The motion of no confidence in Acting President of the Council of Tenerifethe socialist Peter Martinhas an inexorable road map. A clock whose particular tick tock will be set in motion since the constituent plenary session of the new insular Corporation is held. That session will proclaim Martín again, heading the most voted list in the elections on May 28, but only for a few days.
The constituent will be on Friday 23 or Tuesday 27 because the law requires those dates, one month after the elections as a limit and to convene two days in advance. CC and PP, who have signed a government pact and have a majority (18 directors for the 11 of the PSOE), will later present the document of censorship in the General Registry and will begin to count the ten working days established by the Regulation. With a fork that goes from July 6 to 12, another plenary session will convert the nationalist Rosa Davila in the first president of the Cabildo de Tenerife in its 110 years of history.
Dávila culminated the presentation of the agreement with the Popular Party last Monday with this sentence: «We will put the motion of no confidence into motion immediately after the new island corporation is constituted. In the following days we are in a position to form the government signed now.”
That pact to govern the Cabildo de Tenerife between CC and PP is based on 22 points. The second textually says the following: «Once the Island Corporation is constituted, promote -immediately- by the 18 councilors of both parties a motion of censure on the head of the presidency, head of the PSOE list (Pedro Martín) , given that it cannot guarantee the stability necessary to face the problems and challenges that the Island of Tenerife has in the new term that is beginning (2023-2027)”. It ends like this: «Given the constructive nature of the motion of censure, both parties agree to the inclusion as a candidate for the Presidency of Rosa Dávila, head of the list of Canarian Coalition».
The Organic Law 8/1999 of the General Electoral Regime in its article 197 marks the regulations. The schedule begins with the presentation of the motion signed by all the directors. The plenary session will be held at 12:00 noon on the tenth business day, counted from the day after the presentation in the General Registry. That is, if it is presented on a Monday, the term begins to count from Tuesday. The plenary session is held, a vote is taken and the president is proclaimed, in this case the president. Those ten business days represent an actual period of about two weeks.
Legal sources confirm that there is no legal impediment to present the motion of censure on the same day of the plenary session of the inauguration. Once that session is over, the procedure established by law is to fill it out in the Secretariat and later present it in the General Registry.
The two parties that form the pact have not yet decided how they will carry out the registration of the motion. They shuffle the same day or the next. That will depend on the full takeover and whether the Registry is open. A fact to keep in mind: the General Electoral Regime Regulations only allow a single motion of censure in the mandate.
Pedro Martín, in his first assessment of the results, the day after the elections at the Hotel Escuela, paradoxically the same place where last Monday, a week later, the pact that will get him out of the insular presidency was staged, described the motion of no confidence as a “legal democratic tool” that the PSOE already used at the beginning of this mandate to unseat the nationalist Carlos Alonso.
July 24, 2019: first motion of no confidence in the Cabildo
«The polls have decided that it is not possible to reissue the pact that governed the Cabildo de Tenerife. I sent a congratulatory message to the winner of the elections, Pedro Martín, but that alliance cannot be repeated. The phrase is from Rosa Dávila, CC candidate for the island institution, and refers to the agreement that in 2019 brought Martín to the presidency after a PSOE pact (11 councilors) with citizens (2) and the external support of Sí Podemos Canary Islands (3). The next step was the first motion of no confidence in the history of the Tenerife Corporation, which took place on July 24, 2019, four years ago soon, to evict Carlos Alonso (CC), head of the most voted list. The pact argued the need for change after three decades of Canarian Coalition governments. It was a rough session, with a large audience in the Plenary Hall of the Insular Palace. The nationalists alleged the incompatibility of Sí Podemos counselor David Carballo when the motion was presented on July 10, but the secretary endorsed the process. The motion went ahead with 16 votes in favor (PSOE, Cs and Sí Podemos) and 14 against (10 from CC and four from PP). Alonso is no longer there, although his work in the shadows has been key to the change in trend. Martín continues, but changes the register. He from winner to loser four years later. | JDM
Results of the 28M elections in the Canary Islands
Remember that the May 28 You can consult in El Día the results of the regional elections, council elections and municipal elections in Canary Islands and Tenerife 2023:
