The island secretary of the PSOE of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, on behalf of the party and in her own name, has shown her "enormous regret" for the death of socialist militant Enrique Pérez Parrilla.
Likewise, Corujo has invited the socialist family and the population in general to come, starting at eight o'clock this Saturday, to the burning chapel installed in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, to give a last goodbye to who was president of the Institution and comfort his family.
"We are left with a good man, a socialist with deep convictions and unwavering values. We are losing a generous colleague who did not hesitate to put himself at the service of those of us who required his experience," said Corujo.
The island secretary recalled Enrique Pérez's "extraordinary ability to transmit the convictions and values he defended." "I joined the PSOE, like so many people, after listening to Enrique in a rally. That serene and affable conversationalist was transformed into a vehement speaker capable of conveying reasons and feelings at the same time," recalled the president.
The "legacy" of Enrique Pérez Parrilla
Enrique Pérez Parrilla, born in Arrecife in 1948, was president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, regional deputy and mayor of Arrecife representing the PSOE, an organization in which he has actively militated. "But, above all, this notable son of Arrecife has been a professor of many generations of students teaching mathematics or physics," they emphasize from his party.
"With a degree in Physics, a professor of secondary education and retired from teaching, in Enrique Pérez Parrilla we recognize the commitment to the public from his firm political convictions," they add. In this regard, they define him as a man "committed to the social democratic ideology" and recall that "his firm commitment to freedoms led him to join the PSOE in 1975, after coming into contact with the student movement in the city of Barcelona, where he studied university".
In 1983, at the age of 35, he was elected president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, a position he would hold on three more occasions (1983-87, 1994-95, 1996-99 and 1999-2003).
"In Enrique Pérez Parrilla, the socialist family highlights his responsibility to the public from his firm political convictions and his active militancy, and, in particular, to the man who, from 1986, being president of the Cabildo, promoted modern territorial and urban planning on the island", they emphasize, highlighting that Pérez Parrilla thus inaugurated "a new cycle in the Lanzarote tradition of preserving the territory, designing subsequent measures to contain tourism growth and advance towards the sustainability of development".
And it is that they emphasize that "under the inspiration of Pérez Parrilla, the island moved towards innovative paths that are specified in the PIOT itself of 1991, the first in the Canary Islands; in the Lanzarote Sustainable Development Strategy in the Biosphere in 1997; or in the First Revision of the PIOT, known as the island tourist “moratorium”, in 2000".
"Concepts such as territorial and urban planning, the island as an integrated whole and not as a simple addition of municipal pieces of artificial limits, load capacity, zoning of tourist development, introduction of rhythms and ceiling to the growth of the accommodation offer, deepening in the sustainability of development, declassification of land and tourist places or numerous actions materialized in the Council of the Biosphere Reserve, are some of the decisive contributions of Enrique Pérez Parrilla to society and to the island's public life", adds the PSOE, which highlights that "he proposed nothing less than a new orientation of development, a process that, even today, the positions contrary to these approaches have not managed to reverse and that constitutes, without a doubt, the most valuable legacy of Enrique Pérez to the island of Lanzarote".
"In the physicist and in the socialist we will always remember his valuable contribution to leaving the island better armed to face the challenges of the present and the future", conclude his party colleagues.
