The first step has been taken to move forward with the motion of censure against the president of the Consell Insular de Formentera, Llorenç Córdoba: José Manuel Alcaraz has presented this morning his resignation as councilor of Sa Unió, the first sine qua non condition of GxF and PSOE to support the operation to overthrow the president.
However, now a new negotiation is opened and that could become a complex stumbling block: who will be the candidate to take the baton of the Consell in the motion of censure to be presented in the Plenary. The second condition established by the left-wing groups of the island to accompany the motion was that the candidate should be from Compromís and not from the Partido Popular, within the Sa Unió coalition. However, the Sa Unió assembly has chosen the PP councilor Verónica Castelló as candidate, Alcaraz’s partner and who wanted to keep the remunerated seat on the Port Authority’s Board of Directors . Although the PP say they remain open to the consensus that emerges from the negotiations, they want to pay for Alcaraz’s resignation by putting one of their own at the helm of the island.
Consensus president?
The other sine qua non condition for GxF and PSOE to facilitate the return of Sa Unió in a minority government is the figure of the future president. Although Javier Serra has escaped the censure of the Code of Ethics Commission despite the manifest incompatibility of his participation in Marina Formentera, the company of Angel Bustos dedicated to the operation of marinas, the president of Compromis, a party coalition with the PP in Sa Unió, would be ruled out to assume the rod of command of Formentera. All eyes are on Óscar Portas, former councilor of Culture and Heritage, also affiliated to Compromís and who has been acting as the unofficial spokesman of the coalition in matters relating to the crisis that began more than a year ago.
Time is of the essence
The opposing groups aspire to close the agreement this week to present the motion of censure before the end of the year, taking into account that the processing is 10 working days. “Once these signatures are registered, there are 10 working days. And the Plenary is convened after those 10 days at 12 o’clock in the morning,” Rafael Ramirez, of the PSOE, detailed yesterday.
