Victoria Rosell, head of the Unidas Podemos (UP) list for Congress for the province of Las Palmas; Hiurma Castejón, UP candidate for Congress, and Jorge Peñas, UP candidate for the Senate for Lanzarote and La Graciosa, participated in a meeting with citizens and various social groups, held this afternoon in Arrecife (Lanzarote).
In this first official campaign event, Victoria Rosell asked for votes for her party: "Unidas Podemos is a party that is committed to a more social Spain, to the return of the money from the bank bailout, to raising taxes on the wealthy...?"
In this sense, Rosell referred to revolving doors and the commitment of the purple formation to govern for the social majority and against corruption. "We believe that a Government with a strong Unidas Podemos will be able to do things that parties that owe so much money to the banks and whose members end up on the Boards of Directors of electricity companies will not do."
She also highlighted the role that Unidas Podemos has played in Congress in favor of the citizens of the Canary Islands: "The increase in the minimum interprofessional wage, which the Canarian Coalition opposed when the most social budgets in history were presented, is now in the pockets of 100,000 Canarian men and women who were earning the minimum."
At the event, representatives of the Kellys Lanzarote, the Platform for Decent Housing, activists from 27S against climate change and groups of Latin migrants, explained in first person their experiences as social groups. For Hiurma Castejón, candidate of Unidas Podemos to the Congress, these meetings are fundamental to know in depth the reality of the islands. "During this campaign we want to receive feedback from the citizens. In Lanzarote there are problems with housing, different sensations with the issue of migration... We want to listen to the groups that fight for these situations," said Castejón.
The candidate of Unidas Podemos to the Senate for Lanzarote and La Graciosa, Jorge Peñas, spoke about the specific problems of the island: "Lanzarote went from being known as the island of volcanoes to being the island of the 200 defendants". For Peñas, temporary and precarious work in the tourism sector and evictions are some of the main problems of the island. "In Lanzarote there is one eviction a day while there are houses owned by banks that are closed." For the candidate to the Senate, the only way for the island to get out of this housing blockage is to "intervene in the rental market to avoid abusive prices, as is already done in countries like Germany."