“I hope to become the first female mayor in the history of Teguise with a new style of governance.” These were my words expressed in the golden minute of one of the electoral debates I attended as a CC candidate for the Teguise City Council. But, what's more, in my public interventions during the campaign, I expressed two objectives that feed back into each other: to lead a change that would improve the quality of life of all the residents of the municipality, from my global and experiential vision in the Public Administration - because I know how things are done after twelve years of management tasks - and on the other hand, to do it supported by a team of people dedicated to public service, competent and committed, because as I also said “we have an immense task ahead, but I do it with a renewed team.”
Since I have taken office, I have been clear about the immediacies and urgencies, but also the projections expressed by our neighbors during the campaign and which are the port I inevitably want to reach. In my campaign, I told them that the “formula works”, but it works apart from personalism, because the key to knowing how to be where you have to be is provided by the CC Teguise project, with a team of people, integrated into a local committee that confronts ideas, realistic solutions and acts as a bloc.
It is not a question of being defined in the media as the replacement of the previous mayor, or the heir to a supposed poisoned legacy, but rather that my neighbors see me as an engine of feasible change. I aspire to be judged by my own actions. What less freedom of action than that day-to-day work when I have not even been 100 days in the municipal government!
The new governance formula, proposed for Teguise, not only has the imprint of the acronyms I represent, but also adds another political force: the PP. With them we take these first steps, always thinking about strengthening the government and stability, adding other supports that allow us to develop a complete legislature with guarantees. The elections provided some results in Teguise; the PSOE was the winner, but did not get support to govern. The reality is that a government is constituted from the sum. For that reason, I continue to insist on my outstretched hand to all those who want to work for the well-being of Teguise.
It has not been five weeks since I was appointed mayor, facing in the middle of my nascent government some general elections that also conditioned the municipal day-to-day, and even so I am bombarded from the opposition with judicial sentences that we will abide by and assume. Nothing new under the sun! What is the point of shooting with wet gunpowder?
We will make the whole process transparent in the appropriate spaces and at the appropriate pace. However, what I am not going to allow is that judicial issues - which they know inside out - are used to throw, with a twisted spirit, squid ink on the work of the little ant that the entire government team has been doing since I took over the Teguise City Council. I am sure that all of us who have given proximity and management will understand that these maneuvers - which play to mislead - are unfair.
In short, what our neighbors have to be clear about is that we are on their side, forming every day a network closer to their needs thanks to active listening, presence in the street, immediate response when the issue allows it, that is, acting aware of our daily obligations and responsibilities, without shirking responsibility and without hiding in the offices.
The coordination with the Cabildo and the Government of the Canary Islands is being easy, because we are united by the same purpose: the action on the inaction accumulated during years of sectarian and exclusionary politics for municipalities like Teguise that were under the control of the acronyms of the "enemy".
I reiterate in these lines the pride it is for me to be mayor of Teguise, because I feel my municipality as my home. I may disappoint you, because there is no magic wand or immediate response time for all existing needs, but it will not be for not having tried or for not having put the best of myself to continue moving forward.
