Carmen Luisa Castro, mayor from 2013 to 2019, aspires to pick up the baton again on June 17 at the Güímar City Hall, contrary to what happened four years ago. She won the elections then, as now, but a pact – theoretically not consented to by the island executives – between the PSOE and CC left her without the Mayor’s Office.
Now, four years later, Luisi Castro has won the elections again and with greater breadth, with nine councilors for five each of the parties today in the local government, a sum that does not give them an absolute majority, which has gone to 11, after increasing the number of councilors from 17 to 21. To repeat this agreement, the support of Nueva Canarias or United Sí Podemos would suffice, but the former is not in favor of supporting the socialist Airam Puerta, because his elected councilor ( Carlos Llarena) was expelled by the latter when he was trusted personnel, while the latter would never support the nationalists. Putting things like this, the PP remains awaiting events and since it could not obtain the support of United Sí Podemos -the one from Nueva Canarias, yes-, everything happens to reissue the most natural pact for the popular ones in Tenerife, the agreement with CC, as it already existed during Castro’s time as mayor, after the motion of no confidence against the socialist Rafael Yanes in 2013.
For this, the insular secretary of the PP, Emilio Navarro, announced that he will begin negotiations with the nationalists to respect the most voted list before any pact is signed in the Cabildo de Tenerife and the Government of the Canary Islands. “It is the natural pact and I hope that this time, contrary to what happened four years ago, it will be fulfilled, because the insular and regional pact will influence it,” said Luisi Castro yesterday, confident that this time she will be mayor again.
Arico
If everything could theoretically happen in Güímar, there are more doubts in Arico, as always since Eladio Morales stopped being mayor. Olivia Delgado won the elections for the fourth time, but she lacked a councilor for an absolute majority, although now the sum CC-PP (5) is not enough to unseat her, requiring the support of the two councilors that Arico Somos Todos took out, a formation that declares itself “neighborhood”, but headed by former socialist councilors such as José Luis Hervella, who does not welcome agreeing with those who have been governing the municipality up to now, nor with Delgado, who has already had two motions of censure (2012 and 2019). The last thing that was said, without anyone confirming it, is that AST would support the PSOE to obtain the Mayor’s Office if Olivia Delgado resigned (she is still a senator) and Airiam Álvarez was the candidate.
