The first deputy mayor of Tías, Mame Fernández, spoke this Friday on Radio Lanzarote - Onda Cero after the statement issued this Thursday in which he apologized to the citizens and his colleagues at the City Council. The also councilor of Tourism, Beaches and Gardens, Roads and Works, as well as Agriculture has been out of the public spotlight for two years due to a health problem, but assures that he has continued working from home.
Mame Fernández has been dedicated to active politics as a councilor of Tías for between 10 and 12 years, but in the last two he has had to step away from face-to-face work. "Beyond the fact that he was not present, he has been teleworking, "it has not stopped being done because I still had signatures and revisions of reports and proposals from government colleagues."
"I don't want to be a victim of anything because there are many people who suffer from diseases and well, they don't have to apologize, but being a public figure, I think it's appropriate," he said during his intervention in the radio program. Fernández, who attended the plenary session of the last budgets, reveals that the decision to step aside from political life is part of his recovery process. "Maybe life is long for that reason," he said.
"In the end, the task has not stopped being done, the one who has been harmed in this situation is oneself who cannot put a start or end date on diseases," he confessed in the morning show Buenos días, Lanzarote.
To the criticisms received by the opposition councilor Kiko Aparicio (PP), Mame Fernández responded that "many of Aparicio's list colleagues have not been present in the mandate either, although they are in the opposition, they have to be in opposition." In this sense, he called Aparicio a "political face" and stressed that as an "advisor in Arrecife he charges the residents of the municipality and dedicates himself to pretending to work in Tías, which is not much work either. I refer to the evidence."
Fernández has pointed to the internal conflicts of the Popular Party as one of the reasons why the opposition could have been "lost." "There are people who only have the clothes of people, there are no more qualifiers for this character who does not inform himself or wants to inform himself about a health issue before a professional or political issue. There are people who can sell their mother to get a vote."
In this sense, he did not want to point to the entire political formation: "There are very valid people in the Popular Party and very valid people in other lists, but when one says something, one owns their words," he stressed.
Achievements in the mandate
Among the achievements highlighted by Fernández in the mandate, he points out that "before there was a continuous line and now there is a roundabout where they were in a government for another eight years and were not able to do anything but go to take the photo," he reproached.
"After so many years, the residents were satisfied and that roundabout was built that facilitates the left turn, remember that the continuous line did not allow the left turn due to political ideology or because there was a continuous line and the residents who lived south of Macher could not turn, but had to go to the Puerto Calero roundabout or to the supermarket roundabout and that generates gasoline, tire wear and now they can get closer to make that turn," he recalls as one of the advances of the legislature.
He also added the repairs to the floor and ceiling "of the Tías Municipal Pavilion, which had been built for many years precisely by Pepe Juan's government in his day, the floor that was very deteriorated and the ceiling were changed in this mandate. What a coincidence that in eight years of the government of the Popular Party with Kiko as Councilor for Sports he was not able to change that floor and that ceiling that got wet because there were leaks and the floor was damaged." Fernández also highlights the recovery of the Hospitality School: "Something that was dismantled has been put into operation."
"I want the government that is in Tías to continue, that I think has done well with Jose Juan Cruz and with Nicolás Saavedra as partners. I insist that the voters are the ones who have a wide range of options there and but if they ask me my opinion I prefer that pact in the Socialist Party with Unidas Sí Podemos to continue."
"It has been an honor to represent the municipality of Tías," he said goodbye.
