José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga has won the Adeje municipal elections for the tenth time and will make history by being in power for 40 years after first being elected in 1987. The secretary of the PSOE in the Canary will begin a new term after successfully combating controversy surrounding the Cuna del Alma project in Costa Adeje.
The PSOE has obtained 13 councillors in Adeje, one less than in the 2019 elections. The Canarian Coalition has won a representative and will go from occupying four seats in the City Council to five, and the PP maintains its only councillor, just like Podemos.
No one can doubt the good that Fraga and his party have done for Adeje in this period, although it hasn’t always been plain sailing. In recent years, several controversies have come to light that have directly affected the mayor of this tourist enclave in the south of Tenerife.
In 2017, the opposition warned that "old politics" reigned in Adeje when the mayor handpicked his sister as an adviser to the Mayor's Office. Two years later, the Canarian Coalition told Fraga to convert the City Hall into a "family society" for incorporating his nephew Daniel Melo Rodríguez into the government group as councillor for Transparency.
The mayor is also one of the 13 defendants in the Monkey Beach Club case, the criminal case that investigates alleged crimes against the territory for the expansion of the facilities of this place located at the foot of Troya Beach. It continues to function normally but is embroiled in significant judicial and administrative problems.
However, none of this seems to have taken its toll on Fraga, and he will continue the work and visions he has outlined, which have made Adeje what it is today.
ARONA: The PSOE, led by Jose Julian Mena, have won the vote again in Arona, but the party has lost its absolute majority. To say the last four years have been up and down for the Mayor of Arona would be an understatement, and he will have to form a pact with another party to continue his rule and move forward now that the controversy he took over has been laid to rest.
GRAN CANARIA: Antonio Morales has established himself as the head of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria. The Nueva Canarias (NC) candidate has, once again, won the vote on the island for the third consecutive term.
LAS PALMAS: Carolina Darias has won in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria giving the PSOE their only victory among the ten largest cities in Spain, and increasing the majority to 50,000 votes in the process. Darias, who was born in Las Palmas, came to prominence during the pandemic when she was the National Minister of Health, but she decided to step down to run for Mayor of Las Palmas in these elections.
TENERIFE: Pedro Martín has been re-elected as island president with 28% of the votes. Just over 4,000 votes separated him from his rival, Rosa Dávila (CC). Martín has maintained the same number of seats (11) as in the 2019 elections.
LANZAROTE: The race between Dolores Corujo (PSOE) and Oswaldo Betancort (CC) for the Presidency of the Cabildo de Lanzarote was only decided at the last minute. Betancort is now at the head of the corporation after the former mayor of Teguise ousted controversial Corujo from power at the last moment.
