so that the negotiation is the fairest and most dignified for those who have placed your trust ”, she underlines.
His government partner and ACP candidate, David Hernández, and the first person who called him to congratulate him, takes the glove, but makes it clear that it is the PSOE, being the winning party in the elections, the one that has to take the initiative for future negotiations with a view to repeating the progress pact that, he considers, “has been good for the city”.
ACP has lost a mayor in this mandate, although it maintained the same votes, 1,600, “which are going to be essential for the future of the city,” says Hernández. However, he acknowledges that they were not the results they expected, although they achieved a difference of almost 400 with the nationalists, despite the fact that both formations will be represented with two councilors in plenary.
Nor were they what the PP would have wanted “after having dedicated four years to making a serious opposition and with another model of the city,” confesses the head of the list and current president of the local group, Ángel Montañés.
“The result is good,” he admits, and according to the PP it is based on what Marco González has proclaimed during the campaign. “Distributing the money instead of building the future. It will be necessary to analyze whether in Puerto de la Cruz you really do not have to think about the future but about the immediate present ”, he declares.
Despite the fact that 28M has favored the PSOE, the PP does not rule out being part of the municipal Executive. “There are still different combinations to form a government and we do not close doors to anything. In the same way, we can govern in a minority with the support of other groups or, well, form a government with the rest of the groups that are not the PSOE ”, he assures.
For the CC candidate and spokesperson, Sandra Rodríguez, working for Puerto de la Cruz is the only condition to agree. “We don’t have red lines, we only work with the portuense in the center of management”, she affirms.
CC was the political force with the fewest votes on Sunday and managed to keep the two councilors it has in the municipal plenary session, despite “that it is the best team and the best city project for Puerto de la Cruz.”
