Not even the premiere of the new season of Game of Thrones will be able to compete with the classics that accompany Holy Week, such as Ben-Hur or The Shoes of the Fisherman. I'm sure I won't be the only one who finished watching them after several Holy Thursdays. As happens to me with The Ten Commandments, which this week will not pass, as it will inspire some of the maxims of our government from May, if my fellow citizens decide so.
A decalogue of the new Teguise style, where dialogue will be very present. Thus "you shall dialogue" will be our first commandment, promoting an exemplary transfer of power between the outgoing and incoming mayor, because that is how I understand politics. As we will immediately convey to all public employees that they are essential in this collective project that is Teguise, because governments fall and succeed each other, but the Administration and its workers remain to serve the general interests, and so it will continue to be.
Dialogue yes, to make possible the "you shall agree", non-negotiable in good politics. Therefore, we will convene all parties, from the beginning, to reach agreements on urban planning, investments and modernization of the Corporation, issues in which it is necessary to overcome the acronyms that each one defends. Because dialogue and agreement are premises for the third of the maxims to be a reality: "you shall manage".
Thus, during the first months we will be in charge of having a library of projects that allows us to seek funding on what we will do during the first four years, such as the new nursery in Costa Teguise or a beautification plan for our towns and payments so that they are not only remembered two months before the elections; we will give the instruction to incorporate social and environmental clauses in all contracts of the town hall that make a more sustainable Municipality; and we will get to work so that all supplies and services of the Town Hall are duly formalized.
And managing will be easier if we add wills through the "you shall participate", because politics in capital letters cannot be just voting every four years, but rather promoting citizen involvement, reactivating, for example, the citizen council of the eighth island, which gave such good results in the past. Participate yes, and guarantee the "you shall be transparent", because accountability is a requirement of good governance and we will not settle for a scraped pass, but we will aspire to be the most open and transparent Administration on the island.
Being a model to follow, as with the "you shall demand", to demand from other administrations what corresponds to Teguise, raising our voice when our farmers do not have water for the field or when they forget to provide furniture and condition the road from Arrecife to Tahiche, which should be the main sports avenue of the island. Without failing to tell the truth, without failing to comply with the well-known "you shall not bear false witness, nor shall you lie" because we will have our word, saying what can and cannot be, so that the neighbors do not get tired of so many unfulfilled promises that are perpetuated and that reinforce every day the need for "less promising and more doing", which I share.
These actions will mark the path of our Municipality, "quo vadis, Teguise". Even being Holy Week or Holy Week, as each one looks at it, it is not a matter of faith, but of management and desire. Which we have plenty of.
By Marcos Bergaz, candidate for the PSOE to the mayoralty of Teguise