There has been no surprise in the designation of the candidates of the Lanzarote Popular Party to the Parliament of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo of Lanzarote. Ástrid Pérez will once again head the list to the Regional Chamber, while Jacobo Medina will do so in the First Institution of the island.
This Thursday, the president of the Canarian populars, Manuel Domínguez, presented the candidates at the island headquarters of the organization, as he did in Gran Canaria and Tenerife. For Pérez it is the third time that she has presented herself to Parliament, of which she has been a regional deputy since June 2015. For his part, Jacobo Medina has been a councilor of the Cabildo since the last elections of 2019 and was previously a councilor in the Arrecife City Council.
The presentation made this Thursday corresponded only to these two institutions, although in the case of Ástrid Pérez, everything indicates that she will also repeat as a candidate for the Arrecife City Council, of which she has been mayor since the beginning of this mandate. "We will define it in the next few days, but nothing prevents her from doing that double," Domínguez said in this regard.
The popular leader defended that his party "has shown in these months that it has a project, a program and a plan to govern in all those issues that really concern the people of the Canary Islands”, so he has asked for an “opportunity to demonstrate the management capacity of the PP”.
"Proud" of the candidates
In his appearance before the media, the regional president was "proud" of the candidates, highlighting that Astrid Pérez “is the best candidate” that the Popular Party can have to represent Lanzarote and La Graciosa in Parliament, "as she has an indisputable experience and work”. Regarding the candidate for the Cabildo, Jacobo Medina, Manuel Domínguez wanted to “value the management carried out” during the time of government in the institution and the “positive balance carried out on a day-to-day basis".
Medina, former vice president and current councilor of the Cabildo, thanked Domínguez and the island president for their support for his candidacy and pointed out that his challenge is to improve the results of 2019 "to be able to govern the island institution with a presidency" of the PP. “The departure of the Popular Party from the government of the Cabildo in November 2021 marked a before and after, since then there has been a severe decline in management. There are many unresolved problems in socio-health matters, tourism planning, the territory, renewable energies, and we are here to work and not to waste time,” Medina asserted.
For her part, the current mayor of Arrecife and candidate for Parliament, Astrid Pérez, after thanking the regional president for his support, wanted to highlight the “pride of being part of Manuel Domínguez's team, who has proven to be a person who keeps his promises and who is trustworthy, as they know and already know very well in the municipal sphere, and who always has each and every one of the islands in mind”.
Pérez pointed out that “the eleven years in which the PSOE and CC have been alternating the Government of the Canary Islands have been eleven years of systematic mistreatment in budgetary matters for Lanzarote and La Graciosa”. The also parliamentarian took advantage of her appearance before the media to once again question "the lack of investment by the executive" in both islands. “We are at the bottom of the financing for health card and for health, we represent barely 1.6% of the investment in socio-health places, we are still at the bottom in terms of installation of renewable energies and, on top of that, with 151,000 inhabitants we receive practically the same amount in transfers to the Cabildo as La Gomera receives with 21,000 inhabitants”, denounced Astrid Pérez, who considers that "the hope for all this to change is the alternative represented by Manolo Dominguez and the Popular Party".
