The Popular Party has focused its campaign activity this Saturday, May 13, on the presentation of the teams that make up the lists for the Parliament of the Canary Islands for the Lanzarote constituency and the Cabildo of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, led by Astrid Pérez and Jacobo Medina, respectively.
In an event that brought together more than 200 people, which was also attended by candidates for the different municipalities, Astrid Pérez and Jacobo Medina proved to be "the perfect tandem to lead the great challenges that the two islands must face during the next four years", according to the Cabildo.
In this sense, Astrid Pérez pointed out that “another victory for the left in the Canary Islands and we are lost because neither the flower pact nor CC have taken into account the residents of Lanzarote”, also highlighting the unfair distribution of the budget of the Government of the Canary Islands for the island.
“It is not fair that Lanzarote receives 15.9 million and La Gomera 15.7”, they state. “We can no longer tolerate this situation of discrimination towards Lanzarote and La Graciosa”, assured the candidate for the Parliament of the Canary Islands, who highlighted the great team that accompanies her “with which we are going to work together to improve the position of the two islands in the regional context”.
“The Popular Party has defended, during this last legislature, the need to install a permanent detachment of the Canarian Police in Lanzarote, something that Ángel Víctor Torres has systematically ignored”, they comment.
"I assure you that as of May 29, with Manuel Dominguez as president of the Canary Islands, we will speed up the procedures and the island will finally have a permanent detachment of the police that belongs to everyone," Pérez said.
“During these last four years, the waiting lists, which they announced so much that they had a plan to reduce them, have increased with record numbers on the island”, added the candidate for Parliament, who took the opportunity to ensure that as of May 29 “a plan will be launched to drastically reduce those lists”.
Likewise, she has insisted on one of the great demands during this last legislature: the medicalized helicopter in Lanzarote. “We are going to continue demanding it out of respect for our neighbors.” “It is unfair that, being the island furthest from the reference Hospital in the province, we still do not have a fixed helicopter in Lanzarote in 2023,” she adds.
In addition, Perez has announced one of the PP's proposals for the next legislature: the construction of a new hospital center in Arrecife. “We are going to fight for the construction of a new hospital in the capital, which guarantees above all the quality care of the island's residents,” she said.
On the other hand, Astrid Pérez has insisted on the party's work in defending the construction of social housing in Lanzarote. “After 27 years without building social housing in Lanzarote, it was the PP who initiated the procedures for the transfer of land to house social housing in Arrecife,” recalls Pérez, who has criticized that the PSOE has “taken four years to manage only 134 homes of the more than 400 that were initially planned.”
“We have shown that another management is possible,” she makes clear. “And we trust that the residents of Lanzarote and La Graciosa will continue to trust us, because we do deliver,” she concluded.
For his part, Jacobo Medina, began the presentation of his candidacy and that of his team, stating that “the residents of Lanzarote and La Graciosa deserve brave politicians”. “I am not referring to politicians who promise that they are going to execute large projects, or that they are going to sign large agreements, of which there are many, but politicians who are really brave when it comes to putting a solution to the fundamental and historical problems of the two islands.”
In this sense, Medina pointed out “the madness that it means that in the middle of 2023 there are residents on both islands who, when they open the tap, not a drop of water comes out or farmers who, with luck, receive water on their farm once or twice a week”, he states. “This situation has to change and we are going to change it as of May 29, when the PP is at the head of the highest island institution,” he promised.
For him, “it is also unacceptable that we continue to see as normal that the young people of the island have to go to Tenerife, Gran Canaria or the peninsula because here they can only study Tourism or Nursing and that they do so in terrible conditions because no president of the Cabildo, who is not from the PP, has been able to support the creation of a university campus in Lanzarote, which for us is fundamental,” he acknowledges.
“Citizens will have in me a president who will be above political colors and who will defend the interests of the two islands wherever necessary, who will not bend or yield to partisan issues”, as has happened during this term, “with a socialist president completely dedicated to the cause of her superiors, Torres and Sánchez”, he denounced.
Jacobo Medina defended “the work carried out by the party during the first two years in the island government” and stressed that “he will maintain the priority in carrying out the modification of the PIOL”, “which is what Lanzarote really needs to be able to move forward because what this island is saturated with is unfulfilled promises and empty messages”, he stressed.
"The island is saturated with unfulfilled promises and empty messages"
“What this island really needs are people who work for tourist excellence and to recover the lost leadership; to recover La Geria and the primary sector; to make it possible for our people to camp peacefully and in a regulated manner; for transport for all and for modern and quality infrastructures”, said Medina, who concluded his speech by requesting the vote “to all those citizens who want to move forward and a real change in island politics”.