It's normal that Oswaldo and CC don't like my candidacy, I even take some pearls they've dedicated to me lately with sportsmanship, but I don't understand politics as a constant confrontation.
In fact, I think those who bet on disqualifying the rest of the political options are wrong. Almost all of them are necessary, and that is precisely why I defend an integrating project for Teguise in which we avoid labels and focus on what is important: the neighbors and their problems, regardless of who they have voted for or what acronyms they may have defended in the past.
That's how I see politics, that's how I practice it.
Perhaps the date I was born, a Three Kings Day in 1978, has something to do with this conception. A day of dreams, yes, but above all the year of the most important political agreement in this country: the Spanish Constitution. Be that as it may, I have always thought that in politics agreements are fundamental when it comes to certain issues.
And as I think so, I may have notable differences with Oswaldo Betancort and CC, in fact I do not share their way of managing Teguise, but I consider that for the good of the Municipality several agreements will be necessary in the future.
Whether PSOE or CC governs, the former being more likely, there are issues that I consider capital and on which a shared effort must be made.
This is the case of investments, where it is essential to demand that the other Administrations do not forget Teguise, even more so when the investment capacity of the City Council is conditioned by the payment of different compensations and outstanding debts. On issues such as the improvement of our educational infrastructures, sanitation for our payments and towns or the modernization of Costa Teguise, we must all be united, and I will count on CC to claim what is fair for our Municipality, because unity is strength.
Or when we talk about planning, such as the new PRUG of the Chinijo Archipelago, the revision of the current General Plan or the Special Plan of the Historic Center of the Villa, where it is not possible to stand aside, but to bet on maximum information and institutional loyalty to forge the agreement.
And also in a matter that affects the entire Corporation, such as providing our City Council with the necessary human capital to make it a machine in the management of files, so that the neighbor does not wait months, or years, for a license or for the Modernization Plan of Costa Teguise to reach cruising speed.
In these issues I will extend my hand to the rest of the parties in the Consistory, because above the interests of the Municipality I will not place anything or anyone.
I know it is another way of understanding politics, but that will be the project that we will offer to the residents of Teguise. It is our commitment to change, our challenge.
And speaking of challenges, we'll see you at the Eighth Island Challenge.
By Marcos Bergaz, PSOE candidate for Mayor of Teguise
