The Council Law establishes that the president of the council will automatically be the one with the most votes. If they do not have the necessary support to remain in the presidency, the parties that want to aspire to preside over the institution must present a motion of censure.
Until June 27, this was the script that had to be followed in the Cabildo de Tenerife. The socialist Pedro Martín was to be sworn in as president, and only one day later, as they had already announced, after reaching an agreement, CC and PP would present the corresponding motion of censure, which would be debated 15 days later, on July 12. .
However, that June 27, Pedro Martín, after assuming the position of president, announced his resignation from it, alleging that “Tenerife cannot be stopped” in reference to the presentation of the motion of censure and the wait that would have to take place. for the new insular government to be formed.
In that same announcement, he advanced that he had already called two plenary sessions, to be held today starting at ten in the morning, one to give an account of his resignation from the Plenary, and another to proceed with the election of the new president.
As explained by Martín himself, this process will resemble that of the town halls, where the members of the Plenary vote for a name to be the mayor. This process is completely unprecedented in the Cabildo, since a president has never been elected by this formula, not included in the aforementioned Law of Cabildos, and which raises doubts about its legality or about whether it can be challenged.
Thus, the 27 councilors will vote for the heads of the list of each of the formations that make up the Plenary. In this case they are those of Rosa Dávila (CC), Lope Afonso (PP) and Ana Salazar (Vox).
As it was, the announcement of the socialist president left in dry dock the motion of censure of CC and PP, which is waiting for the nationalist Rosa Dávila to be proclaimed today as the first president in the 110-year history of the Cabildo.
Martín’s resignation also leaves the door open for a motion of no confidence to be filed throughout the mandate, since only one per mandate is admitted.
“We are respectful, we know that there is an agreement between CC and PP and it is my intention to favor an orderly transition of powers, so we make ourselves available to collaborate in that process,” Martín explained in that plenary session that has opened the door to a situation completely unprecedented in the island Corporation.
