The other day someone told me that we had to take stock of the first hundred days of Government in the Cabildo. "Have we been here for a hundred days already?" I asked. And I asked it for the simple reason that since I took office I have not stopped for a second, as my government colleagues, of common project, have not stopped, and as the workers of the institution have not stopped because now they do have an assignment and an objective to carry out. We have done so much in so little time that if they told me that a week has passed since we arrived, I would have believed it. Time flies and we have a lot to do. And it flies especially when you work with enthusiasm and take advantage of every minute of a unique opportunity. That's how I took it, as an opportunity that life has given me that I don't plan to waste.
Others, however, seem to have been waiting since day one for the three months that, supposedly, are given grace to all politicians before starting with the firewood. It must have been eternal for them. They were waiting to say, some even to write, the same thing they would have said after the first second of my mandate. Because, unfortunately, the people who are in the opposition in the Cabildo are not there to build, they are there to destroy or to criticize. This is the case of a Socialist Party (PSOE) that does not know where to hide when demonstrating in record time that everything they have not done in four years we have done in these hundred days, plus all the new things that will come as a result of our effort. They dedicate the whole day to criticizing and making absurd excuses about the nonsense that their management has been, a management that has been clearly marked by the PSOE's obsession with my colleague Pedro San Ginés. Look, they could have combined the marking of Pedro with productive work; but no, they spent so much energy on the previous president, surely, that because of the thirst for revenge of some (who seem to have been able to portray and put in their place), they should not have had the strength to do anything that had to do with the general interest of the citizens.
The others, those of the other group, with the exception for the moment of the spokesman of VOX, Óscar Pérez, obsessed with a work of attrition that aims to enthrone the one who is supposed to be the leader of an insularist movement like PIL that intends to change the destiny of Lanzarote's politics of the future.
The truth is that they have Óscar Noda one day yes and another also accusing me of dictator and I don't know how many other things, all because I am making decisions, because I am solving problems. And I am solving the problems that his friend María Dolores Corujo Berriel was unable to solve, among them, the enormous sinkhole they left in Los Hervideros, her absurd refusal to allow cruise tourism in Playa Blanca or the big problem they have in the south with water, with transport and with the sanitation network that does not reach many inhabited areas. But, of course, only for electoral reasons Mr. Noda was not as active and belligerent as now, he preferred not to bother the leaders of the PSOE in the idea that they all had that the numbers were going to be favorable and they were going to be able to extend the Government of misgovernment for another four years. Luckily, the people of Lanzarote put them in their place and did not allow such a thing. Let the leader of the future insularist movement not worry that I am not like them; I will govern with the same outstretched hand as always, I will put all my effort into ensuring that Yaiza has everything it needs and deserves, without sectarianism of any kind, without looking at the political color. I will solve with my government partners the problem of Los Hervideros, water, sanitation, cruises, transport, roads...
I don't care, let them continue with their roadmap. Meanwhile, as we have done in these first hundred days, we will take hidden issues out of the drawers, such as planning, we will solve problems such as the shortage of investments in renewable energies, we will try to ensure that our students are a little less second-class students, we will fix the health problems and put facilities so that people can visit their patients without having to park in the Conchinchina, we will make Arrecife have the port it deserves, that entrepreneurs are not persecuted, that artists find a place and applause beyond the lines marked by those of the politically correct, we will increase scholarships, we will help athletes, we will build new sports facilities, we will fix the ones that are bad, we will put more buses to try to have fewer cars, we will open sincere debates about our load capacity, about the load capacity of La Graciosa, we will listen to the people and we will take into account their opinions, we will not let ourselves be pressured by any business or communication power group... There are so many things that when they tell me that a year has passed since the current mandate I will think that two weeks have passed.
It has been a hundred days of going from surprise to surprise. If I tell you that what we found was a disaster, I am sure they will scold me because I would fall very short in the expression that should be used to describe how this Cabildo was and still is in part. It doesn't matter. We have already changed course, we have straightened the rudder and the ship is sailing at full speed.
To all those who are always with the no in their mouths and to all those who seek more the mess than the progress, let them continue calling me naive if they want, let them look for topics with which to give firewood; I don't care, because whatever they do, I will continue to maintain that illusion with which I presented myself to the position of president of the Cabildo and with which I achieved the majority of the votes in a complex and difficult election day that will be analyzed in justice with the perspective of the years.
Those who follow my trajectory will remember that when the pre-election campaign started I chose the word "illusion" to define my path and that of all those who decided to support me, we even put it on the shirts that some will be using now to clean the dust or to sweat on the stationary bike; illusion mainly to achieve to govern, not to exercise the government in a tyrannical or sectarian way, but to do good. And good is neither more nor less than creating a better society for all, for those of us who have illusion and for those who do not, building a Lanzarote different from the current one, because now I have no doubts since I have all the information. Those who governed us before were more concerned with their personal issues and their vendettas than with the construction of something that is worthy of being remembered and mentioned by future generations.
We all have an engine and we all need some kind of fuel. Mine is this, the illusion. It is not so difficult sometimes life, and politics neither. It is simply about that, about having a goal, about surrounding yourself with a committed team, putting enthusiasm into it, having a clear action plan and starting to walk the day after people give you their trust. That is the key, to do what my father told me so many times when I was a child, not to leave for tomorrow what I could do today. Philosophy that certainly cannot be applied to those we have had in the Cabildo of Lanzarote in the last four years, people who dedicated themselves body and soul to managing the routine and to making it seem that they were working, the same ones who now come to take out a press release of each issue that we are solving. When they get tired, I would like them to call me and decide to offer their time for the common good. I will attend to them and receive them without problem. To all of them. If they want to work for the good of Lanzarote, I have no problem in creating a government of concentration in which those of us who have the baton accept, value and approve the ideas of those who do not have it. I have a feeling that this offer that I launch to them, again, will fall on deaf ears. Some and others have other interests. They are not, surely, those of the people who are not in their political calculations, nor mine. A hundred days? Time passes very quickly and we don't have a second to lose.
