Lanzarote Independents Party

Lanzarote Independents Party (Spanish: Partido de Independientes de Lanzarote, PIL) is a political party in Lanzarote (Canary Islands).[1]

The Independent Party of Lanzarote (PIL) is a Spanish political party whose scope is the Canary Island of Lanzarote. It is a party of Canarian island and nationalist type that defends the right to self-determination of the islands. It currently has agreements to stand for election with the Canary Islands Nationalist Federation, the Canary Islands Nationalist Party and the Canary Islands Coalition.

Created from the Agrupación Independientes de Lanzarote (AIL), within the Agrupaciones Independientes de Canarias, in 1989 it was constituted as the Partido de Independientes de Lanzarote, later participating in the formation of the Coalición Canaria. After a series of discontents with the political line of the Canary Islands Coalition, the PIL dissociates itself from it. In the elections to the Parliament of the Canary Islands in 2003, it presented itself in coalition with other parties such as the Partido Nacionalista Canario within the Federación Nacionalista Canaria.

In recent years, several cases of corruption involving members of the PIL have been reported. The former president of the nationalist party, Dimas Martín, a former senator and president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, has been convicted six times[2] and imprisoned four times for various crimes of corruption between 1998 and 2004, including forgery, bribery and embezzlement.[3]

The PIL has acceded, among others, to the mayor's office in the municipalities of Teguise (Dimas Martín, and José Dimas, son of the previous one) and Arrecife (Cándido Armas, after buying the vote of a councillor for 26 million pesetas), or the vice-presidency of the Cabildo of Lanzarote (Fabián Martín, son of the president of the PIL).[4][5]

In the municipal and regional elections of June 2007, he ran with the CCN, but was not represented in the Canarian Parliament, although he achieved a good representation in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, where he was the second political force after the PSOE. It is precisely with this party that he has maintained government pacts in the Cabildo, as well as in some main town halls of Lanzarote, including Arrecife. In the 2008 general elections, it ran with the Canary Islands Coalition, without achieving this electoral pact representation either in the Spanish Senate for the island of Lanzarote or in the Congress of Deputies, by district of the province of Las Palmas.