The other day I heard my colleague Pedro San Ginés, with whom some who have a lot of free time constantly try to pit me against, say that the people of the Socialist Party should stick their heads in the sand every time the issue of water in Lanzarote comes up, no pun intended. How right my friend and colleague is, leader of my party despite everything that those who tried to eliminate him from what has been and will continue to be a great political career made him go through, and how far off his assessments are. Pedro, who resembles me in character like an egg resembles a pineapple, is now in a phase of moderate moderation, surely because of the position he holds in the organic part, because of the responsibility that we have all assigned him in Coalición Canaria (CC), an organization in which I am more proud to be a member every day. Surely he has to bite his tongue more than once, twice, and even three times to not say what he would say in other circumstances. I, of course, do not have that organic responsibility, but I do have a way of being that surely exasperates my adversaries and some colleagues.Now, let no one think, because they would be mistaken, that I don't have character, that things don't affect me, that I don't get angry, that I don't hurt for my land and its problems, that I don't have values that I like to defend vehemently if necessary… And I get angry mainly with injustices. And it seems unjust to me that a political party whose banner is idleness and inaction, at least from what we have seen and suffered in Lanzarote since the dawn of time, the greatest administrators of routine that has been seen throughout the length and breadth of human history, allows itself the luxury of questioning all day long the actions of those who, with mistakes and successes, do not stop doing things, working. They never build, they destroy. They never add, they subtractOn this Friday's plenary session, I once again felt like an animal on the Savannah being pursued by a group of soulless hunters. They go for what they want, and they don't hold back. That's why I had to tell the leader of the socialists and supposed leader of this whole strategy - we all know what's behind her - Mrs. Dolores Corujo, that everything she throws at me slides off. I didn't say it as they try to sell it as a lack of respect, neither to her nor to what she represents, much less to the poor voters of something that is nothing more than a terribly misrepresented political brand. I said it and I maintain it because I cannot pay attention to what someone says who speaks with a swagger and condescension improper of what I understand to be the basic principles that mark respect for one's neighbor; I said it and I maintain it because I cannot pay attention to what someone says who permanently gives lessons on issues that they were unable to resolve when they had the opportunity to do so and about which they very likely have no damn idea; I said it and I maintain it because I cannot pay attention to what someone says who has a backpack full of resentment and ignominy behind them, not good intentions. The advice of humble people, of older people with experience, of well-intentioned people who want the best for you, of those who want things to go well, of those who aim for a better Lanzarote… that doesn't slide off me. The paternalistic analysis made by fools about what they consider those whom they consider inferior beings or enemies to be defeated should do, that slides off me. Give the enemy no waterAs everyone knows in Lanzarote, because we live in a small town that is growing a lot and fast, something we are also taking care of, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, the PSOE, which is more little of worker and socialist, with some of its henchmen like the mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, leader of that which doesn't quite take off and threatens to be a new PIL – God willing we don't fall into such a punishment again-, a project that is only born to try to subtract votes from Coalición and favor the socialists, have made me the main target of their criticism. I am, even if it sounds strong, their "enemy", the enemy to defeat. They must talk about me in each of the meetings they hold to try to seize power in the next local elections. That's why you don't hear a single proposal from them that improves what we are doing. They are obsessed. They don't leave me alone and they consider, as the popular saying goes, that they shouldn't even give me water. And it's about water, because what really bothers these people, who instead of working only do calculations to try to perpetuate themselves in a comfortable way of life from which they are not willing to leave, is that in these two years and a bit that we have been in charge of the Cabildo we have been able to solve or direct each and every one of the problems that this land has, all those that they were incapable of solving, in some cases out of pure laziness, for not moving a paper, and in others, as we are seeing with the mega-urbanization of Playa Quemada, due to more than suspicious inaction.
How curious that these allies, the PSOE and Noda and his people, are now coming out with that the Cabildo has to buy the land in that marvelous area that is the town of Playa Quemada. How suspicious everything these people do and propose turns out to be. We always have to think the worst, and we are almost always right. We, with this and with other matters, will honestly seek what determines the common interest, not the interest of some, especially of some pockets. Doesn't it seem strange to you that they are now saying that a huge amount of rural land has to be bought? Because they tell you it's rural and then that we buy it. Anyway. Let no one worry, I insist, with territorial issues, an enthusiastic and hard-working Jesús Machín is working, a young, active boy like few others who loves his land like no one else and who will not allow the slightest trick from the usual ones. He, like his colleagues, is not in the permanent speculation that others lived in, he is not in interested battles with businessmen who don't laugh at your jokes or something worse, but rather trying to ensure that nothing is built that should not be built and reducing our hotel supply, the number of beds, to the maximum. All with planning, documentation, and legal certainty. How strange this kind of thing will sound to the hunters of the Sabana.
We are solving almost everything that needs to be solved; the water issue, too. But we are planning an Island model, here I logically include La Graciosa, for the future, without settling for the present and with the management of what is current. With the help of the great team we have at the Cabildo, with my government partners and with the formidable technicians of the institution – few but motivated and hardworking – we will be able to offer the citizens something that consolidates the future of generations who, like my daughter's, need to think that a Lanzarote with its protected landscape, with affordable housing, with truly sustainable development, with quality tourism, with good infrastructure, with good education, with leisure up to what is demanded… is possible. And we will do it, to the despair of this malicious troop, without wasting a minute on their constant provocations. With a clear and firm course