Astrid Pérez has been re-elected this Saturday as island president of the Popular Party of Lanzarote, obtaining 99.5% of the votes cast in the IX Extraordinary Island Congress held electronically due to health circumstances. Pérez also received the support of the delegates who overwhelmingly supported the management carried out by her team in recent years.
Astrid Pérez thanked the support she has received to continue leading the party towards 2023, noting that the first time she presented her candidacy she pledged that the PP would be the main political force on the island. "Well, she said, now is the time and in 2023 we have the opportunity to reap the rewards of years of work because we are in an unbeatable position to win the elections, govern alone and implement our program without limitations."
"We are a solvent party, a government party, which is demonstrating with facts and management that we are useful and necessary in the institutions and that, in these turbulent times, is what citizens want."
Astrid Pérez focused much of her speech on the party's base, on the membership, to whom she thanked for their affection and their great work. "We are all fellow travelers and we form a team of which I am deeply proud, because it is you who defend our management and our project in the street, in the day to day." "It is the militants of principles and values of the Popular Party who know better than anyone what it has cost to get here. We have arrived together and together, from unity, we are going to face this new stage," she said.
The newly elected president was excited and confident with her new team in which the current vice president of the Cabildo, Jacobo Medina, has been appointed General Secretary; Francisco Aparicio, Councilor for Sports of the Cabildo and president of the Emergency Consortium, island coordinator; and the Councilor for Social Services of Arrecife, María Jesús Tovar, president of the Island Electoral Committee.
For her part, the president of the PP of the Canary Islands, Australia Navarro, stressed that the results of the re-elected island president are the result of the effort and great dedication and work that Astrid Pérez and her team have done. "The residents of Arrecife are also seeing day by day the changes that the city is experiencing and your good management," she said.
Finally, the national Secretary of Organization of the Popular Party, Ana Beltrán, closed the Congress with an intervention in which she congratulated Astrid Pérez and all her colleagues for the great work they are developing on the island, "in this difficult and complex moment, and with an economic crisis that is also affecting, and very seriously, the island."
Members of the new executive and board of directors
Astrid Pérez wanted to surround herself with an experienced and renewed team, "with sufficient strength and capacity for work to boost the Popular Party to higher levels of government on the island." The following have been appointed members of the Executive:
Jacobo Medina, Francisco Aparicio, María Jesús Tovar, David Mayor, Ángel Vázquez, Sara Pérez, Yonathan de León, Yeziel Martin, José Francisco Hernández, Sergio Tejera, Toñi Suárez, Salvador Martínez, Yeneira de León, Ángela Hernández, Juan Monzón, Alejandro Rodríguez, Lorenzo Reyes, Juanjo López, Nerea Santana, Lara Cabrera, Concepción Pérez and Dámaso Viera.
Members of the new board of directors
As for the Island Board of Directors, the following have been appointed:
Teodoro Camacho, Davinia Déniz, Saro González, Vicente Dorta, Carmen Benito, Antonio Betancort Ramos, Klever Sánchez, Ignacio Herrero, Diego Ramos and Claudio Doreste. To them will be added the 26 public officials who enjoy the status of ex officio members of the committee
