The Socialist Party will govern half of the twelve municipalities in the south of Tenerife, despite losing two bastions such as Arona -foreseeable after the division in two of the PSOE municipal group- and, surprisingly, Guía de Isora, where it governed the last 28 years of the hand of Pedro Martín, who will not be able to lead the Cabildo de Tenerife and aspires to become a senator.
Those two famous defeats were alleviated by the PSOE, if they can really be alleviated, with the recovery, eight years later, of another of the thriving municipalities in the region and the fourth most populous (almost 60,000 inhabitants), Granadilla de Abona. The young lawyer Jennifer Miranda, 34, a councilor since 2016, already won in 2019, but a CC-PP pact left the nationalist Regalado in the Mayor’s Office. Now, the popular, with two new councilors at the head of the list, after the flight of Marcos and Yanira González to CC, have given the majority to the Socialists, a pact that the leaders of the two tried to stop, without success. parties that will govern the Canary Islands and the Cabildo in the next four years.
Those same parties that failed to get Gustavo Pérez (CC) to sign a pact with Luisi Castro (PP) in Güímar, after being the popular former mayor the most voted with nine councillors, for five nationalists, the same as the PSOE, with whom she governed , sharing the Mayor’s Office, the last four years. Nationalists and socialists need one more councilor to renew the pact and given the refusal of Nueva Canarias, which supported Castro as mayoress, the agreement came surprisingly with United Yes We Can, despite the red lines that both CC de not agree with Podemos like this party with the nationalists. The mayor Nayra Caraballero not only supported Gustavo Pérez as mayor, but she will enter his government, yes, with a program, according to her, of mandatory compliance, and which has among its objectives the review of some contracts with management companies like water or garbage.
A full blown
This was not the only tripartite that became official on Saturday in the south of Tenerife, when the one signed days before by the three women who lead the PP, CC and Más Arona in the third municipality of Tenerife in population was confirmed. The young economist and triathlete Fátima Lemes, having more votes than Clari Pérez (CC), with the same councilors (five) and one more than Dácil León (+Arona), is the first female mayor of the municipality, adding a majority of 14 councilors in a consistory of 25, where the former socialist mayor José Julián Mena, with eight councilors, will be the leader of the opposition, who will exercise “without hindering the management, not like others did to me”, said the great defeated in the 28M elections.
The PSOE also recovered the baton of command in Arico, given the lack of agreement between the other three parties with representation. Olivia Delgado will govern in a minority (six councilors out of 13) at least until after 23J, when it is possible that the two councilors of the PP who voted blank on Saturday, or with the external support of Arico We Are All , who kept his word not to govern until the end with “those who have misgoverned Arico in recent years,” said José Luis Hervella.
In the rest, Fraga begins his tenth term in Adeje -he will celebrate 40 years in the Mayor’s Office-, Emilio Navarro (PP), Arturo González (CC), Agustina Beltrán (PSOE), Juan Ramón Martín (CC) and Mari Brito (PSOE) strengthen their position in Santiago del Teide, San Miguel de Abona, Vilaflor, Arafo and Candelaria. In Fasnia, the young socialist Luis Javier González, 36, continues as mayor, this time after winning his first elections and despite unfounded complaints from the opposition.
