SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 21. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Socialist Party and the Canarian Coalition have signed today, Thursday, a stability and progress agreement for San Cristóbal de La Laguna with the purpose of consolidating and ensuring stability in municipal management. It will be the third time that socialists and nationalists govern together in the Tenerife municipality.
The agreement, which includes 15 fundamental axes, has been presented by the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE of La Laguna, Óscar Olave, and the general secretary of CC in La Laguna, Fran Hernández, together with members of both political formations, and gives rise to a government group supported by 18 councilors (10 from the PSOE and 8 from CC), while the Popular Party remains in opposition, with 3 councilors, and Unidas Se Podemos, Drago Verdes Canarias and Vox, with two councilors each.
The Secretary of Organization of the PSOE of La Laguna, Óscar Olave, made it clear that the Socialist Party is aware that “it is essential to establish a solid, stable and moderate political majority” in the City Council; For this reason, he thanked the representatives of the Canarian Coalition for “their capacity for understanding, listening and dialogue that has allowed us to reach this agreement,” which is based “on mutual trust between both political forces with the shared will to continue promoting changes.” or improvements through a programmatic agreement that promotes the progress of the municipality”.
Óscar Olave stressed that the primary objective “is to promote balanced economic, social and territorial development, seeking to achieve the highest levels of well-being for the citizens of La Laguna”, since the citizen support obtained by both political formations in the municipal elections of May 28 “consolidates a large majority that is also reflected in an outstanding representation in the Municipal Plenary and this gives solid support to the present and future.”
Asked how they are going to explain this agreement with the Canarian Coalition to PSOE voters, Óscar Olave pointed out that in order to reach May 2027 they needed stability, which requires “solid agreements”, for example, to be able to approve the year’s budgets. 2024, which will be put to the vote in a few days: “With 10 votes against 17, that would have been impossible,” he noted. “We are in times of politics, of dialogue, of reaching agreements and putting in common what unites us and forgetting what separates us. That is the main thing,” Olave stressed.
A “GREAT AGREEMENT”.
For his part, the general secretary of the Canarian Coalition in La Laguna, Fran Hernández, highlighted that today a “great agreement” has been signed in which both political formations “are clear that the interests of citizens must always be put before any type of partisan interest”, and that serves “to guarantee the stability and progress of the municipality”.
Fran Hernández stressed that La Laguna is at a “crucial” moment in which “the stability of the municipal government and addressing the problems of La Laguna families is essential,” and stated that it is an agreement in which “there will be a “only a government team, of mutual loyalty; a solid government, formed by two parties with the mayor at the helm, where the priority is the commitment to La Laguna.”
Hernández acknowledged that the ways of doing politics of nationalists and socialists are different, but he wanted to highlight that what is important now is that they are a “guarantee of progress” for the municipality and recalled that this is not the first time that they share a government with the Socialist Party. . In this sense, he emphasized that beyond “differences, acronyms, parties and personalities”, the reality is that both political forces were the ones that obtained the most votes in the last elections, with 60% of the votes. .
Fran Hernández also wanted to thank “the spirit of dialogue and consensus” shown by the members of the Socialist Party at the negotiating table, in order to guarantee “a government with a solid, decisive and capable majority for the coming years.” “Together we are going to work hand in hand with the Laguneros to lead crucial projects, actions and policies to improve the lives of our people,” she added.
He has also clarified that the pact with the PSOE was not part of the agreement to support the investiture of Pedro Sánchez: “La Laguna needed this long-awaited stability to be able to continue developing those policies and projects that will guarantee that the municipality continues to advance. But it has not been included in the Canarian agenda at all.”
Questioned about whether the departure of Jonathan Domínguez has been what has made the PSOE-CC pact possible in the City Council, Fran Hernández has been emphatic: “It is not in aboluto, and I want to make it clear, linked to try to promote this government alliance “. He added that Jonathan Domínguez remains connected to La Laguna and is a “strong man” in the local committees, and now, from the Government of the Canary Islands, he will continue “to wink at his municipality and work to continue improving it.”
NEW CC RESPONSIBILITIES.
According to the agreement, the incorporation of the new members of the Canary Coalition to the government group will be arranged as follows: Fran Hernández will be second deputy mayor and will head the Department of Municipal Services and Citizen Participation; Estefanía Díaz will be the fifth deputy mayor and will carry out the functions of Commerce and Tourism; Domingo Galván Delgado will be the eighth deputy mayor and will assume the functions of Promotion and Local Development, Environment, Health, Mobility and Transportation; Sergio Iroa Santana will lead Education and Youth, in addition to the OMIC; and Atteneri Falero Alonso will assume the Presidency of the Suggestions and Claims Commission.
As for the councilors of the Socialist Party who until now were leading these areas, councilor Ángel Chinea will become head of Works and Infrastructure and Accessibility, while Leticia Villegas will lead the Culture area. The rest of the councilors will remain in charge of their respective areas.
