-It seems that the PP is going through bad times in Lanzarote.
-The PP is a serious party, made up of many people who are working and in that line are the people of PP.
-But not all, because your colleague and friend Alejandro Díaz, former island president of the party, said something different.
-Do you think Alejandro Díaz is not up to the task?
-No, no.
-To work, I think so.
-We are not saying that he is not working, but that he described a panorama that is not at all encouraging.
-I think that all of us who are in the PP are up to the task of working...
-Does the party in Lanzarote have a solution?
-Of course it does, of course it has a solution. The PP is a party with many members, with a project and a solid party and well, perhaps as recently happened to CC that has been with some problems, to the PSOE that at the national level some say one thing and others say other different things, well all parties have to go through the most difficult moments and we are taking it with quite composure, calm and tranquility. Things will be fixed. We continue working, this afternoon we are going to meet the councilors of the Arrecife City Council with members of the local committee of Arrecife to discuss the issue of the PEPA. We have more or less finalized the allegations.
-Have there not been many resignations or have positions been made available to the party?
-No, no one has left the PP. Last week, as you know, there have been some people who have resigned from their positions of trust, but they are all in the PP working, trying to solve the party's problems.
-Alejandro Díaz stated in an interview with this same media that Soria first wanted to regain his trust and then deceived him, who deceives whom from your point of view?
-(Laughs). No one has deceived me, and even less José Manuel Soria. Of course, he has not deceived me at all. I think he is a good president of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, with him we were the first force in Gran Canaria, there is an absolute majority in the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and as such the other parties do not see it well, that is why he often receives those criticisms.
-However, they say he is a bit 'dictator'.
-You know that talking about dictators are tantrums from other parties. When people cannot be defeated at the polls, they are accused of those nonsense. I think we are a serious party in which, in addition to José Manuel Soria, there are many more people working and anyone who wants to work and has interest and desire has a place in the PP. Those who want to dedicate themselves to other things, will get entangled in other things. As you see, every time you ask me, I am worrying about what worries us. Now working on the PEPA, also worried about the General Plan of Arrecife, the basic adaptation, to see what happens with those issues; in the Cabildo we are presenting our motions... The other day the Inalsa councilor gave us all the planning of works that are needed to solve the water problem of the island of Lanzarote, although I have already been talking to him because we believe that in addition to making known all the works that are necessary, we must try to temporalize and prioritize them, that is, which works are more important and which ones should be started.
-Anyway, when you want to take an administrative action, you have to have a party behind you that is healthy.
-In the PP there are many people who are working and many people who are worrying...
-And many people who do nothing but criticize. Does that bother you?
-It doesn't bother me at all, I know what responsibility I have and I continue working in my same lines.
-Has anyone offered to replace you?
-Well, great, but if in my party there is to replace me not only one, there are at least six or seven.
-Why are you talking about one?
-Because you say that someone has offered...
-No, that if someone has offered.
-I understood that someone had offered. I tell you that in my party to replace me there is not only one person, there are six, seven, eight or ten people.
-Valid?
-Valid and prepared, men and women, to take over the party.
-Do you think this is the right time to be pulling everyone's 'hair' when elections are held in a year and a half?
-Well, things will calm down little by little.
-However, what seems to be going well is the Cabildo. What do you say about the Social Action Plan presented to the Minister of Economy and Finance, José Carlos Mauricio, a job well done, right?
-The Social Action Plan? But well, I can't believe you're valuing it positively.
-Is it not well done?
-Of course it is well done. That is, now they come to present us with a Social Action Plan of works that correspond to us by right to the population of Lanzarote, which they already had budgeted in other projects such as the issues of education in the South Plan... and they come to offer it to us as a great thing. If the Government of the Canary Islands is obliged to educate children if the child population increases by 10 or 20,000 children. What cannot be is that Lanzarote has the highest ratios of any island, is that we do not have to be queuing in the clinics as we do... The health is bad throughout the Canary Islands but in Lanzarote worse. You cannot come now with those works that correspond to us by right to the island of Lanzarote. Man, let the councilors of CC say that everything is very beautiful because it is their party who is doing it, but that the president of the Cabildo and the mayor of Arrecife, who are not from CC but from APL, are now saying that it is so well done. It seems that they are bringing us crumbs.
-Are 120 million euros crumbs?
-But that is works that had to have come. If you have children here and schools are needed, you are obliged to make the schools and health centers. Now it presents it to us as an action plan, as a will of José Carlos Mauricio to come and give us all those millions, as if they give us alms or a subsidy to Lanzarote when it corresponds to us by right. And the worst thing is that most of those works were budgeted in other plans. And you know what happens is that also in Arrecife basic problems that we continue to have such as sanitation, sidewalks or lighting, to see when.
-That is within the Arrecife-Port-City project.
-Do you think that the PEPA and the PUPA are going to fix the sanitation and put the sidewalks and lighting in the neighborhoods? No, what I'm talking about is something else. The PEPA is the entire commercial area, they want a little influence for some areas around the Charco, but the neighborhoods do not mention anything about the port. Maybe we could include that in the PEPA also take into account as an area of influence the rest of the city of Arrecife and not only some pieces.
-So you also oppose the PEPA?
-In the first place, how is the PEPA going to be approved if it is based on an illegal agreement. That is, it is based on the approval of the basic adaptation. But what happens with the basic adaptation, has not the councilor Nuria Cabrera met with the COTMACT because in the basic adaptation there are a hundred and something errors.
-That they are correcting.
-Well, then until the basic adaptation is corrected. In addition, you know that the agreement that there is also in the commission is that what was going to be done is to adapt what comes in the Plan of 97 to the current regulations. There does not have to be a change of use. And for the PEPA to be valid there has to be a change of use.
