As happened four years ago, it is almost certain that the pact that will govern the Güímar City Council will not be revealed until Saturday, at eleven o’clock in the morning. Then, the four nationalist councilors led by Gustavo Pérez failed to comply with their party’s orders to vote for themselves and thereby allow the minority government of their former partner, the popular Luisi Castro. However, CC voted in favor of the socialist Airam Puerta and he became mayor, although only for the first two years, because the night before he signed an agreement with Pérez to share the Mayor’s office during the term. Thus, with 10 votes in favor and seven against (PP and Ciudadanos), PSOE and CC won the Mayor’s Office, adding, without needing it, the favorable vote of Sí se puede (Ruymán Expósito).
Socialists and nationalists have starred in some disagreements throughout this mandate, but, given the results of 28M, they have thought that virtue lies in necessity and now they are trying to reissue the same pact – there is no talk of time sharing in the Mayor’s Office now – At all costs, trying to achieve the support of the mayor of United Sí Podemos (Nayra Caraballero) to achieve an absolute majority with 11 councilors, exceeding the 10 that PP (9) and Nueva Canarias (1) would add.
If she did not achieve it, Luisi Castro, the most voted with more than 1,600 votes difference with the second force (CC), would be elected mayor again (she was from 2013 to 2019) for being the list with the most votes. And New Canaries? Carlos Llarena has only shown his support for the PP, and even for the CC, but he refuses to support the PSOE, the party in which Llarena was a member until he was expelled from trusted personnel by the then mayor, Airam Puerta.
There has also been talk of what would be logical in the current political situation in the Canary Islands, the PP-CC pact, but here the irreconcilable personal relationships and the legal proceedings open between them collide. The supra-municipal bodies of both formations continue to try, but the Güimareros nationalists continue without answering the PP, after a first and only contact.
Therefore, everything depends on what USP does, pending a new assembly to determine if they support Airam Puerta as mayor, and thus the PSOE-CC pact, or vote for themselves and let the Popular Party govern.
Nayra Caraballero has transferred a government program in which she requests participatory budgets, public companies and two audits, one at the beginning of the mandate and another at the end. If it were for that, the renewal of the CC-PSOE government would be a fact; The paper, you know, supports everything. In Güímar everything is possible. Tomorrow the unknown will be cleared up.
