Excuse the bombardment, but I feel obligated to give a penultimate message aimed almost exclusively at all the voters who just a year ago revalidated the trust they had already given us in 2011, making us the leading political force in Lanzarote, and this has not been by chance, but by the work of the women and men of the Canarian Coalition who have made this island a better place to live and we do not have to bow our heads but quite the opposite.
We are the leading force in many municipalities, in the Cabildo of Lanzarote and in the Parliament of the Canary Islands on our own merits, because people have been able to see with facts that with the Canarian Coalition, a better island was possible. In the treatment of waste, in the management of tourist centers and the integral water cycle, in investments in renewables and the commitment to a more sustainable energy model, in island investment plans for municipal cooperation or in the social welfare system in which our candidate for the Senate, Marciano Acuña, has had the main merit. And all this has been the result of the work of the women and men of the Canarian Coalition on the island.
However, in the General Elections we lose between three and six thousand votes, and I am going to explain why I think this happens and what those lost votes are being used for.
We lose them because the voters of the Canarian Coalition, in the general elections go to the polls in a national key, and vote under the false belief that they can choose or change the political color of the next Government of Spain.
But the truth is that those 4,000 lost votes are added to the hundreds of thousands of votes from Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria to elect the seven deputies of this province and the most they will achieve will be to change one - generally none - of the deputies that will correspond to one of the large parties, and therefore they have no real relevance when it comes to forming the next government.
However, if we retained the vote of the Canarian Coalition in these 3 islands, we could achieve that at least one deputy from the list, which on our island is headed by the president of the young nationalists of the Canarian Coalition and councilor of Arrecife, Samuel Martín, accompany Ana Oramas in Congress, the only deputy who in Madrid speaks of the problems of the Canary Islands, as is known.
And if this is the case in Congress, what about the Senate, because there we can directly decide who we want to be the person who represents Lanzarote. That is, whoever has one more vote than the second, and I have to ask you not to go with more experiments.
In Marciano Acuña, Lanzarote has someone honest, committed and capable who already obtained the majority support of his people in Haría, where they know him best, but all the NGOs and social groups on this island also know him well. Ask them about those most in need.
I am sure that the rest of the candidates also love this land very much, but it is no less true that history is full of examples of submission to the dictates of their organizations from the capital of the kingdom. The closest one, that of the penultimate senator for this island who was not with his land and with his people when he was not able to defend the greatest social, political and institutional demand in the history of Lanzarote, such as the refusal to carry out oil explorations on our coasts.
And the same will happen with the port authority or with the large wind farm that former President Zapatero promised us, to give just a few examples, of what none of the candidates from the four major state parties will put on the table without the prior approval of their national leadership. Something that, without a doubt, will be a priority on the agenda, both for Marciano Acuña and Samuel Martín, to the Senate and Congress.
For all that and much more, I ask the voters of the Canarian Coalition - with whom we would have enough to win these elections in Lanzarote by a long way - that if they gave us the confidence to govern what is close, do not abandon us when it comes to choosing our representatives to Congress and the Senate and maintain that support that they gave us nothing to govern the destiny of Lanzarote.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much. Pedro M. San Ginés Gutiérrez, president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and member of the Canarian Coalition.