The Podemos councilor in Tías, Nicolás Saavedra, will be the new non-elected councilor of the purple formation in the Cabildo, assuming the areas held by the dismissed Elena Solís. This has been confirmed by himself on Radio Lanzarote – Onda Cero, pointing out that the decision has already been approved in the assembly, so only his appointment needs to be made official.
Saavedra will take charge of the Departments of Environment, Animal Welfare and Food Sovereignty, which after the dismissal of Solís passed into the hands of Jorge Peñas, with whom he will precisely compete in the primaries to lead the next Podemos list to the Cabildo.
According to Saavedra, the proposal came from “the militancy” and the regional leadership of the party, who asked him to run for those primaries and also to join the Cabildo as a non-elected councilor.
However, he has made it clear that he will not resign from his position as councilor in Tías, where he has governed with the PSOE since the beginning of the mandate. “I made my commitment very clear in the party: I am not going to leave my Councilorship, because I like it and that is what I committed to,” he defended.
Regarding how he will face both positions, he has pointed out that he will have to “organize himself”, so that “some days he can be in the Cabildo” and, “above all, have a team”. In addition, he has pointed out that his intention in the Island Corporation, with the little time left until the elections, is to focus “on four important things”, finishing projects that “Elena Solís started”.
“It is not that his work is undervalued, it is that the work of Tías is valued”
It so happens that in Tías, Nicolás Saavedra also worked from the beginning of the mandate with Jorge Peñas. And it is that until he began to govern in the Cabildo, Peñas was an advisor to his Councilorship. Now, both will also coincide in the Island Corporation, where both aspire to lead the next electoral list of the party.
“When one is committed to something, one cannot refuse what the militancy and your party colleagues ask of you,” says Nicolás Saavedra, who affirms that he does not maintain any “confrontation” with Peñas, but rather “different visions that are had”.
“I believe that is what enriches us democratically. Possibly, in the future we will have to combine both projects. Or time will tell, and the militancy,” he pointed out.
In his case, he believes that his work in the Tías City Council, with the “human team” that has accompanied him, supports him. “It is not that his work is undervalued, far from it. It is that what has been done in Tías is valued,” he says with respect to Peñas.
In addition to combining both positions in what remains of the mandate -as councilor and councilor-, Saavedra is doing “double duty” in the primaries, since he has also applied to lead the Tías list again.
