Candelaria Díaz, who until today has been the number two of the Canarian Coalition in La Laguna (Tenerife), has presented this Monday, September 12, her resignation as councilor of the Municipal Group of CC-PNC, a resignation that comes just 24 hours after having participated in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in an act of New Canarythe party chaired by Román Rodríguez.
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Both Rodríguez and Díaz deny that the councilor’s incorporation into the ranks of NC has taken place, but both she and the leader of the PSOE in the same city, Mónica Martín, attended this Saturday the constitution of the local committee of Nueva Canarias in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, an act that has marked the beginning of the electoral actions of the party and the recruitment of people to expand its structure on the island, dominated until now by the Canary Coalition in the nationalist sphere.
This newspaper echoed the presence of both politicians in the act of NC and the reactions caused by the news led Díaz to announce his resignation. “Today the glass has been filled,” he explains, adding that he is “deeply saddened” that said information “has generated so much debate” about his person within CC bodies. Díaz details that in different chats of the party there have been “totally unfair and malicious information spilled with clear evil” and points out that the treatment to which she has been subjected is “intolerable”, “without anyone putting order”.
With the decision made, Díaz presented this Monday morning at the City Council Secretary’s Office a letter with his resignation from the act (with which he leaves his position as councilor) and, later, he sent a letter to the members of his party in which, in addition to notifying them of his resignation, makes harsh accusations against some of his fellow ranks, without giving names.
In the first letter, Díaz affirms that it has been a pride for her to have carried out the functions of councilor “in a Corporation in which the work and good work of all the municipal personnel stand out, to whom I would like to convey my high consideration and gratitude”.
Harsh criticism of his party, Canarian Coalition
In the second letter, the former councilor announces her departure from CC giving a bang to this party: “Throughout my militancy I have defended our initials with loyalty and hard work, even on occasions when I have not agreed with any of the decisions that have been adopted. Lately in politics, what loyalty means is misunderstood and what some want is submission and obedience at the service of their personal interests”, he has expressed in the note.
“I have been enduring for three years that some colleagues in our party, in order to strengthen their personal aspirations, have prevented me from properly carrying out my work as a councillor, blatantly isolating me little by little in decision-making,” she adds. According to her, those colleagues have generated “totally false” rumors about her and made her feel “mistreated for a long time.” She states that she has come to the conclusion that she should not continue in “a project in which some have no limit when it comes to carrying out defamation, malicious spreading of lies and other similar actions with the sole intention of live in the sun and continue living from politics”.
Furthermore, Díaz affirms that if the party (CC) and politics cease to be an “instrument to serve others and improve the society in which we live, becoming, regardless of morals and values, a mere means to make a living from it, I think that is not the place where I should be”.
Until today, the councilor of CC affirms that “no person should put up with a situation like this and continue working in a party in which a minority of pretentious and pretentious men mistreat members and colleagues.”
In La Laguna, which has been a historical bastion of CC, from which figures such as the national deputy Ana Oramas or the general secretary of the party Fernando Clavijo (who was also mayor of the city of the advanced) have come, the debacle of the nationalists began by losing the mayor’s office in 2019 against the PSOE after almost 30 years in power and despite winning in votes. José Alberto Díaz, who had been mayor since Clavijo’s departure, has not completed a legislature in opposition, since he resigned from his act in July 2021. In this case, the alleged reasons were “professional.”
The local committee of the Canarian Coalition in La Laguna, the largest in the Canary Islands, loses its number two a few months before the next municipal elections.
