June 26 is approaching. An exciting day for what it can mean for Lanzarote and its inhabitants. Because this Sunday they can take advantage of this second opportunity offered by the selfishness and ineptitude of the state parties, who did not know how to read the results of the polls and who were entrenched in their desire for power. This Sunday, the people of Lanzarote and the residents of the island can vote for the men and women who are going to defend them in truth: for the Coalición Canaria team.
Because we do not have to bow our heads and obey any boss in Madrid, as they will do from Monday. The eight islands that many of them have traveled, encouraged by their desire to appear in the media and their desperation to snatch votes from the hands of citizens, will be forgotten next week. They will drag the Canary Islands to the last place on their list of priorities. Do not doubt it: Canarian deputies and senators from PP, PSOE, Ciudadanos and Unidos Podemos will remain silent in their seats and will do what their leaders in the capital of the Kingdom tell them to do, even if that harms their land.
That will never happen with us, the nationalists. We owe ourselves to our people, to our islands. I do not accept anyone telling me that I have to betray my neighbors. That I have to turn my back on them, as the Canarian populars did with the oil explorations. A whole minister born in this land bowed to external interests and ignored the people with whom he had grown up, his fellow citizens, all the Canarians. He decided that the important thing was the money that the pitch could give. That the complaints and the will of the inhabitants of the islands, especially those of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, were worth nothing.
We will never have that disloyalty with our people. And we have shown it: we have insisted ad nauseam that the Port Authority of Lanzarote be a reality and we have done so before the Government of the Canary Islands, led by our colleague Fernando Clavijo. We have fought because for us our island comes first. Because we are brave. So is our president and that is why he understood our demand: the Government Council of the Canary Islands gave the green light to this port entity.
Believe me, we will have to be very brave and hardworking in this legislature that remains because there are many battles that we must win for the Canary Islands: the improvement of the unfair financing system, with which they take 800 million euros a year from us and that so much damage to our basic services; the reform of the economic aspects of the REF; the rescue of the comprehensive employment plan for the Canary Islands, to help so many families who need it or the protection of the primary sector are just some of the issues that we have to defend in Madrid.
During these two weeks I have held numerous meetings with citizens of all political colors. I want to speak for all of them in the Senate. My goal is to work for the well-being of all, for the well-being of my island, and I do not give up or faint before that mission. I will be brave for Lanzarote.
Marci Acuña, candidate of Coalición Canaria Lanzarote to the Senate
