The assembly of the Canary Islands Coalition (CC) of Santa Cruz de Tenerife yesterday proclaimed José Manuel Bermúdez, current mayor of the city, as its candidate for mayor for the municipal elections in May 2023.
The local CC general secretary in the capital, Alfonso Cabello, welcomed the affiliates and sympathizers of the nationalist formation and announced that, “in this assembly that we celebrate, we will proceed to the proclamation of the only candidate who appears to head the list to the Mayor’s Office for the 2023 elections”, and argued that, “in this case, compañero José Manuel Bermúdez brings together the best demonstrated management capacity, enthusiasm and desire to make us grow with the work of all of us who support him” .
José Manuel Bermúdez accepted the commitment and recalled that “four years ago all of you did a tremendous job that served to improve all the results of Coalición Canaria in the municipality.”
Likewise, he emphasized that “this impeccable work, however, did not prevent the arithmetic and the hatred of some of this political project from leaving us out for a year, and luckily it was only a year, from the responsibility of maintaining the leadership of this capital in the economic, social and cultural spheres”.
“Tonight – he emphasized – they once again place their trust in me, and believe me that I come with more enthusiasm and desire than in 2019, and with the clear objective of, for the good of the city, preventing at all costs that the radical left, those who ignore the Canary Islands every day, return to govern this capital”. In addition, he stated that “Santa Cruz is experiencing a historic moment of transformation, which is why we are determined to recover the pride of being the first capital of the Canary Islands, rehabilitating our heritage and promoting sustainability like never before, recovering the coast.”
“Reconstruction”
Bermúdez highlighted that “we do all of this collectively, with associations, with citizens, with closeness, with dialogue and integrating everyone in a collective reconstruction project that is unstoppable”, and advanced that “we must be able to transfer a message of optimism, to the families, whom we must support when they need it most, to the entrepreneurs and self-employed in the municipality, who are the ones who generate wealth and employment”.
To end the assembly, Alfonso Cabello wanted to make it clear that, “in a moment of uncertainty like the current one, we must bet on experience, management, reliability and the ability to make courageous decisions, but with the sensitivity of being able to to leave no one behind.”
The local general secretary of CC in the capital concluded by stating that “for this project, no party is better than the Canary Islands Coalition, and no candidate is better than José Manuel Bermúdez, our candidate, in the certainty that he will fight until the last moment to consolidate this city as the capital of nationalism in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands”.
