There is already an agreement between the Canary Islands Coalition (CC) and the Popular Party (PP) in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife. In this way, the nationalist Jose Manuel Bermudez He will once again be the mayor of the chicharrera capital and the joint government between both formations will be repeated, although with some new faces.
ANDthe pact established between the two political parties in Santa Cruz, when barely a week has passed since the celebration of the municipal elections, is about to be signed. Only “some details” are missing and that the corresponding island and regional committees give the final approval.
The aforementioned agreement includes for the popular the same areas that they have in this mandate, among which are Urban Planning, Public Services, Environment, Animal Welfare and Sports, plus the Development Society, one of the key pieces of the Chicharrero Consistory, and Culture. Until now, these last two areas were in the hands of Coalición Canaria.
The nationalists remain with the departments of Finance, Infrastructure and Works, Heritage, Citizen Participation, Technology, Presidency, Human Resources, Security, Education and Youth, Housing and Festivals.
The new government group in the Santa Cruz City Council will be made up of the nine councilors that the CC obtained in the last elections, one less than in those of 2019, and by the five that the PP obtained, two more than in the previous elections. These add up to the fourteen councilors necessary to govern in the chicharrero municipality, repeating the pact between CC and PP.
The opposition in the capital’s Consistory will be made up of the ten councilors of the PSOE (one more than in this term that is ending) and for the three new ones from VOX, who have managed to sneak into Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
the socialist Patricia Hernández, who won the elections by some 1,100 votes, getting ten councilors, had a very difficult time becoming mayoress. The disappearance of the other left-wing party, United We Can (now, United Yes We Can), and the fact that Ciudadanos (Cs) does not continue either, made it very difficult to reach an agreement, if not impossible. And it is that after the 2019 elections, it was precisely the two councilors of Cs, Matilde Zambudio and Juan Ramón Lazcano, also with the support of United We Can, who gave the Mayor’s Office to Patricia Hernández.
But it lasted a year, after the nationalist José Manuel Bermúdez snatched it away, with the motion of censure supported by the PP and by the mayor of Cs Evelyn Alonso. Now the latter is part of the Bermúdez team, as an independent, and the same happens with Zambudio, but with the Socialist Party.
In this way, and While waiting for the full constitution of the City Council to be held, next Saturday June 17, the government group in the Chicharrero Town Hall would be made up of the mayor José Manuel Bermúdez (CC) and the nationalist councilors Gladis de León, Juan Alfonso Cabello, Rosario González, José Alberto Díaz-Estébanez, Evelyn Alonso, Javier Rivero, María Purificación Dávila and Javier Caraballero; and by the councilors of the PP Carlos Tarife, Zaida González, Alicia Cebrián, Santiago Díaz and Carmen Pérez.
In the opposition would be, for the Socialist Party, Patricia Hernández, Elena Mateo, Florentino Guzmán Plasencia, Matilde Zambudio, Andrés Martín, Alana Chinea, José Sabaté, Mónica Brito, Antonio Rodríguez and Ana Delia Darias. Also, and for the first time in the Santa Cruz City Hall, there will be three VOX councilors. These are Alejandro Gómez, Luis Sosa-Tolosa del Valle and Juan Manuel Hermoso.
