Elections 2023

Víctor Robayna presents a list "firm to the commitment to work for the main value that Haría has: its inhabitants"

The CC candidate for the northern Town Hall is committed to "recover the well-being and quality of life that the inhabitants of the municipality have lost in the last four years"

April 30 2023 (12:36 WEST)

The Coalición Canaria candidate for Mayor of Haría, Víctor Robayna, stated this Saturday, April 29, that he is "fully convinced that the team that accompanies him in his race towards 28M will make it possible, with their work and dedication, to improve the well-being and quality of life of each of the 5,400 inhabitants of the municipality."

Robayna presented his candidacy at an event held at the El Marinero Sociocultural Center in Punta Mujeres, which was led by the local Secretary of Organization, Pilar González.

Also present were the island secretary of the Lanzarote nationalists and candidate for Parliament for the Lanzarote constituency, Migdalia Machín, and the candidate for the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, as well as the National Organization Secretary, David Toledo, the candidates from Arrecife (Echedey Eugenio), Tías (Amado Vizcaíno) and San Bartolomé (David Rocío), different public and organic positions of CC, affiliates, supporters, and a wide presence of the general public.

Throughout his speech, the nationalist candidate for the northern Consistory insisted "that for his formation the main value of the municipality he represents is the people. In this way, he deployed a whole series of demands and needs in whose response his team is already working."

“We must focus on our elders, improving home care, expanding the number of places in the senior center, having a family respite space, and properly addressing unwanted loneliness in both seniors and young people,” Robaya said, emphasizing that “this loneliness, together with youth suicides, is the great plague to be combated and there we have to go hand in hand with the City Council, Cabildo and Government of the Canary Islands.”

Recovering leisure space for young people, attending to the neediest families and paying special attention to children requires, as the candidate emphasized, "strengthening our social services to be able to detect and solve all problems more quickly, because what is important is our people.”

Likewise, Robayna spoke of the need to "apply policies that generate synergies that allow the creation of employment through, also, education plans, as well as a flexible General Plan that enables, among other aspects, the rehabilitation of protected housing and reflects the needs of a primary sector that is vital for the municipality."

“Haría has 80 percent of its protected landscape, with spaces classified as natural monuments. We are the clear example of what Lanzarote should be, but for the sustenance of this model, mobility and sustainability must be worked on,” he said.

For her part, the candidate for Parliament, Migdalia Machín, after recalling that it has not been an easy mandate for the municipality, valued "the constancy and perseverance of Víctor Robayna who, despite the difficulties, has not only not given up but has become stronger, forming the team that will ensure the future of Haría and its inhabitants from May 28."

“Here what works is the face-to-face policy and we know how to do that very well in Coalición Canaria,” stressed the also island secretary of CC, who added that politics is a long-distance race. “Sprints are worthless. Politics is very beautiful if it is well cared for, and it is not an abstract entity because it is made up of human beings who, in the end, choose their place.”

Likewise, Machín assured that, like the rest of the municipalities, Haría will also have her “and the four parliamentarians that we are going to get”, to "be able to solve entrenched issues such as the project for adapting infrastructures to accessibility, the improvement and maintenance of the Port of Órzola, the recovery of unique landscapes of tuneras Guatiza-Mala, the recovery of the salt flats of Órzola, the sanitation network of Charco del Palo or the expansion of the Haría Health Center", among others.

In his turn, the candidate for the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, wanted to give prominence to two people who, from the first institution, will be vital for all the demands of the municipality of Haría to be met: Marciano Acuña and Aroa Revelo.

The former emphasized his objective of fixing what the current government has destroyed in everything related to Social Welfare and asserted that "Coalición Canaria is the only way for the municipality of Haría and the entire island to move forward."

Revelo, for her part, spoke of all the shortcomings that young people have in the northern municipality and advocated for the creation of sports infrastructures and spaces that respond to their needs.

The last to speak was Oswaldo Betancort, who after placing special emphasis on the fact that Marciano Acuña's return to active politics will be the key to recovering the well-being that many people have lost, assured that "today begins the conquest of the north because the CC project is the future of Haría."

The candidate for the Presidency of the Cabildo spoke of the unresolved problems of Orzola (fishing activity, salt flats...) and of the need for this town to "stop being the garage of La Graciosa”. Betancort also stressed that it is already good that the north of Lanzarote is the gateway to Europe for all the people who arrive by boat. “Here, those responsible continue to look the other way, while we continue to say that a fixed emergency point is needed in the north with an ambulance that responds to the needs of the municipality from minute one,” he said.

In the same way, he demanded the expansion of health infrastructures in the north in view of the population increase that the municipality has experienced, and recalled the existing mobility and connectivity problems.

Finally, Oswaldo Betancort, like his partner Víctor Robayna, emphasized that "the most important work is to give quality of life and wealth to the people of the north and that is the firm commitment of Coalición Canaria."