The headquarters of Coalición Canaria Lanzarote hosted this Wednesday the presentation of the nationalist formation's program for the Cabildo of Lanzarote and La Graciosa: "a project designed to recover the lost illusion and transmit enthusiasm to all the people who reside in the municipalities that make up both islands after four years of hiatus and lack of a plan with defined goals," said Oswaldo Betancort, candidate for the Presidency of the First Island Institution.
Accompanied by a "committed team of women and men", represented at the table by Jesús Machín, Ascensión Toledo, Marciano Acuña and Alicia Páez, Betancort outlined "the main lines that make up the Coalición Canaria plan; a cover letter based on illusion and total and unavoidable commitment to make tangible and measurable proposals, with their deadlines, budgets and guarantees," they say.
"We want to recover a policy of faits accomplis, because during this last term everything has been said, but nothing has been done," said Betancort, guaranteeing that Lanzarote and La Graciosa will recover from June "the dignity of the highest island institution and the society it represents" because a "truly empathetic and inclusive social policy will finally be implemented, with absolute institutional support for all sectors, without exception," they add.
"Next May 28 begins the common challenge of governing for all people, without sectarianism, and that is why we are inviting the population to project our future together, and it will be all the citizens of Lanzarote and La Graciosa who will demand that the objectives be met and will legitimize the capacity of Coalición Canaria to direct and materialize them," he makes clear.
Thus, he stated that the first thing will be "to establish order and common sense in social and care policies and build the long-awaited Lanzarote Senior Residence", as well as "demand a Health and Public Health at the level of the third island of the Canary Islands, with the radiotherapy bunker, the hemodynamics unit and more investment from the Government of the Canary Islands in health infrastructure and services," he includes.
Another priority issue is "to take seriously the need for a transport and mobility plan and an Island Housing Plan, because right now the people here have nowhere to live, for which agreements will be reached with the town councils to enable land, in addition to promoting public-private agreements, where the Cabildo will act as an intermediary."
Also the primary sector "is part of a long list of dereliction of duties of the Socialist Party that has rushed so much that it only had to throw millions in subsidies at the last minute to cover up the inability to manage," Betancort has stressed.
Similarly, he recalled that "land management and cooperation plans will be fundamental to design the island we want, approving the bases of socio-economic development of the island of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, such as the Island Plan, the Special Plan of La Geria, the Governing Plan for Use and Management of the Chinijo Archipelago and the Plan of the Natural Park of Los Volcanes," he confirms. Among his programmatic lines, the candidate pointed out "the need to modernize the public administration, adapting it to the 21st century and making it accessible to all people, key to recovering a Cabildo that is functional and inclusive."
"We will bet on it with a new councilorship transversal to all: the Councilorship of real inclusion, and as a first gesture with groups and people with intellectual disabilities, today we also present our electoral program in "easy reading" to bring our project closer to all those who are not asking for accessible elections and politics," he emphasizes.
In this line, he expressed his confidence that with this format "our proposals will be easier to understand for all of them, and for that our partner Marciano Acuña will have the opportunity tomorrow to participate in the initiative of Plena Inclusión that, with its campaign "My vote counts", "will give us the opportunity to know the demands and feelings of a part of society that demands attention, visibility and rights," he makes clear.
In his turn, Marciano Acuña, announced that "I will be in charge of a very important area that has not been fairly treated, not only unblocking the Tahíche Senior Residence, but implementing a new model of care based on closeness, empathy and support to the third sector, and that model will involve recovering the social agreement with entities of public utility."
Jesús Machín Tavío also spoke, saying that "our proposal for tourism, industry, commerce and crafts involves promoting sustainable growth and development that always benefits the people of Conejera and Graciosa."
Machín also spoke of the "need for more education, training and employment so that "we are not forced to go abroad and that our culture, our identity and our sport are present in all social strata."
For all this, he insisted that "we will be demanding with the Government of the Canary Islands to promote projects that have not been able to materialize in education in the Island and in housing for our students who have to go to Gran Canaria or Tenerife."
Finally, among the many proposals, Machín highlighted "the need to launch a child-youth plan to take care of mental health from schools."
Alicia Páez spoke as a representative of La Graciosa and stated "she is proud to be part of the list as a Graciosa native, and I hope that now yes, work will be done from the highest institution to unblock all the problems that have been transferred without any response from the Canary Islands or the island president."
The last to speak was Ascensión Toledo, who spoke of "the special attention to our elders after a hard time in which they have lost many loved ones." In this way, the Cabildo "will have an area of attention to the elderly with an island dynamization plan," she concludes.
