By Pedro M. San Ginés Gutiérrez
Without setting a precedent, I am going to dedicate a few more minutes than it deserves to the main party of a disoriented island council opposition that has been missing the mark for too long and erring hopelessly again and again...
Without setting a precedent, I am going to dedicate a few more minutes than it deserves to the main party of a disoriented island council opposition that has been missing the mark for too long and erring hopelessly again and again.
I am told that the PP is handling an opinion poll that, despite having paid for it, does not leave them in a very good position - contrary to what they would like for the Government group - and that is why, for some time now, they have sounded the alarm and intensified their personal attacks on the most visible head of said group, that is, the Presidency. And they have collaborators from many fronts in their strategy, including a residual and enemy sector of my own party, to start by sweeping the house and not where the rest of my political adversaries are, because as Churchill said: the enemies are inside and the adversaries in front.
Of course, when arguments are forced just because, because it's their turn and that's it, blunders follow one after another and people, who are not stupid, perceive it. But from time to time it is convenient to portray them and continue working.
Well, the umpteenth, which is not the last of the PP's slip-ups, comes about because of their latest note in which they state that in other areas of the Cabildo there is more or less transparency, but the darkest obscurantism of the deepest of Ali Baba's caves is the one that reigns in the "areas directly managed by the president". Tremendous, isn't it?
But look where, to illustrate their devastating criticism of me, not of the management of the three areas they put as an example of my direct management, it turns out that I only do it directly in one of them, and it is very easy to understand why their impotence leads them to one mistake after another.
The first of the projects managed obscurely and directly by me, according to the PP, is "Saborea Lanzarote", actually managed by the area of Economic Promotion that is directed by the independent in the ranks of CC, Francisco Fabelo. And it is that they cannot bear the resounding success that it means for the island that, periodically, thousands of citizens join an initiative that has ample support from producers, restaurateurs, winemakers, and of course a large part of society. This is a project that I confess is one of my greatest satisfactions as a public official, although I attribute all the merit precisely to the team led by Paco Fabelo. Surely there are aspects that can be improved in its management and issues to be refined, but its results in this project and in the areas of agriculture and livestock that it also directs, are being undeniable and that is something that the PP cannot bear either.
The second of the dark areas managed directly by the president, according to the PP, are the CACT, attached as everyone knows to the Tourism area directed by the councilor Carmen Steiner, and administered by a Public Entity that also has for the first time a CEO without known political affiliation at present, such as José Juan Lorenzo.
But it seems that Astrid Pérez and her spokesperson - who maintained a fiction of brilliant management dressed up as a Strategic Plan that had more of a huge marketing operation than anything else, as everyone in the CACT knows and will soon become apparent - have not been able to overcome being removed from the Government for the good of Lanzarote, and there they continue with their tantrum.
The CACT are an open book for any of the members of the Board of Directors in which the PP has its own. It happens that they don't lift a finger except to invent false press releases. And that's how it goes for them.
Finally, in the only area that depends on me of the three pointed out by the PP, it seems that they cannot bear that I have channeled the solution to the enormous problem of the island's water emergency, and they try to cast all kinds of shadows on "alleged kickbacks", necessarily devised between the one who speaks to you and a company directed precisely by their colleagues from the Popular Party in Madrid, a company that according to the insular PP "has deceived us and I should clarify that deception". No comment.
As for the information of the contract that they say we are hiding from them, I invite any of the 150,000 citizens of the island to - by appointment - access the information that the PP says we deny them. Maybe among those thousands of citizens there is some member or supporter of the PP and they can clarify a little, just a little, the ideas to Astrid Pérez and Ángel Vázquez.
That said, I have already dedicated more minutes to them than they deserve. There are many responsibilities that I must attend to every day, and among them is not to respond to this PP in the Cabildo that is dragging an important and necessary party in the island's politics to the most absolute mediocrity.
