The mayor of Arrecife, the popular Ástrid Pérez, has been named vice president of the Education Commission of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP). The mayor of Arrecife accedes in representation of the third capital of the Canary Islands to the largest body of representation of Spanish municipalism.
In its meeting on December 17, the Governing Board of the FEMP approved the appointments of presidents and vice presidents of the Working Commissions and Networks for the 2019-2023 term, after the constitution of the local corporations in Spain, which took place on June 15.
From the Arrecife City Council it is highlighted that Ástrid Pérez, also president of the PP in Lanzarote, and regional parliamentarian for the islands of La Graciosa and Lanzarote, is a lawyer by profession and has worked in the world of teaching as a tutor at the Uned, in its territorial center on the island of Lanzarote.
The first mayor of the capital of Lanzarote is, as of this week, the vice president of one of the 27 working commissions for this mandate in the FEMP, where lines of work will be proposed as a participant in the permanent forum for dialogue with the State Administration, mainly through the Ministry of Education, with a view to establishing the necessary administrative coordination for the promotion and rationalization of the different educational actions.
Educational centers in Arrecife "that replace the old and deteriorated ones"
In terms of Education, the City Council highlights that Ástrid Pérez has taken several initiatives in these weeks, in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, to ensure that the regional budgets for the next 2020 include financial records for the Special Education Center to be built in Arrecife, the improvement of the Zonzamas Comprehensive Vocational Training Center, the improvement of schools in the neighborhoods of Arrecife and other areas of Lanzarote.
The mayor of Arrecife and parliamentarian of the PP advocates for the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands (with powers in education) to arbitrate a line of financing for the reconstruction of educational centers in the capital "that replace the old and deteriorated CEIP schools, many of them with more than fifty years of antiquity in their buildings".
