The Island Committee of the PSOE of Lanzarote has unanimously approved the management of the Island Executive Committee in a session held this Thursday at the Sociocultural Center of Haría.
The event began with the intervention of the mayor of Haría, Alfredo Villalba, who thanked the island leadership for choosing Haría to hold the Island Committee because "it constitutes an opportunity since the day-to-day sometimes does not allow us moments like this, in which to share analysis and impressions."
After Villalba, it was the turn of Celestino Socas and José Juan Cruz, manager and secretary of Organization, respectively, who reported on the economic and organizational management of the Island Group of the PSOE of Lanzarote throughout the year that is now ending.
For her part, the island secretary of the PSOE of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, began her speech by recalling that the party reached this election year after a hard and intense period, vindicating the enormous work carried out by the Socialist Party in moments of unprecedented harshness, such as the covid-19 pandemic and the crisis unleashed by the war in Ukraine.
"I remember these antecedents not as an excuse, but as a reason for pride. The Socialist Party, at the moment when people needed us the most, rose to the occasion and gave its best to protect the weakest, to leave no one behind, so that the crisis would not be paid for by the usual people," explained Corujo, insisting that "we arrived in 2023 knowing that despite the difficulties, nothing could be reproached to us and the results we obtained clearly demonstrated the satisfaction and recognition of our voters."
Corujo insisted on the idea that the Popular Party and its media have normalized the pact with VOX and, however, try to continuously delegitimize the pacts of the PSOE and warned that "we have nothing to be ashamed of regarding our agreements because our agreements are beneficial for the citizens and we have demonstrated this during these years of progressive government."
"Will Europe be discussed in the campaign for the European elections? No. The amnesty, the concessions to Catalonia and ETA will be discussed. Will Galicia or Euskadi be discussed in the campaign for their regional elections? No. The amnesty, the concessions to Catalonia and ETA will be discussed," Corujo asked, warning that "what will not be discussed is that we continue to advance in the normalization of the situation in Catalonia, putting out the fires lit by the irresponsibility of the Popular Party and that in Euskadi the guns and bombs were silenced to begin speaking in parliaments, after the defeat of ETA thanks to José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the socialist party."
The Island Secretary ended with a call to mobilization for the European Elections next June: «We have to win because Europe needs us, because we are a key country when it comes to preventing the extreme right and the extreme right from taking over Europe. We cannot allow Meloni, Orban or Le Pen to decide the future of the European Union. We cannot allow social rights and personal freedoms to recede at the rate set by the heirs of fascism in complicity with the neo-Nazis».
The management of the Socialist Group in the Island Council
For her part, the spokesperson for the Socialist Group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Ariagona González, appeared before the Island Committee to report on the management of the Group throughout these months.
González explained that national issues have conditioned the presence in the media, especially after the general elections, due to the extreme virulence with which the Popular Party and VOX have attacked the policy of pacts of the Socialist Party.
"Despite these difficulties, we have managed to ensure that local politics occupy their place, managing to convey to the citizens that Oswaldo Betancort has no word, no projects and bows down to the power of Clavijo, accepting an unbearable discrimination in the budgets of the Autonomous Community and voting against the fuel bonus that was granted to La Gomera, El Hierro and La Palma."
The socialist spokesperson concluded by recalling that "we have made an important effort to vindicate the role of the PSOE, led by Loli Corujo, during the previous term, recalling that each work, each project, each government action that has been launched throughout these months is part of the inheritance received that they not only do not appreciate but criticize."
