The Socialist Party and the Popular Party have closed an agreement to govern Granadilla de Abona for the next four years. Representatives of both formations, who have maintained discreet negotiations since the same electoral night of 28M, have signed an alliance that will lead Jennifer Miranda (PSOE) to the Mayor’s Office, to the detriment of José Domingo Regalado (CC), in possession of the faction cane since 2017.
As this newspaper was able to learn, leaders of both parties held two meetings yesterday, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon, to outline the last fringes of the alliance. Last night, the intention of the negotiators was to announce the pact today.
The 11 socialist councilors and the two from the PP add up to 13 councilors, a figure that marks the absolute majority in the plenary hall, made up of 25 councilors after increasing by four due to the increase in population. To retain the Mayor’s Office, CC would need an agreement with the PP and that the two Vox mayors did not support the PSOE.
While sources from CC recognized this week that the negotiations “would take time”, representatives of the Popular Party called for the resignation of one of the elected councilors of CC after his departure from the popular ranks, a circumstance that the councilor in question has shown himself willing to accept. accept.
This agreement breaks the dynamic of pacts established until now by CC and PP in the Government of the Canary Islands, Cabildo de Tenerife and municipalities such as Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Arona and Guía de Isora. With this movement, the PSOE would recover one of the mayoralties with the greatest political weight in the South and on the Island (it is the second municipality with the largest population in the region) that it lost in 2017 as a result of a motion of censure presented by CC and PP. Waiting to clear up the unknowns of Güímar and Arico, Jennifer Miranda would be the fourth mayor in the southern region.
The socialist weakening on the map of the local administrations of the region after 28M (although it was the most voted party in seven of the nine municipalities) has forced the PSOE to put all the meat on the grill to regain power in the municipality of Granada .
The PSOE won the elections in Granadilla by receiving the support of 6,348 voters (11 councillors), followed by the CC, with 5,891 votes (10 councillors); PP, with 1,535 votes (two councilors), and Vox, with 1,190 ballots (two councilors).
The electoral board led by Jennifer Miranda achieved 916 more votes and three more representatives (11) than in 2019, while the list of José Domingo Regalado (CC), the current acting mayor, obtained 1,047 more votes and two new acts regarding the last elections (10).
The Granadilla de Abona City Council will be constituted, like the rest of the local corporations, on Saturday the 17th, at 11 in the morning.
