During these years that I have been at the head of the Teguise City Council, I believe that I have demonstrated, actively and passively, that I am concerned about and occupied with the problems of this municipality and its people. These have not been easy years; neither the first ones, in the midst of an economic and financial crisis, nor now, in the midst of a pandemic, but none of these adversities have diminished the desire and enthusiasm of myself or my team, who I believe have demonstrated the ability to detect problems and sufficient ingenuity to put together policies and combine resources to solve them.
We do not understand politics in any other way, and that is why I do not understand those people who approach politics, and even less local politics, as an artificial game of words, insults and exhausting actions. If you propose a solution, they prefer the other one. If you propose the other one, they prefer the first one. And if you give them both, they don't want either. They stay away from the real problems of the neighbors and the possible solutions as if it were possible to be in politics exclusively to live off the story, completely forgetting about the accounts, the neighbors and their needs.
The citizens of the municipality of Teguise gave us, for the second consecutive time, the majority sufficient to govern without the need for agreements, depositing all their trust again in the current team. Shortly after, barely eight months after continuing with what was planned, a pandemic was declared that changed our way of life and strained our economy to unsuspected extremes, with the population confined and without tourists on the island. Faced with this situation, we have been determined to find new formulas to guarantee that citizens do not lose either the rights or the well-being that has cost us so much to build and achieve together.
Faithful to my principles, I have always put the solution of problems before anything else, including partisan confrontation, with the aim of building bridges and not burning them. The same spirit that led me to reflect aloud in a local radio interview, where my statements from days ago are located, in which I expressed my intention to invite all the groups with representation in Teguise to form a government of concentration, in which we would all have the opportunity to go hand in hand and participate in the recovery of the health, economic and social normality of the municipality.
Without even having formalized this proposal, the result of responsibility and not of occurrence, I have been surprised how it has been immediately rejected by the socialist spokesperson in the opposition, Mr. Bergaz (also a councilor), who, judging by his resounding statement, clearly prefers stories to accounts. He prefers to entertain himself and delight us with his pedantic verbosity, rather than get down to work seriously. And I know that he loves politics, the media screen that public work gives him, the excessive game of words, some clumsy joke, and sometimes, the easy insult or personal disqualification towards his political rivals, those to whom he rejects any opportunity to solve the problems of Teguise and its people in order to simply air them for his sole enjoyment.
I will not be the one to tell the main representative of the Socialist Party of Teguise how to respond to his neighbors, but I will tell him that this is not the way I understand politics, and even less so at this time where electoral squabbles contribute absolutely nothing, because now is not the time, proof of this is the stupefaction with which Spain watches astonished an institutional earthquake difficult to justify by the political class that is turning this pandemic legislature upside down with motions or calls for elections in extremis, among other strategic movements that I fear do not seek the common good.
What is needed (whether in Murcia, Madrid or Beijing) is to lend a hand and join forces to help the people of Teguise reactivate our local economy, to care for our young people and our elders, to help local businesses, the self-employed, and everyone who needs us.
For all this, I still think that it could be a good option to constitute a government where we are all without exception, in which we put everything in common and agree on the actions and initiatives to be undertaken. It is a pity that without listening to the proposal, the reaction has been this: criticisms empty of content and the umpteenth attempt to discredit the mayor of Teguise. Is that really the way? Is that what our neighbors are asking us for? I am totally convinced that it is not.
