Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura) (EFE).- The nationalist David de Vera became mayor of Puerto del Rosario this Saturday, after four years of the Canarian Coalition in opposition, with the aim of recovering “the pride and institutional respect that the capital of Fuerteventura deserves”.
David de Vera has been proclaimed mayor with twelve votes in favour, seven from the Canary Islands Coalition, four from the PSOE, including Juan Jiménez, mayor of the capital during the last legislature, and the surprise vote of Mayra Marichal, from the Assemblies Municipal Governments of Fuerteventura (AMF).
The Canary Islands Coalition was the force with the most votes in the municipality with 3,922 votes that allowed it to obtain seven councillors, followed by Fuerteventura Avanza, a party created during the last legislature and which with 2,672 votes managed to be the second force in the municipality.
The four councilors of Fuerteventura Avanza have voted against this Saturday, as have the four councilors of the Popular Party and the councilor of Vox, a political formation that enters the Town Hall of the capital of Majorera for the first time and that has come to present its candidacy during the full.
The pact between nationalists and socialists signed in the capital of Fuerteventura extends to the municipalities of Pájara, Tuineje and La Oliva and to the island’s Cabildo, where Lola García (CC) will take office on June 26 with the support of the five PSOE advisors.
The agreement has left the Popular Party out of all the island’s administrations despite being the second most voted force in some of them.
After 12:30 p.m., David de Vera has become mayor and in his speech he has promised that he will dedicate himself “unconditionally” to the municipality to “recover the pride and institutional respect that Puerto del Rosario deserves as the capital of Fuerteventura”.
During his speech, the nationalist outlined the challenges that the government team will face over the next four years.
Among them, he has cited the improvement of urban planning, the creation of infrastructures such as the sports city, improving accessibility or renewing hydraulic infrastructures, which “is sorely needed, assuming responsibility as part of the Fuerteventura Water Supply Consortium ( CAAF).
The new government group intends to carry out a policy where people are the main axis, for which it undertakes to reinforce the home help service through mechanisms that care for the patient and caregivers.
He has also assured that they will make an effort to generate employment and economic activity for young people, with fiscal measures that serve as a stimulus to small businesses, the self-employed and entrepreneurs.
Support for the primary sector as an alternative for the economic diversification of the municipality; The commitment to culture and the care of historical heritage as a “strategic sector of a municipality that looks to the future but has its past very much in mind” are other challenges that the new government will face.
The new alderman of the Majorera capital has advanced that from Monday itself he will take charge of the proposed commitments, such as the change in Urban Planning or Social Services, an area that he will lead himself.
De Vera was a councilor of the Majorero Cabildo, where he became the insular head of Water during the time that the Canary Islands Coalition was part of the government group in the last legislature.
Between 2015 and 2019 he was General Director of Livestock of the Government of the Canary Islands. EFE