The People's Party candidate for the Senate, Jeziel Martín, defends the need to bring the Senate closer to the population of the islands through the opening of "an office to which citizens can turn when they have a problem and need help or the intermediation of their senator."
Jeziel Martín assures that "the particularities of Lanzarote and La Graciosa must return to the Senate and Madrid also has to be closer to the people of Lanzarote and Graciosa and this is my objective, together with institutional respect and inter-administrative cooperation that I believe should always exist between the senator and public corporations."
In this line of commitments to citizens and their public representatives, Jeziel Martín has announced his intention to appear once a year before the plenary session of the Cabildo, the highest island government body, as the previous senator of the Popular Party already did. "I think it was a very good initiative because it brings transparency to our work and also reinforces the collaboration between administrations that should prevail over any partisan issue," he said.
"Work to obtain from the Central Government the aid that Lanzarote needs in the major problems it suffers."
Likewise, the PP candidate for the Senate has announced that he will hold "periodic meetings with the government groups of the Cabildo and the seven Town Halls in order to work continuously, closely and in a coordinated manner to obtain from the Central Government the aid that Lanzarote needs in the major problems that the island suffers."
Martín wants to recover in this way "the authentic territorial defense role" of our island that a senator has, something that unfortunately "has not happened in recent years." "I conceive politics as a permanent public service to citizens and I want citizens to know that on the days that I don't have to be in Madrid they will have no problem meeting with me because here they will have a senator who will be at their service for everything that can help them," he said.
"Being a senator is not just going to committees and plenary sessions, which it is also, but it has a service to the citizen that I am going to reinforce," he adds. "During these four years the role of the senator has been completely diluted to the point that we have not seen or heard him in important issues or specific problems that affect us as a territory," he concludes.