The Electoral Board’s recount of the votes in La Laguna ended, late yesterday, maintaining the two councilors obtained by Canary Green Dragon Tree on the electoral night of last Sunday, as well as the three ediles of the Popular Party, which had fallen just a few votes away from achieving the fourth act, which would have lost Canary Green Dragon Treeand had contested the count.
The candidate of the PP in La Laguna, Ana Zurita, explained last night that, although it seems that “some twenty-odd votes for Drago were annulled”, that did not mean a change in the minutes of councilors and announced that from her party they will present an appeal today with information additional, and the Electoral Board of the area “will have 24 hours to answer us,” he explained. For what she considered that the final result will be the one that comes out of this new resource.
With yesterday’s count, the progress pact continues to be feasible in La Laguna, with the ten councilors of the PSOE, the two from Unidas se puede and the other two maintained by Drago Verdes Canarias. In fact, its leader and candidate in the city of La Laguna, Alberto Rodríguez, stated last Thursday that before delving into any negotiations they were “immersed, putting a large part of our efforts into fighting the recount” and “the intentions by the PP to put an end to the second act of councilor of Drago, which would mean facilitating the entry of the right and the ultra-right in the municipality”.
“We are going to put all our forces and resources to prevent this from happening, it is something typical, that when the right loses at the polls, it tries to win them in the offices,” he said. And once the count confirmed its two councilors, “the talks” would begin, showing their willingness to this pact of progress, conditional on the lines of their program.
The acting mayor and PSOE candidate, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, also made reference last Thursday to this count and to wait for “formal knowledge that things are going to remain as they have been made public in the ballots” to start “the contacts next week with all the formations, and obviously with those that are to the left of the Socialist Party, we have to explore the possibilities of a possible agreement”.
