Santa Cruz de Tenerife (EFE).- The forest fire in Puntagorda (La Palma) has changed the development of the solemn act of inauguration of the Government of the Canary Islands, held in Santa Cruz de Tenerife but presided over telematically by Fernando Clavijo from La Palma, where he went to continue the work of extinction.
“We do not choose the context in which we govern, but we do choose how we react to it,” the president of the Canary Islands told his new government from a distance.
“We said that we had to get used to living in change and this is the change, the first telematic takeover in the Canary Islands,” he said.
The Government of the Canary Islands is supported by an agreement between four parties: the Canary Islands Coalition (CC), the Popular Party (PP), the Gomera Socialist Group (ASG) and the Independent Herreña Group (AHI). All but ASG have directors in the executive.
In the opposition are the PSOE, which won the elections without a majority and without the possibility of reissuing the progressive pact of the previous legislature, Nueva Canarias and Vox.
The President of the Canary Islands, whose telematic intervention took place from the headquarters of the Cabildo de La Palma, was accompanied by two of the new councillors, the two palmeros, who took office on their island due to the fire: Nieves Lady Barreto, Councilor for the Presidency, Public Administrations, Justice and Security, and Mariano Hernández Zapata, Minister of Ecological Transition and Energy.
The other members of the executive took office at the headquarters of the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Clavijo expressed his gratitude to them, especially his vice president, Manuel Domínguez, president of the PP of the Canary Islands, for “his generosity”, for “making everything so easy” and for “putting the interest of the Canary Islands above all else”.
First, Manuel Domínguez was sworn in, who took office as Vice President and as Minister of Economy, Industry, Commerce and the Self-Employed.
The other members of the Government then promised or swore their positions.
The executive is made up of thirteen councils: there are seven councilors from the Canary Islands Coalition (CC), five from the Popular Party (PP), including Vice President Manuel Domínguez, and one from the Agrupación Herreña Independiente (AHI).
The composition of the new Government of the Canary Islands is as follows:
Fernando Clavijo Batlle, president of the Canary Islands (CC).
Manuel Domínguez Rodríguez, Vice President of the Government of the Canary Islands and Minister of Economy, Industry, Commerce and the Self-Employed (PP).
Pablo Rodríguez Valido, Minister of Public Works, Housing and Mobility (CC).
Matilde Pastora Asián González, Advisor for Finance and Relations with the European Union (PP).
Nieves Lady Barreto Hernández, Minister of the Presidency, Public Administrations, Justice and Security (CC).
Hipólito Alejandro Suárez Nuez, Advisor on Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports (PP).
Manuel Miranda Medina, Minister of Territorial Policy, Territorial Cohesion and Water (CC).
Jéssica del Carmen de León Verdugo, Minister of Tourism and Employment (PP).
Migdalia María Machín Tavío, advisor of Universities, Science and Innovation and Culture (CC).
Mariano Hernández Zapata, Minister of Ecological Transition and Energy (PP).
María Candelaria Delgado Toledo, Minister of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Children and Families (CC).
Esther María Monzón Monzón, Minister of Health (CC).
Alejandro Narvay Quintero Castañeda, Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Sovereignty (AHI). EFE