The New Canaries deputy for Lanzarote and La Graciosa, Yoné Caraballo, will be the new head of the Canarian organization in the parliamentary committees on health and ecological transition.
Both parliamentary committees are presented for the Canarians as "strategic" and "protagonists" of the incoming legislature, given the "importance that health maintains in the network of public services and in the total of the autonomous budgets"; and the "great challenge" presented by climate change, the energy transition and the change of ecological habits and attitudes.
Caraballo wanted to thank his organization for the trust placed in him to be the spokesperson in these two matters, and focuses on the defense of public and universal health as the greatest example of the welfare state of the Canary Islands.
“I assume these tasks with responsibility, but with the confidence that I will not diminish in the staunch defense that I have been making in favor of health
Canarian public health from activism, trade unionism and politics”, comments Caraballo, who highlights the Canarian Health Service as the “jewel in the crown that we must protect and care for”.
For the Lanzarote deputy there are "signs of regression in the improvements gained" in recent years in health matters, since "the pretensions of the new conservative government of CC and PP is to reduce the income of the Autonomous Community to the detriment of investment in public services," he adds.
“As I promised the citizens of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, my first interpellation to the government will be to inform me about the status of the Mala Health Center, which under the 'Non-Law Proposal' approved in the previous legislature mandated the Canarian executive to incorporate a 24-hour Continuous Care Service and a sanitized ambulance in the north of Lanzarote”, says Yoné Caraballo.
“As I promised the citizens of both islands, my first interpellation to the government will be to inform me about the status of the Mala Health Center"
In environmental matters, Caraballo highlights the "importance of continuing with the policies of implementation of renewable energies, the development of planning plans as a strategic element for each island to assume its environmental responsibility, and education in terms of ecological habits and attitudes."
According to Caraballo, “the great challenge of humanity is in the change of energy model, but also in the change in habits and attitudes that have brought us here”, he points out. A task, he assumes, “that appeals to each of us as directly responsible for the Canary Islands that we want to leave to future generations”.
On the other hand, the party leader in Lanzarote also assumes the tasks in the committees of “Regulations” and “Statute of the members of the chamber and petitions”. The latter stands out for the "capacity to invite" members of civil society to speak before Parliament on matters of interest.
With everything, NC in Lanzarote and La Graciosa will begin political activity with two challenges. They highlight, thus, the "deployment of their idea of Island-Home, the supervision of municipal and island governments, and the strengthening of the organization in Arrecife."
“The growth of the organization is unstoppable and this legislature will be that of consolidation in the islands of Lanzarote and La Graciosa”, Caraballo concludes.