Luis Javier Gonzalez Delgado, lawyer and administrator of Estates, yesterday became the youngest mayor of Tenerife -he surpasses the lagoon Luis Yeray Gutiérrez by less than a year-, just the day he turned 35. An anniversary that “I will remember all my life,” said the young politician in a plenary session that barely lasted 35 minutes, but that was full of emotion, that of assuming the honor of presiding over your hometown and that of celebrating a birthday surrounded by a good number of socialists from Tenerife.
After the formal resignation of the three socialist mayors who presided over him on the 2019 electoral list (Silvia Tejera, Juan Elías Cabrera and Raquel Díaz), who led Damian Perez Viera, the mayor who resigned from office last week after ten years and eight months with the baton, passed into the hands of Luis Javier González Delgado with the support of the socialist majority. Getting it ahead of the candidacy of Pedro Hernández Tejera, leader of the opposition, made up of the four mayors of the Canarian Coalition, who ended up wishing “the best for the new mayor, because it will be the best for Fasnia”, pointed out the former alderman for 23 years.
The local PSOE spokesman, Juan Jesús González Díaz, praised the work of Damián Pérez, encouraged his fellow socialists to support González “all together” and mentioned the opposition “for their collaboration.” “Your luck will be ours. Working together is success”, he concluded in his message to the fellow councillor.
Luis Javier González Delgado, in his first speech as mayor, made a profile of his colleagues in government, to report that “working with you every day I have fallen even more in love with every corner of this town.” He thanked Pedro Martín, president of the Cabildo, for unclogging projects such as the rehabilitation of Los Roques or the water network and had words of thanks to Damián Pérez, his parents, his sister and her husband Omar (regional deputy for the PSOE) : “They know that I will take time away from them, but I know that they are proud of the step I have taken”.
Finally, he addressed the neighbors, “who will decide if in 14 years we will renew the trust they have placed in the PSOE since 2011.” In turn, he advanced that he will continue to lead the Youth Council so that “the only future for the young people of Fasnia is to leave the town.”
