The president of the PP in Yaiza, Laura Betancort, has made public her outrage with the party, which ten days ago announced the signing of thirty former militants of San Borondón in the municipality, with Juan Monzón at the head, to whom they have offered the first places on the list that they will present in the next elections. "They have kicked me out and I am not going to be where I am not wanted", says Betancort in her writing, in which she denounces that she has suffered "lies", "backstabbing" and even "shouts" from the PP leadership, which she accuses of acting as a "dictatorship".
Betancort, who assumed the presidency of the party's Committee in Yaiza almost a year ago, says that she learned through the press of the agreement reached by Ástrid Pérez with the now former councilor of San Borondón, Juan Monzón. "I asked for an explanation and they responded with a sea of lies, unanswered calls, unanswered messages, refusals, etcetera, keeping the truth covered up," she explains.
"When my party deigned to hold a meeting with me, I discovered that said leader had demanded for his entry into the party the first four places on the list in the next municipal elections. Here they did not think about the team that has been working so hard in recent months but in a team already formed and that comes bounced from another political group and with political signs so far from the project of my party, that comes to 'colonize' the place that corresponds to this group so valid", adds Betancort, who begins her writing remembering how she decided to take the step of assuming the leadership of this committee a year ago and highlighting the work she has done since then.
"First they shout at you and then they crucify you"
In that meeting that she finally managed to hold, Laura Betancort points out that she did not remain silent and exposed "what she thought". "This has been my biggest mistake! In a party you can't disagree because first they shout at you and then they crucify you", she laments. Thus, she points out that in the face of her refusal to "step aside", the party leadership requested a committee to vote "the entry to this group, which appears and disappears according to their particular interests".
As the island leadership of the PP stated ten days ago in a statement, "the proposal to incorporate the new members occurs after being ratified by a large majority of the Board of Directors and the Island Executive Committee as well as with the approval of the majority of the current members of the Local Committee". However, they did not point out anything about the position of the president of that committee.
As she herself explains, during the meeting she took the floor to question that "all the work that had been done in Yaiza" in the last year had not been valued. "I didn't understand if it was a hidden camera or not", she laments, questioning that the Popular Party in Lanzarote "has become a dictatorship, without caring about the people and at the expense of everything and that there are many valid people who are left behind".
For that reason, now she wanted to make it public, also announcing that she is not going to accept the third place that she says she was finally offered on the Yaiza list, since she considers that it is something that has been "imposed on her as crumbs", nor "the positions of the Cabildo or the Parliament". In addition, she points out that the party will find out about this decision through the press, since she has decided to use "the same medium" by which she affirms that all her team and she have "found out about all this".
"The work is not only not rewarded but punished"
"I came to help, to worry about the problems of my municipality, for my neighbors and that my son could grow up in a better place", she begins by remembering, pointing out that when she decided to take this step "the situation of the Popular Party in the south of Lanzarote was at least complicated, without a place to be able to carry out a loyal and constructive opposition, without a team and without means".
Since then, she defends that there has been "a lot of work, press releases, many acts pressing the needs of our fellow citizens, a lot of study", which have led them to be "recognized" and to become "one more actor in southern Lanzarote politics". However, she laments that "all this work surprisingly is not only not rewarded but punished".
"Our responsibility is the people who voted for us and who trust that we will do everything possible to make our island a better place and not fight behind our backs and ideological reconversions so difficult to explain. I have been perplexed to discover that politics is something so different", she explains, defending that we should use the time "to truly worry about the neighbors and not to stab each other in the back, constantly criticize each other and abide by orders only because with it I continue to maintain my position and without being able to disagree even if you think differently".
