The new municipal government of Arona will have an annual cost of €725,000, according to the structure approved in plenary session last Friday and which was made known throughout yesterday. The figure is similar to that of the socialist team and it includes the salary that the new mayoress will receive, Fatima Lemes (PP), which has opted for cost containment and maintains the salary of its predecessor (70,000 gross euros per year). The new local Executive will have eight deputy mayorswith salaries between 55,000 and 60,000 euros gross per year
Without a doubt, and in view of the distribution of areas, Más por Arona is the party that will have the most weight in the new corporation, at the expense of Partido Popular and CC, with three deputy mayors and four councilors. And not in just any areas.
This formation of socialist exediles takes charge of the third tenure of mayoralty, which includes Tourism (responsible for all sponsorships of athletes, which reduces the capacity of the Sports area), Economic Promotion, Primary Sector and Employment, which is endowed with 60,000 euros a year and for which Dácil León is responsible. The fifth holding, Urbanism and Modernization of the Territory, will be for Luis García (55,000 euros per year). And the eighth, for Juan Sebastián Roque, will be the one that decides on hiring, public works and housing, with another 55,000 euros a year.
For her part, Councilor Pura Martín, with 45,000 euros a year, will be in charge of policies for the elderly. The Popular Party and the Canary Islands Coalition will reserve, for their part, Social Services, Citizen Participation, Transparency and Modernization (Clara María Pérez, 60,000 euros per year), Education, Culture, Sports and Youth (Luis Sierra, 55,000 gross euros per year), Human Resources, Security, Heritage and Transportation (Devi Pereyra Kroll, 55,000 gross euros per year), Economy and Finance (Guacimara Tavío Fumero, 55,000 gross euros per year) or Parties (Alexis Gómez Álvarez, with 45,000 gross euros per year).
In this way, both nationalists and conservatives narrow their capacity and competencies to grant power to their partners, while opting for the crossover of responsibilities between the different political parties. For example, the councilor for Security, Transparency and Fiestas will have a councilor from the Popular Party, Devy Pereyra, as deputy mayor.
In this structure, however, what stands out is precisely the decision of the new mayoress to keep her salary at the same level as her predecessor, well below the legal maximum of 87,120.59 euros per year.
A different matter is the understanding that this distribution of areas has had in the ranks of the two parties affected in the negotiation, which has already claimed the first of the resignations: the resignation of the act of the mayor of the PP María José Asencio.
In an apparently formal error, Asencio Pérez took office as “Sports Councilor of the Arona City Council”, long before last Friday the mayoress obtained the approval of the plenary session for her government structure. When it became known that this area would be for her party partner and that her second preference, Fiestas, would not correspond to her either, she abruptly submitted her resignation.
