On Saturday, the 88 Canarian city councils that came out of the polls on May 28 are constituted and 10 corporations still remain unknown as to who will fall to their mayoralties, since there are no agreements closed 48 hours after the plenary sessions are held. The most important municipality without an agreement yet is La Laguna, where the negotiations between the winner of the electionsthe PSOE, and its theoretical allies, Podemos and Drago Verdes, They have gone uphill in recent days. Tenerife It is the island where there are more town halls open to what happens in the next few hours, with six in total, while in Lanzarote, The Palm, Gran Canaria and The iron They have a municipality on each of these islands pending agreements. Agaete, Would doLos Llanos de Aridane, Valverde, La Laguna, Tegueste, Güímar, Garachico, Icod and Puerto de la Cruz are the municipalities affected by this situation.
More than half of the municipalities of the Islands, up to 46, have required agreements to guarantee the governance of the corporations, which gives an idea of the political fragmentation that prevails in municipal politics. A total of 17 agreements have left the most voted party out of the Mayor’s Office, waiting for the final pacts to be cleared on Saturday. Between these pacts against nature stand out Reef (CC-PP against the PSOE), Teguise (CC-PP supported by Vox against the PSOE), The village (PP-NC that leaves out the socialists), firgas (a quadripartite against NC), saint brigid (three games against the PP), Tazacorte (all against the NC), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (the CC-PP pact is repeated to leave out the PSOE), Arona (tripartite against the PSOE) or Tacoronte (tripartite against the NC).
There are consistories where uncertainty can be maintained until the very constitution of the municipal plenary session. This is the case of Haría, in Lanzarote, in which PSOE and Compromiso por Haría tied four councilors and in which four years ago the political scenario was similar: in plenary each group voted for itself and later an agreement was made with shared Mayorship for two years, although a motion of censure was subsequently presented. After clearing up the last uncertainties that weighed on terror and Saint Matthewin Gran Canaria, Agaete is the town council where the talks between BNR-NC and PSOE to agree and evict the PP from the Mayor’s Office, although everything indicates that there will finally be a change of municipal government.
In Gran Canaria, the town of Agaete is pending an agreement to evict the PP
Municipalities of Tenerife
As has happened in previous elections, there are municipalities in Tenerife in which municipal politics is conditioned by the likes and phobias that exist between leaders of different parties when it comes to negotiating pacts and the local formations that attend the elections that can tip the balance. in the majorities of government. In Tegueste, the PSOE won the CC by one vote but is pending the rest of the formations, with a single councilor, to retain the Mayor’s Office, while Güímar the PP will retain the baton as long as the agreement with the nationalists is consolidated, although mistrust is mutual. The same thing but the other way around happens in Garachico, although in this case it is Canarian Coalition who has not been guaranteed the Mayor’s Office due to the existing equality, while in Icod that the nationalists are supported by the PP depends on the fact that the head of the CC list is put aside.
One of the municipalities with swords held high at this point is the economic enclave of La Palma, Los Llanos de Aridane, the most affected by the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano. There the voters took their toll on the management of the PP in this term that is ending and CC won the popular votes and it is the PSOE that decides who grants stability in the City Council.
In Haría, in Lanzarote, and Los Llanos, in La Palma, uncertainty will come to the end
The pacts in cascade between CC and PP as a result of the autonomous pact are the ones that predominate in the municipal map that has been configured after 28-M. However, the idiosyncrasy of some Canarian municipalities has led to agreements that go beyond the script. In FuerteventuraFor example, four of the six town councils on the island are the result of an agreement between the CC and the PSOE due to the failure of the negotiations between the nationalists and the popular ones on the island, which has left the PP without the Mayor’s Office of Tuineje, the only municipality where he won on the Majorera island. In Gran Canaria there are pacts between PSOE and PP –Arucas, Teror or Firgas- or between PP and NC -La Aldea. Granadilla de Abona and La Guancha, in Tenerife, have also closed a pact between socialists and popular.
In the four most inhabited municipalities, the only one where the regional model is copied is Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where CC and PP agreed almost immediately when the PSOE was left without allies to return to the Mayor’s Office. the palms of Gran Canaria repeats the tripartite progress of the last two terms, although now with a clear predominance of the socialists of Caroline Darias.
telde gave the surprise with the victory of Ciuca and the defeat of NC, which became the third force and now the city of the faycanes will be governed by a quadripartite where CC, PP and Más also enter by Telde. La Laguna will foreseeably have a left-wing pact with Luis Yeray Gutiérrez pending the decisions adopted by United Sí Se Puede and Drago Verdes.
