For all those who ask me about my continuity in politics, and about the PIL. I want to answer with these lines and make my position clear.
It is not easy to be a politician today. Some, with accounts impossible to justify in Switzerland, Panama or Andorra. Others, the good life at the expense of money from training and employment courses, etc. Now we see that careers, diplomas or theses that they presume to have can be as false as they themselves are as politicians. Vain with little desire to serve. Others think exclusively about what release or salary they can obtain from their participation in political life. Without ideals or illusions in it. No. It is not easy to dedicate yourself to politics.
But someone has to be. And those of us who have a vocation, desire, and a certain vision should not give up easily in the face of adversity. That is why I would like to continue being in politics and be able to contribute to making Lanzarote a better place. It is not easy, but we have a wonderful island, although with important infrastructures and services to be done or improved. I consider myself a fair, honest person, a good manager and administrator. I think I have demonstrated it where I have had responsibilities. But to be in politics you have to choose to participate in a party. That implies having "supposed companions". And you never know what company you get! A real lottery. So the first question is answered: Yes. I would like to continue in politics.
The second question is answered with a: No. I will not continue in the PIL. No, as long as the people who are currently in charge continue. I communicated it to the interested parties some time ago. It was a disappointment to see the lack of desire to do politics from the party leadership, to do something in these years, to relaunch the PIL. Nothing at all. From the Cabildo we have done everything possible to contribute to the island and keep the image of the party alive. Insularism had a privileged position to mediate with independence and equidistance. Being able to find agreements and solutions to problems that have been stuck for years on the island due to partisan confrontations. A unique opportunity for those who like politics, for Lanzarote and for the party.
I don't want to go into details or hurt anyone. But it is fair that you know what happened. It has been sad to see how the leadership of the "new PIL" has deceived and betrayed us. It has become clear that they had no desire to make a party, or to fight for their supporters, or for Lanzarote. Rather to use it, and even hand it over, for any perk they could obtain. We even got to see how other parties allowed themselves, as if they were directing the PIL, to announce when the Political Councils would finally be, to decide what to do before the new CC-PP pact in the Cabildo. Many people then thought that the president's release in Education weighed heavily.
Before the rupture of the CC/PSOE pact, the president calls me and asks me if I am willing to resign if the party decides so, since a new pact had been presented between CC-PP without, he said, counting on the PIL. I answer that without a doubt. That whatever the party decides, I will do. Just at that moment the president decides to disappear. A president who in the most important moments of the legislature, vital for Lanzarote and to relaunch the PIL, pretended to step aside. And he has been like that ever since. For months he prevented us from meeting the Political Council that we repeatedly requested to analyze the situation. If whoever holds the highest responsibility cannot for any reason perform it, I think they should leave it giving way to another person who has time and interest. They now announce that the president will return soon. When that happens, many will think again, with good reason, that as there are only a few months left for the elections, they have to start working on a next release. And so on until retirement.
As if it were not enough disappointment, the vice presidents, at the dictation of the president, try to expel the councilors of Arrecife for not maintaining the release of one of these. Also of the colleague from San Bartolomé, without prior known cause. Unheard of. Seeing for weeks the vice president of a party, in person, threatening his own councilors in the media with: "Either the salary is restored to me in the Ayto. or we expel them". It has been something unbearable, of shame. So I hope you understand that, once this legislature is over, the responsibility acquired, the circumstances are not given for it to continue. Neither in the party with this direction, nor in any political exchange that arises, that includes them. Don't count on me.
Maybe for this sad decision, which I announce today, I have no possibility of continuing in politics. I assume all the consequences that my position may have. Nothing more to say about it. Eternally grateful to the PIL supporters and to all those who, despite the difficult circumstances of this party last legislature, placed their trust in us and allowed me to be a councilor in this one. An honor. I have tried to live up to your trust and that of all the people of Lanzarote.