“I do not consider the possibility that Jose Julian Mena not be the candidate PSOE. He is a socialist and has shown it outside and inside the Government of Arona, since he was in his mother’s womb. It is something that he brings from the cradle. I don’t understand what the party is waiting for to name him a candidate, ”says Jorge Alayón, deputy secretary general of the Socialist Youth of Arona, vice president of the regional and member of the national committee of that youth organization of the PSOE.
In addition, he adds that “the candidate has to be Mena. It is a clamor in the street, people love him. There are parties that would like to have him in their ranks. It is the ideal option so that the socialist project is maintained for four years, if not twenty more years”.
He insists that “Mena has the support of the majority of Arona’s socialists and the majority of the citizenry”, even recalling that “in the party’s statutes it is stated that the mayors of cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants will be the candidates if so they want it.”
On what would happen to the critical sector that is against Mena -six councilors and the one expelled from the party, Luis García-, he dropped that “there are rumors that they could run for a new party, that they are working on it.
But I don’t care what they’re going to do.” For peace to come to the PSOE in Arona, he indicated that “the only thing we ask from the Socialist Youth is that an assembly be held and that we be the ones who freely vote for who should lead the party in Arona. That all the candidacies that they want be presented and that it be that assembly that elects the general secretary of Arona to lead the party for four years, because the municipal elections must be prepared from now on.
Regarding the lack of representation of Arona in the new insular executive, which will be chaired by Pedro Martín with 97% support, he points out that, “by having a manager in the municipality, we did not have the right to delegates. Mena and I, for example, went to the congress as militants. I think that Pedro Martín has had mistakes and successes, but unity was seen in the congress”.
Regarding his departure from the Socialist Youth after a crisis within the organization a year ago, which also forced the creation of a manager, he points out that “I was expelled from the Socialist Youth and I simply rejoined. Now I am stronger than before. The Youth are mostly united, although there is a minority sector that supports the critical part of Mena, but they are not seen and they do not care about eight than eighty”.
