"I believe that this victory is the applause of an entire town to the work done with rigor and fundamentally to the work done with seriousness", said the president of the Popular Party in Lanzarote, Astrid Pérez, during an interview offered on Radio Lanzarote. In Pérez's opinion, the good results of her party are due to "the rigor and seriousness" with which the PP has worked and, "fundamentally, to the punishment of the ineffectiveness, paralysis and political apathy of the PSOE".
The group has won emphatically in Tías, where it has reached 1,351 votes (48.54 percent of the total); in Yaiza, where it has obtained 764 votes (44.01 percent of the total ballots of the municipality); and in San Bartolomé, where it has reached 1,265 (35.17 percent). With these results at the polls, the island president of the formation has been "absolutely satisfied and grateful to the people of Lanzarote for the support given to the party." In addition, she congratulated the presidents of the local committees of the three municipalities.
To maintain these results in future calls, the president proposes "work, work and work". "It is what we have been doing in recent times and what we are going to continue doing with greater force and with greater effort, if possible, and, of course, go to all the neighborhoods and all the municipalities of our island, which is our obligation", Pérez commented.
Interpretation of the victory
The PP has triumphed in these European elections in Spain, in the autonomous community of the Canary Islands and also in Lanzarote; an important majority that Astrid Pérez has attributed to the "unanimous support of our country, and fundamentally of our island", and to a criticism of "a weak government, without ideas, without initiative, of rudeness and lack of projects in the medium and long term", in reference to the socialist work in the Executive.
In addition, she considered that in these elections there has been "a punishment to the PSOE in its way of making government because every time the socialists govern they leave the country in an important economic and social crisis." Something that, in Pérez's opinion, can be transferred to Lanzarote where, with these elections, "ineffectiveness, paralysis and political apathy" have been punished.
Effects of Operation "Unión" at the polls
"I have no idea and I cannot venture to say whether we have won these European elections because of Operation `Unión´ or why, because I don't know. But I believe that when operations of this type occur, what tends to happen is not to vote, but this has not been the case in Lanzarote, where more citizens voted in 2009 than in 2004", said the president of the PP in Lanzarote.
And it is that, although last week, the political glances were more pending of government pacts in the institutions or of cessations of public charges, the participation in the polls has increased. "It was said that with Operation "Unión" nobody was going to vote, when the truth is that we have voted almost 20 percent more people in 2009 than in 2004", added Pérez.
