Four people from Lanzarote have submitted their candidacies for the Podemos primaries to form the lists for the Parliament of the Canary Islands within different candidacies. The current parliamentarian of the purple formation for Lanzarote, María del Río, aspires to revalidate her position and has presented herself together with Noemí Santana's team, as has Luz Mejías, also from Lanzarote. For his part, Erasmo Juan Delgado and Antonio Bravo are running on the alternative list headed by María del Carmen Martín and linked to Meri Pita.
"I was hesitant because I also thought that we have to give way to more people and that in politics we don't have to be there for a long time or for life, but the other colleagues insisted a lot on me continuing, on closing the cycle of four more years, and there we are, available to continue, with enthusiasm and with a very interesting team", said Del Río, who is running to be part of the list behind Noemí Santana and ahead of the other Lanzarote native who has joined that candidacy, Luz Mejías, although it is the registered members who will decide both the head of the list and the order in which the people who accompany them run.
"She is another colleague from the Feminism Circle, wonderful, who I love, and who I hope will be our next candidate", said the current Podemos parliamentarian for Lanzarote, who assures that she would have "liked" Luz Mejías to be ahead of her on the list. "Because I think she can do a wonderful job, but well, we are going to be together and we are going to work", she added.
In the presentation of her candidacy, Luz Mejías points out that her motivation is "to accompany and promote the colleagues, in an exciting and necessary project for Europe, Spain, the Canary Islands, Lanzarote and Arrecife... from a green, global, humanitarian, unifying and integrating perspective, focused on facing the general and local problems and challenges, from climate change, food sovereignty and energy autonomy, the development of clean energies".
Erasmo Delgado and Antonio Bravo
"Until now I have fought in the bases. Now I put myself at the service of the party and my colleagues", says Erasmo Delgado, who is running on the alternative list presented by María del Carmen Martín. According to the Podemos website, Delgado has a degree in Political Science and Sociology and has worked as a professor, although he is currently retired.
Finally, Antonio Bravo, who is a founding member of the Podemos Lanzarote Sur-Tías Circle, says that he is "eager to contribute" his grain of sand "to give the battle and that once and for all the same people stop having the upper hand".
Nona Perera aspires to lead the list to the Cabildo
Regarding the primaries to the Cabildo, Nona Perera has finally presented her candidacy to lead the list of the purple formation, so she will compete with Carlos Meca, current Podemos councilor in the Cabildo, to lead it.
"I am running in the Podemos primaries for the Cabildo of Lanzarote with the purpose of laying the foundations that allow us to converge with other parties, associations and like-minded citizens of the island, to contribute to leading the access to the presidency of the island corporation, among other purposes", says the former head of Heritage of the Cabildo, who left that position when she was appointed director of the archaeological museum that Pedro San Ginés intended to open in the house that the Cabildo acquired in Fajardo Street, until she was later dismissed.
Currently, Nona Perera is a member of the regional Executive of the purple formation and affirms that she understands "the union of joint sensitivities is necessary in order to improve life on the island and of it in its broadest sense".
"I value diversity and plurality as enriching elements of public life and current politics", indicates Perera, who proposes "an alternative project to the governments that have held power until now, placing the general interest above partisan and individual interests with bodies that promote citizen participation that in turn promote political debate". "I am working on a project that radiates hope and brings illusion to the people of the island, especially to those who have never had the possibility to participate and be heard", she concludes.
Carlos Meca and his endorsement of three years of work
As for Carlos Meca, he already defended on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero that he was presenting his candidacy with the endorsement of three years of work, in which he considers that "an opposition has been made as never before in the Cabildo".
"In these years of opposition in the Cabildo, intense work has been done uncovering the misgovernment of Coalición Canaria. We have denounced the obscure awarding of the contract for the management of water to Canal de Isabel II, the weaknesses in social matters, the mismanagement, linked to cronyism and corruption, of the Tourist Centers, the gaps in the surveillance of the historical and natural heritage of the island, passing through the deficiencies denounced (and many of them already corrected thanks to our work of supervision) in the contracting of various services", he points out.
Meca also highlights that "exciting projects such as the Timanfaya aquifer" have been put "on the table", through which he considers that it has been "demonstrated that much can be done from the opposition". "But above all, much can be done from the government only if there is will and an honest and decent management of public resources. It is time for the citizens of Lanzarote to be proud of their rulers, and that means demonstrating that in addition to making a serious and implacable opposition, we also know how to govern better than them", he indicates.
Candidates to be part of the Cabildo list
As for the other two current Podemos councilors in the Cabildo, Griselda Martínez and Pablo Ramírez, they aspire again to be part of the list of the purple formation to the institution together with Carlos Meca. And it is that, in the party's primaries, in addition to voting for the head of the list, the order of the people who will form it will also be decided. Nona Perera, in addition to aspiring to lead the list, has also presented her candidacy to be part of the list body in case of not winning the primaries.
In addition to them, Juan José Cuadrado Del Río, Jorge González Fernández, Francisco José Galdos Rossi, Roque Mejias Barroso, Jose Luis Garcia Gonzalez, Mercedes Obiol Chelvi, Mara Benitez Afonso, Mª Angeles Guisado Moreno, Maria Vicenta Hernandez Jorge, Yurena Corujo Martin, José Luis Asencio García, Teresa Delgado Sopo and Amparo Dolores Perdomo Feo have also been presented.
