Unidas Sí Podemos presents for the first time a candidacy to the City Council of Haría. The candidate will be Yoya Villaseñor, a renowned activist of the feminist movement of Lanzarote. This was announced by the political formation in a statement.
The left-wing confluence that brings together Podemos, Izquierda Unida and Sí Se Puede affirms that this will be "a further step in its municipal implementation." The candidate, a resident of the town of Haría, has a "long associative and trade union experience" in the Lanzarote Vendors Platform, from which she defended the rights of street vendors in the island's markets.
“Haría needs to manage, without political debts, the shelved issues, those carried out halfway and the forgotten issues,” says the mayoral candidate. “There is much to be done in the municipality, such as improving social welfare resources, creating a true clean point, significantly increasing the Local Police staff, a municipal feminist agenda, dynamization spaces for young people with specialized personnel, quarterly neighborhood assemblies to make decisions such as the possible pedestrianization of Punta Mujeres, the future of La Garita beach or El Bosquecillo," Yoya Villaseñor listed as strengths of the Unidas Sí Podemos proposal in Haría.
The candidate will be accompanied by Manuel Reine, number two on the list. Reine, also a resident of the town of Haría, is an environmental monitor, martial arts teacher and passionate about the history and cultural and natural heritage of the municipality. “It is a responsibility and an honor to be able to offer an ecological voting option committed to the territory in the municipality most linked to the figure and work of César Manrique,” said the candidate.
One of the "most attractive" proposals presented by the team led by Yoya Villaseñor is "the creation of a window for procedures, where the neighbors overcome the digital divide and carry out their procedures from the City Council with a digital signature, and that also methodically informs of all state, island and municipal aid."
To solve the escalating prices of housing rentals, Villaseñor and her team propose the creation of a municipal intermediation office for housing rentals, “so that the landlord feels safe and more homes come onto the market.”
Regarding the care of our coastline and the need for an awareness campaign to make correct use of the containers, Mely Cabrera, shop assistant, member of the list at number three and resident of the town of Punta Mujeres, stated. “At specific times, weekends and holidays, the population on the coast doubles, garbage piles up in the containers, overflows and reaches our sea," she said.
The number four on the list is occupied by Mario Alberto Betancort, a young man from the town of Haría, involved with renewable energies and with the aim of making Haría the Canary reference in the responsible use of solar panels, and also very concerned about the situation of the palm grove.
For him, "it is very important that there is a process of installing renewable energies in all municipal dependencies, schools and health centers, to comply with the ecological transition"
For Unidas Sí Podemos it is of utmost importance that the northern municipality leaves the situation of “instability and politicking” that it has been suffering for years and begins an exciting stage of progress in social rights, employment and improvements in the connectivity and accessibility of all the towns in the municipality and thus “fill all corners of the north of the island with life and illusion.”