Pedro Martín was proclaimed President of the Council of Tenerife topping the most voted listthat of the PSOE (11 councillors), but in an unexpected twist, he will not wait for the announced motion of no confidence by the Canary Islands Coalition and the Popular Party, but rather resigns from office to promote an “orderly transition” and “not have to wait for the 15 days provided by law in the event that the mechanism had been put into operation Generalized surprise and coup d’état during a solemn protocol ceremony that took place in the Noble Hall of the Insular Palace to open the 2023-2027 term Martín, who He will remain in office until that moment, he explained after taking office that he is calling a plenary session next Monday to give an account of his resignation and then, approximately a quarter of an hour later, another to vote on the new island government with the system of town halls, where the announced agreement between popular and nationalists would become effective.
The socialist launched an order to the CC and PP motion of no confidence that will no longer be produced as there is no one against whom to present it. The transition was going to be about fifteen days until the plenary session that would unseat Pedro Martín from the institution he has directed for the last four years was held on July 12. The document was already drafted and was going to be presented this Wednesday, in principle. Now the transition will be different, although the final result remains the same: Rosa Davila will be the first female president of the Cabildo de Tenerife.
counselors parade
Behind the solemn parade of the 31 councilors -20 new ones-, dressed in rigorous gala, from the Plenary Hall the older ones, Juan Manuel Acosta Méndez, from Canarian Coalition, and the youngest, Naím Valerio Yánez Alonso, from Vox, formed the Age Table prior to the opening of the session by the Secretary General. One by one, the new components of the Cabildo were called, according to the order established by the D’Hont Law, in the counting of votes and Juan Acosta, as president of the Table, imposed the corresponding commemorative medals on them. To the second, because a protocol error forced them to call them again after not delivering them to the first. From the two directors of Vox to those of the PSOE through those of PP and CC. The 31 swore or promised with the formula “by my conscience and honor to faithfully fulfill the obligations of the position of counselor of the Most Excellent Island Council of Tenerife, with loyalty to the King and to keep and have the Constitution kept as a fundamental rule of the State”. The only one who deviated from the general norm was the socialist Nauzet Gugliotta who swore, in addition to the same thing as the others, for the laws that protect women and diversity on our island.
Next, the Secretary General read Article 56.2 of Royal Decree 2,568/1986, which approves the Regulations for the Organization, Operation and Legal Regime of local entities. Juan Acosta, president of the Board of Age, declared “formally constituted the Island Council of Tenerife for the four-year period 2023-2027. Likewise, he proclaimed as its president, by virtue of article 201.5 of the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime, the first candidate from the most voted list in the insular constituency of Tenerife: Pedro Martín Domínguez.To this effect, Acosa handed Martín the symbolic command baton and the two members of the Age Table returned to the seats they occupied together with their fellow Corporation.
The president then gave the turn to speak to the heads of the electoral lists presented to the elections on May 28 that obtained representation in order from lowest to highest. For five minutes each, Ana Mercedes Salazar (Vox), Lope Afonso (PP) and Rosa Dávila (CC) broke down their speeches. The first glossed a presentation to be the first time the force policy far-right enters the Cabildo with emphasis on institutional loyalty. The popular and the nationalist raised the unity in the work for Tenerife.
Pedro Martín closed the interventions with an obvious farewell statement and a balance of his management for four years. Both because of the closure of this stage and because he will go to the Senate and will not continue in the Island Council. He wished everyone luck “for the good of Tenerife”. He ended by thanking “those who have given us their trust, but we are respectful and we know that there is an agreement between CC and PP. Tenerife cannot stop and I say that today I am resigning from my post to make an orderly transition. Long live Tenerife”.
with the hymns of Canary Islands and Spain closed the solemn constituent session. The next appointment in fifteen days with the debate on the motion of no confidence.
