Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE) candidacy after learning that he has been affiliated with the PP since 1989, although he has assured that he never paid a fee and that he has never participated in the organic life of that party.
The PP of the Canary Islands itself has confirmed that Montenegro is a popular militant and that it has transferred his situation to the organization’s Rights and Guarantees Committee upon verification, because the party’s statutes prohibit a member from presenting himself for another political force.
In a letter to which EFE has had access, the Canarian PP requests the Guarantees Committee that, if Montenegro’s intentions are confirmed, disciplinary proceedings be opened for him and he is expelled.
The protagonist of this controversy, who claims to have been affiliated by a relative in 1989 when he did not even live in Las Palmas, has indicated, in a statement sent to EFE, that he has sent a letter to Darias in which he states that he has always sense of an “independent” person and who joined the PSOE list because he considered that he is “the best option for the city”.
“I would not want to harm that candidacy in any way and I have decided to step aside and continue collaborating with it in everything that is necessary until we win the next elections,” he concludes.
Miguel Ángel Montenegro directed the Heidelberg private school in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria until last June, when he was dismissed after 14 years in charge of the center. In his place, since January, a former Vox councilor in Paracuellos del Jarama (Madrid), Ignacio Hernández Antón, has directed the school.
As the newspaper Canarias Ahora announced at the time, during the board of directors in which Montenegro was dismissed, one of the members said that “a socialist could not run the school.”
In a brief statement, the Darias campaign committee thanked Montenegro for “his generosity and commitment to the candidacy.”
Sources from the federal leadership of the PSOE have specified that, after this incident, “the list will run”, which until this afternoon was the following in the top eight positions: Carolina Darias, Francisco Hernández Spínola, Inmaculada Medina, Josué Íñiguez, Carmen Luz Varga , Miguel Ángel Montenegro, Saturnina Santana and Mauricio Roque.
They have not specified, however, if the number 7, Saturnina Santana, will replace Montenegro in the 6th position, without further ado; Or if, on the contrary, to maintain the PSOE’s commitment to zipper lists for men/women or women/men, the place left free at number 6 Montenegro is replaced by the man who goes to number 8, Mauricio Roque. EFE