La Laguna (Tenerife) (EFE) “The outstretched hand”, they have warned that they will not give away the mayor’s office to the socialist Luis Yeray Gutiérrez.
The elected councilors Rubens Ascanio, from USP, and Alberto Rodríguez, from Drago Verde, have lamented in statements to the media, that after only two meetings with the PSOE, this party has limited itself to asking them if tomorrow in the constitution session of the City Council both will vote in favor of his candidacy.
In this regard, both have stressed that if an agreement is not reached this afternoon, for which they consider that there is still time “because there are no red lines”, they will vote for their respective candidates, because they have asserted that they are not going to give “a blank check” ” to the PSOE.
In the last elections of May 28, the PSOE obtained ten councilors, USP 2 and Drago Verdes another two with which, if an agreement was reached, they would add the 14 councilors necessary to govern in majority.
The leader of USP in La Laguna, Rubens Ascanio, has stressed that this day represents “a key moment” with 24 hours to go to constitute the municipal corporation, where “it is viable and feasible” to form a government of progress, “which is what the lagoons and the lagoons voted”.
For this there is a full predisposition that has materialized in a base document with more than 250 proposals agreed with DVC and that, in his opinion, could be validated with the PSOE “this afternoon in less than four hours” and thus give a sufficient majority tomorrow to the ratification as mayor of La Laguna of Luis Yeray Gutiérrez.
“There are no red lines or excuses that if we get along badly (with DVC) as an impediment, that does not exist. We have a height of vision that is called La Laguna and with that long gaze a proposal for an agreement has been built for the municipality, but we cannot give a blank check if we do not know who the government is going to settle for ”, Ascanio warned.
For some reason “that we do not understand because they have not wanted to explain it to us”, he continued, the PSOE has not wanted to speak more than an agreement for the investiture, for which reason USP asks the socialist formation to clarify what its going to be decision or “this new mandate will start very badly, in a precarious situation”.
Alberto Rodríguez has ratified that with USP it has been “very easy” to reach a programmatic agreement “seriously and discreetly” but DVC has had to “resist leaked lies that it demanded 200,000 mayoral tenures and 800,000 government areas to try to condition the negotiation with a false message that we are engaged in a battle of armchairs”.
We must ask the PSOE “what is the alternative” and if it wants to “lead to the right” or already has an agreement in this sense and does not dare to make it explicit, which in his opinion would be “a monumental error, not only political, but also democratic”, because, in the opinion of Alberto Rodríguez, it is not what the citizens voted for, including the thousands of socialist voters in La Laguna.
For this reason, he has insisted that “under no circumstances” will they support the Mayor’s Office for the PSOE if there is no programmatic agreement that endorses the citizen vote and if Gutiérrez believes that he will have it without the need to detail specific measures “he is making a mistake.”
The PSOE has so far offered “very vague answers” and has not gone into the heart of the matter. If it is “a negotiating strategy to put pressure on us, it will not work, because we do not work due to pressure or blackmail and if it is a question of a turn to the right, let them know that they are going to have very tough opposition”, Alberto Rodríguez has pointed out.
In turn, he has urged the PSOE to say “with courage” if it already has an alternative pact, because “what is at stake” is if in the third municipality of the Canary Islands its City Council is configured as what “the people voted for: as a dam to the advance of right-wing policies”.
Rubens Ascanio, from USP, has read the first two points of the document sent to the PSOE, in which support for the investiture of Luis Yeray Gutiérrez is guaranteed and that the three formations assume the commitment not to present a motion of censure nor support other groups that could formulate it.
This demonstrates the will to build a long-term, stable, trustworthy and project pact for the municipality, Ascanio has maintained, for whom if said agreement does not finally take place “it is that the Romans slipped into the Gallic village.” EFE
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