The current councilor of the Cabildo of Podemos, Jorge Peñas, has officially presented his candidacy to head the list for the next elections in May 2023. The purple formation has already started the primary process and until October 12 is the deadline for individual pre-registration.
"I take a step forward, and I make official my candidacy to head the list to the Cabildo of Lanzarote, with confidence in the good people who have always been at the foot of the canyon on our island, and that I am sure will continue to be in these difficult times," says Peñas. "Podemos is nobody without its people, the one that is always there, the one that travels our territory, putting up posters, at information tables and fighting at close range," he adds.
Jorge Peñas explains that he presents "as endorsement" his work "both in the party and in the institutions", his "experience as a lawyer for more than 20 years" and his "career as advisor to his colleague Nicolás Saavedra, Councilor for Social Services of the City Council of Tías, facing together with the colleagues of the Government of the Canary Islands the hardest part of the pandemic, and the work in the progressive pact of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, which is marking a new course and improving the living conditions of ordinary and working people, women, young people and those belonging to groups at risk of exclusion such as LGTBI+ people."
However, the councilor clarifies that "if he is not elected", he will support "without cracks the candidate who has the support of the colleagues"; and that if supported, he will integrate "the rest of the candidacies into the working group, to avoid ruptures and grudges, all rowing in the same direction."
"There is a new island model, and we have shown that another way of doing politics is possible, and in a new mandate in the first island administration we can deepen the transformative policies of social reality, in the defense of decent employment, the right to housing and the environment," concludes the councilor, who was number four on the list in the last elections, and acceded to the Cabildo after the resignation of Nona Perera and after Yurena Corujo, since Podemos obtained two councilors.
