Olivia Duque, was surrounded last Thursday, April 27, by the “talent and predisposition for public service of the team with which she faces the challenge of being the first female mayor in the municipality's history,” the party reports.
“I will fight like a wildcat to get what we deserve as the most extensive and second most populated municipality in Lanzarote,” she told the hundreds of people who gathered at the Los Valles teleclub.
In an event attended by Migdalia Machín, Oswaldo Betancort, among others. Duque “recalled her 12 years as a councilor in different municipal areas,” to make it clear that after “all this accumulated experience, the time has come to stop watching the bullfight from the sidelines.”
The candidate strengthened her message of “continuing to move forward” from a governance with a feminine approach, because “as a woman, I know how to organize and be practical in what I consider my home: Teguise.”
Colleagues such as Toni Callero, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Alicia Páez, and Oswaldo Betancort highlighted “her ability to work, her knowledge of the City Council, her empathy, and her closeness to everyone's problems.”
Regarding the future, she emphasized that “I want to turn what we already have into true meeting points, decentralize leisure and culture so that it reaches every corner of the municipality, and help the socialization of our neighbors, increasing their sense of belonging to Teguise,” she asserted.
Duque described a municipality of the future “with proud and happy residents,” and that is why she emphasized that “I will not give up on the construction of the Tahíche nursing home, the new Costa Teguise school, the pipeline and sanitation of La Graciosa, or the development of the 6 plots of land for social housing that we have made available to the Government of the Canary Islands without, for now, having a single euro for it.”
The candidate made it clear that “I will not abandon ship at the first sign of trouble, nor will I submit to my bosses for partisan interest as others do.” Furthermore, “I will not help Teguise's money go to other municipalities for political gain,” she points out. “I will remain loyal to my people and my values: honesty, work well done, and listening,” she anticipates.
For her part, Migdalia Machín expressed “her desire that Duque's example serve so that many other women in the party who, for various reasons, have not yet found the moment to take that step forward to be on the front line, do so.”
“Olivia has created a strong and powerful team, has increased the number of female colleagues on her list, and has gained the support of her male colleagues,” she emphasized, adding that this support should also be reflected in the Cabildo and the Parliament of the Canary Islands, “so that we are not tied hand and foot when it comes to responding to issues as important for Teguise as the sanitation of Tahíche, the Special Plan for the Historic Site of La Villa de Teguise, or the Management and Use Master Plan of the Chinijo Archipelago, among others.”
“We are going to make history because she will be the first woman at the head of the Teguise City Council"
Also, Oswaldo Betancort, affirmed that Duque “has a vocation for service, believes in the model of citizen participation, of going to all the towns to listen in order to later project,” he said. Thus, he stressed that “we are going to make history because she will be the first woman at the head of the Teguise City Council.”
