Now that the internal process for the election of the socialist candidate is over, I hope that the time has come for them to worry about Arrecife as well. Arrecife cannot continue to wait for a political organization and its wars, to move forward and get out of the place where they have placed it.
There are barely three months left for an electoral process that, I trust, will change the course of the city in which we live
The people of Arrecife will have the opportunity to choose between the Arrecife of misgovernment and improvisation, the city without a plan or future project, or a City that walks with a firm step towards its future, a future thought out and designed with the sole objective of improving the quality of life of its citizens.
Arrecife must abandon the politics of patches and improvisation and we must know, advised by those who have the knowledge and experience, where we should walk and what are the steps we must take in the different areas to achieve the objective.
We must plan the city urbanistically and approve the tool that will allow us to order it, mark its growth and evolution and get hold of the land for the needs of the population. Public housing and sports, educational or health infrastructures await land and order to be located.
We also need to define the mobility of our city, a mobility that ends the division of the city to which the current system has subjected it. Effective, efficient and reliable public transport that allows our neighborhoods to feel part of the city and that its services are not "those of the center" but municipal services that, distributed throughout the municipality, form the lung of a decentralized administration close to the problems of the people. An Avenue open to traffic and fast and useful radial lines that meet the needs of the residents of Arrecife, betting, YES, on pedestrianization, but a sequenced and orderly pedestrianization with a criterion.
We must work on a friendly city project, projects drafted and with a single direction on the starting line, waiting for the starting gun with the arrival of funding from the higher administrations.
We cannot allow a single euro more to be lost from those that the Cabildo, the Canary Government or any of the ministries or public administrations of any scope allocates to our capital. To be the third Capital of the Canary Islands and to be able to demand as such, we must be clear about our course so that they can help us to travel the necessary road.
Let's work on real citizen participation and give sports, cultural, social and neighborhood groups the capacity to be part, together with the City Council, of the decisions of the City.
Let's create the necessary figures so that they are the ones who make their decisions and facilitate subsidies and collaborations so that they can continue to do such commendable work in our City.
We are part of a unique island in the world, imbued with the essence of our most distinguished artist and the work of each of the people of Lanzarote who, legatees of that heritage, have built the Lanzarote we know today.
Arrecife should not continue to be far from that island aesthetic and "making it pretty" is easy if we all do our part. Let's learn from cities like Bilbao, where they promoted and achieved change when, some decades ago, they started from a situation with more than reasonable similarities to ours.
The internal process of the Organization that since the beginning of democracy has had the privilege of trying, without success, to make the people of Arrecife feel proud of their city has passed (sometimes in the Mayor's Office, others as government partners). Now it is time to make our city models known to the residents.
The people of Arrecife will have to choose in May between continuing with the current model represented by Eva de Anta and the PSOE or the proposal for change and new ideas that Coalición Canaria offers to our neighbors.
And so I would like to end these lines; INVITING EVA DE ANTA to hold a debate, a confrontation of projects, calm and serene, in the medium, place and time that she considers, so that citizens can know the two options and choose in a few months the one that best represents their idea of the future for Arrecife.
Echedey Eugenio
Candidate of Coalición Canaria for Mayor of Arrecife