The mayor of Arrecife, Astrid Pérez, has acknowledged that being at the head of the local corporation is "very difficult" due to the "administrative obstacles" and "the major structural problems caused by public employees."
Pérez, although she states in an interview on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero that on many occasions it has been "a suffering" to hold the position, will run again as a candidate in the upcoming elections in May, because she wants to "complete what she has started."
Public employees, the main problem
The current leader has indicated that the vast majority of problems suffered by the capital have been generated by the public sector contract law, which was launched so that municipalities would not have high levels of debt or deficit, but has managed to "make management very difficult."
"It needs to be modified because it is not possible that to spend 200 or 300 thousand euros, it takes, on average, about two and a half years. I know there are town halls where it goes well, but not in Arrecife."
The same situation occurs with the City Council's public employees: "There are others where there is a higher percentage of good or regular workers than bad ones, but here we have major structural problems caused by them, which we cannot solve because it is not our responsibility."
On this, Pérez indicates that the current general secretary of the town, who has been through four other local administrations, considers that "in all of them, people work to make things happen, but in Arrecife, people work to prevent things from happening."
"We have a much better town hall than the one we found"
Despite all these problems, the Popular Party candidate for mayor of Arrecife defends that the town hall she found four years ago "has nothing to do with the one now."
"When I arrived at the position, there were people who hadn't come to work for months, and we immediately hired a person to register the signing," recalls the first mayor.
Therefore, she defends that thanks to the management of her team "we have a much better City Council than the one we found" and that she wants to continue working so that this continues, "completing what I have started."
"Arrecife needs good technical and administrative teams, but also a good political group like we have been," concludes the current mayor.
