Three councils and fifteen town halls. That, with nuances and better or worse love between the protagonists, is the best result of municipal elections and insulares of the 28M that they have in their hand Canarian Coalition (CC) and Popular Party (PP). One of the objectives to preserve during the conversations will be to take care of this treasure, which contains a more qualitative than quantitative value.
He Council of Tenerifehe Fuerteventura Town Hall and the Lanzarote councilas well as and the municipalities of Santa Cruz of Tenerife, Reef either San Bartolome de Tirajana They are included in the pool of agreements.
The nationalists would score nine municipalities and the three councils in contentionwhile for the popular there would be six town halls. Insular institutions aside, 40% –six– of the municipalities that are in Veremos are concentrated in Tenerife. This is good news for these parties, at least a priori, since understanding is fluid here. The rest are shared between Fuerteventurathree; The Palmthree others; Lanzarotetwo and Gran Canariaone.
Starting with the latter, the seven councilors obtained by the PP-AV commanded by Marco Aurelio Perez, added to the other seven achieved by the CC of Alejandro Marichal should allow the return of the first to the mayoralty of the jewel in the tourist crown of the South of Gran Canaria.
Now, the nationalists have already dropped that they want the main chair of the noble hall for themselves, which muddies the starting positions. Even more so when they remember that four years ago they already joined forces with the PSOE and NC to make the socialist conchi narvaez. However, that experiment did not take long to blow up.
Let’s say that in the case of the southern locality or any other, an absolute blockade position is reached. What plunger works? CC and PP are going to manage the autonomous administrative structure and there are many vice ministries and general directorates to cover. If it is understood that agreement is impossible, there is the possibility of remove –by elevation– the weakest link, that is, who is not going to be mayor or president of the council, and place him in charge of one of them.
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Before delving into the municipal level, there are three insular institutions that are on the board of the negotiation. The only one in which the popular or nationalists have not won is in Tenerife, where the mandate will start without changes in the presidency. the socialist Peter Martin prevailed with eleven directors, followed by Coalition, with ten, and PP, eight. The sum of these two forms a totally incontestable majority.
Both in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura the nationalists prevailed. In the first of these councils, with an eight-way tie with the Socialists led by the current president -in office-, Dolores Corujo. Again adding to the popular ones, who obtained four seats, CC is enough to govern four years. In addition, unlike what happened in Tenerife, from the first day, because Oswaldo Betancort (CC) he was the candidate who obtained the most votes; specifically 69 more than Corujo.
Finally, in Fuerteventura Lola García (CC) was victorious again. Its eight advisers together with the five of the PP also guarantee that the mandate has a solid base; Contrary to what happened four years ago, when his victory was sterile before a majority of the left commanded by the PSOE.
The relationship between popular and nationalists seems well-oiled in those three councils. The municipal reality, however, contains some edges so that the national-conservative ship ends up being built. By islands, in Tenerife there are five municipalities in which there would be a mayor of CC–Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Adeje, Granadilla de Abona, Guía de Isora and Icod de los Vinos– and only one in which municipal power would remain in the hands of the popular, Guimar.
The casuistry is extensive, from the much more than probable vendetta that the winner will suffer in the capital of Tenerife, the socialist Patricia Hernández, at the hands of Jose Manuel Bermudez (DC) –four years ago he won and she prevented him from governing–, until the unknown of Icod. In this town, the Icodense Alternative (Aicod) won, founded by an ex-socialist), but CC and PP have enough councilors to govern jointly.
In Lanzarote, Arrecife will continue in the hands of Ástrid Pérez (PP) if the nationalists support it. By a hair’s breadth, because both parties have seven councilors –enough to deactivate the PSOE’s nine– but the popular ones obtained one more percentage point of the votes cast.
In Teguise The Socialists also won (8 councilors), but no matter how much support they receive, if necessary, an abstention from Vox would be enough to prevent the PSOE from governing and thus give power to the Nationalists (7) and PP (3).
In the capital of Fuerteventura, the Coalition victory was clear, but the seven ediles obtained need the reinforcement of the four popular ones for stability.
The same scheme is repeated in The olive, with the same seven councilors and in this case, five that the popular ones would contribute. In tuinejeIt’s even clearer. The tie 6 to 6 favors the popular ones, who obtained more support, and would govern with a wide margin.
In Santa Cruz de La Palma, the results clear the way for the former president of the Canarian PP and senator Asier Antona. He won with two advisers ahead of the PSOE –seven by five– and adding the four nationalists would be enough. As things in La Palma are governed by a particular logic, if the La Palma nationalists refuse that support, Antona will only have to call the PSOE to guarantee the mayoralty.
AND for entanglement that of Mazo, where the plenary session is highly fragmented, the CC-PP alliance is arithmetically feasible, but the nationalists could govern with the support of the Alternative Electoral Movement (former CC) and Mazo Activa (former PSOE).
Results of the 28M elections in the Canary Islands
Remember that the May 28 You can consult in La Provincia the results of the regional elections, council elections and municipal elections in Canaries 2023:
