Without the support of the PP in the southeast of Gran Canaria and CC out of coverage, the businessman in the automotive business, rental of apartments and industrial warehouses, Juan Acosta, begins the road of the cross to choose to occupy a position of responsibility in the Chamber of Commerce of Gran Canaria. A sympathizer of the parties in the southeast of Gran Canaria, in the PP they consider him responsible for the shift to NC of some employers' associations in the south of the island.
Facing the business race for the Gran Canaria Chamber, Acosta no longer has the same support as a few years ago for joining the order of the closed fist and becoming chamber vice president, managing information and stepping aside. In the businesses that the Acosta family now faces, some companies have ended up in commercial courts. Even the Fecao employer association is legally dissolved after failing to overcome a bankruptcy process.
"He was, in the past, a person who never bet on his people, always in any case with servile managers, people with little grounding, to put it finely," said a business leader from the capital of Gran Canaria who attributes to Acosta an "aggressive" role. humble", that is, "businessmen who pretend that they have nothing and are poor scare away support because in a position of that responsibility you have to go head-on and he likes to judge in ambiguity, that's why he's going to lose." Acosta would choose not to fight and negotiate a chamber vice presidency.
The companies Acosta Financial Services, Cadena Acosta Ferreterias, Promociones Econólmicas Sureste or the tourist company Sursol have been shaken before the Covid19 pandemic. In recent years, the president of the UnecXXI employers' association, a personalist business project not recognized by the CEOE and union centers, has been leaving his positions of power in Costa Financial Service, Acromotor, Automoción Acosta, Azudautos, Azudturis, Cadena Acosta, GESSA, Jurecar, Logacsur, Prosalopa, Vide or Vindaco
The Official State Gazette has published Ministerial Order ICT/1074/2021, of September 30, which declares open the electoral process for the renewal of the plenary session of the Chamber of Commerce of Gran Canaria. The chamber elections must be held until November 15, 2023. But in the spring of 2023 there are regional elections and the theory is that they will be in February 2022.