They need and deserve more. Above all, they need a government that is up to the circumstances and the socio-economic difficulties that we are experiencing. A government with solvency, that is clear about what is important and what is urgent, that has the capacity to face and lead once and for all the subjects that we have pending as an island and as a society. A government willing to assume the political cost that the decision-making often has, although necessary, are not always well understood in the first term by the majority of citizens.
From a political point of view, I believe that Lanzarote lacks courage and has too much blockage. Empty speeches, non-existent projects, confrontation and demagoguery have occupied a preferential place in the government of the Cabildo for too many years, term after term. During the last decade, those who have always had the upper hand using their majorities, have done and undone according to their own interests. And it is these, the interests of both, nationalists and socialists, and not others, that weigh us down and keep the island's development stagnant. Both waste too much time looking in the rearview mirror; rummaging through their miseries and permanently reveling in how badly the government that preceded them did.
Time and effort are wasted on purely partisan issues that have nothing to do with the problems of the island, with what really worries citizens and with the real needs of the people. And that's how they consume mandates.
In the intervention of conformation of the corporation, in July 2019, I said that we were facing a historic mandate in which errors of the past were going to be corrected and the institution oxygenated, that on the part of the Popular Party we did not want to waste time talking about the past and, I reaffirm myself. Yes. We fulfilled our commitment and if there is something I am proud of, it is the good work that each of my colleagues from the Popular Party did during two years in the government of the Cabildo; in tourism, in economic promotion, employment, transport, in security and emergencies or in public works, the latter under my responsibility.
What is enough? Of course not!. We would have done more if we had governed alone or if we had been the majority group, but it has not been like that and there are many things in which you have to give in in a government of two and in the middle of a pandemic.
Once again we demonstrate that we are up to the circumstances and I sincerely believe that the presidency of the Cabildo has nothing to reproach us for in the good and efficient management of our areas. In fact, many of the government measures that we are seeing in recent months are the culmination of the work we have done. And although we always act with responsibility, seriousness and loyalty, in no case do I expect an exercise of honesty that recognizes these extremes on the part of a presidency that is still more interested in disqualifications and dialectical mudslides than in building bridges and adding efforts, which is precisely the line to follow.
We want and must talk about the future, set a roadmap and close great island pacts in those matters that are of special importance for the island and that should be outside the changes of party that occur in the Island Government. It is essential to reach agreements on matters such as planning, infrastructure, health and social health services, water, renewable energy and heritage.
And we must do that jointly with the town councils because the Cabildo must always be there to lend a hand and not to confront; the Cabildo is there to help and not to block; the
Cabildo is there to provide solutions and not to generate problems, because if something should always prevail, it is the spirit of cooperation with local corporations. And when a municipality feels affected by a problem, what the Island Government has to do is attend to or echo its needs and not use silence or guerrilla warfare as a response to those town councils that are not of the same political sign.
Lanzarote needs it. It needs to move towards modernity and progress, because in the end what we all want is for our children to have two islands in which they are proud to live; a well-cared for environment that can also be enjoyed; islands that are friendly and take care of our elders, islands that offer opportunities for all. Because Lanzarote and La Graciosa need and deserve more.