Nicolás Saavedra, current councilor in the Tías City Council, has presented himself to the primaries to head the lists to the Cabildo and the southern city council for Podemos. In this way, he will compete with his colleague and former advisor Jorge Peñas in the primaries to the island Institution.
Through social networks, Saavedra has explained the reasons that have led him to run again to head the list of the purple formation to the Consistory. "During these three years and a little in the day-to-day of the Tías City Council in charge of social welfare, equality, citizen participation and other management areas that I have the responsibility to lead, I have learned many lessons. If I had to keep one, without much doubt it would be the importance of teamwork and generosity. Without teams there are no results, there is no progress. And without generosity, teams don't work. At least not the democratic and collaborative teams useful for social progress," he says.
Nicolás adds that "thanks to the teams we have been moving forward this complicated legislature. We created a food bank from scratch that helped the families of Tías during the hardest part of the pandemic, we launched a collaborative project around a community and ecological garden, we gave a new approach to citizen participation through Conecta Tías, we became a benchmark for feminism with the first Violet Point on the island..."
In short, Saavedra adds "when everything stopped, we had to not stop for anything in the world, because as my admired Pepe Mújica said, when "the chips are down, everyone remembers the public". And the public had to be up to the task and that's what we tried." But although we didn't stop, we couldn't do everything we would have liked and many lines of the project we had for Tías remained pending. Therefore, we have to try again, as a team, always close to our neighbors, with generosity and with infinite responsibility."
Saavedra is also running to lead the Cabildo, arguing that "we are in an extraordinary one, full of challenges that affect the entire island. The island plan, the productive model, the ecological and demographic limits, inflation... Sometimes, the municipal institutions, closer and more decisive, find themselves facing walls that they cannot overcome because their powers are limited."
"I think that island politics needs a change that the Cabildo must lead. A more human policy, in contact with the neighbors (who are who we work for). I have a long-term island project inspired by the future I want for the people who work and live in Lanzarote and it is time to materialize it," he adds.
