The PSOE is preparing to govern in the Canary Islands, or at least that is what they claim in the party and expressed the organization secretary in the Canary Islands, Manuel Armas, on his visit to Lanzarote. In fact, after analyzing the surveys carried out by his party, they assure that "before we were prepared to win and now we are prepared to govern."
The socialists are already warming up for the next elections in 2007. Maribel Monzón, secretary of Electoral Action, stated that "in the fourteen months that remain until the elections, the PSOE is in permanent electoral campaign." And precisely to prepare for the elections next year, they have dedicated the days of Friday and last Saturday, in which the heads of electoral action of the seven islands and the representatives of the 7 most important municipalities of the archipelago met.
The work carried out these days focused on the analysis of opinion polls and voting intentions and the sharing of experiences to find strategies that, according to Manuel Armas, allow the party to consolidate its position and increase the difference with respect to other political forces in the Canary Islands.
For Maribel Monzón, one of the primary objectives of the conference was to empower municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants, which represent 50% of the Canarian population and therefore of the electorate that will have to elect its representatives in May of next year.
Manuel Armas presented the three fundamental axes of what he himself defined as "axes of his government program, not his electoral program." Solving the problem of the high unemployment rate in the Canary Islands, which exceeds the national average, dealing with the phenomenon of immigration and ending the lack of quality of healthcare in the archipelago are the fundamental bases of the program, which will not be known in detail until the end of the year, at which time, according to Maribel Monzón, the party will hold a conference to make its program public.
Manuel Fajardo, general secretary of the PSOE in Lanzarote, believes that as of May 2007 we will be "facing a new political cycle", since the current one "is giving its last gasps".
