 The former president of the nationalist party, Dimas Martín, a former senator and president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, has been convicted six times and imprisoned four times for various crimes of corruption between 1998 and 2004, including forgery, bribery and embezzlement.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).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.