As many of you know, I am a teacher, an educator by vocation, since I was little this was always my favorite game. Life also led me to dedicate my youth to volunteering in different associations and NGOs, almost always linked to the world of children and young people at risk of social exclusion. Also in my childhood I discovered the value of our natural and cultural wealth. My mother is a craftswoman and my father, in addition to being a teacher, is a reveler. This made me spend a large part of my childhood from fair to fair, from party to party and from town to town. Our history, our past and our learning largely determine our future. Thus, following in the footsteps of my father, who also practiced politics from the Canarian space, and with the firm belief that public representation should be a tool to build a better society, I present myself as a candidate for mayor of Tías for Nueva Canarias.
When I decided to take the step into political activity, someone told me: "you seem like a good person, I don't think you'll last long." There is an obvious disenchantment with politics and with politicians who call themselves professionals. On many occasions, we see politicians more concerned with keeping a job in whatever place (institutional position or advisor), than with putting themselves at the service of citizens. These have focused on my inexperience in the world of politics, as a severe problem to exercise the management function. It is true that I do not have the experience that others have in this field, nor did they have it when they started, but what I do have is a great capacity to learn, I have the will and a great vocation for service. In addition, I have experience in many other fields that, while not strictly political, determine a new vision that puts people at the center of public action. And most importantly, I have a team of committed people and a project to take care of Tías together.
So yes. Tías, its neighbors, need good politics. They need transformative ideas and projects; a new way of governing focused on the people who live here. To change, neither more nor less, than the operating system of the municipality.
Because everything that surrounds us conditions us and marks our way of life. A municipality that takes care of us is a space focused on what favors the well-being of its citizens, whatever their age or functional diversity. Being able to walk to buy bread at the nearest store or take your baby for a walk in a stroller should be equally easy for all citizens of the municipality. It is about changing our way of seeing our environment by putting people at the center of political and public action.
A municipality that takes care of us is also a municipality with social infrastructures that boost the lives of citizens, create community and town. These social infrastructures allow us to be physically and mentally healthy. Bioparks, libraries, sports spaces, avenues, or teleclubs, are some of the spaces that need to be renovated and revitalized so that they fulfill their function: to meet to generate, together, experiences that directly influence our quality of life.
And so that these social infrastructures can exercise their function, we must have modern, accessible, inclusive, friendly and sustainable urban infrastructures. Because the home must be orderly, cared for and preserved. This includes sidewalks, roads, lighting, beautification, green areas, shade areas, everything that, in short, makes us feel comfortable in a place. Happy.
A municipality that takes care of us cannot forget those who most need to be cared for. And therefore, covering the basic needs of each and every one of the citizens must be, in a Canarian and progressive project like this, a priority. Because Canarianism is the project that understands and attends to the rights of our people.
The elders of the municipality wonder where they will spend their old age. Who will take care of them. Where they will live. Our elders do not want cold macro residences far from their homes. They long to be cared for in a human and close way. Our task is to ensure them a dignified and active old age. Adequate spaces adapted to their physical, mental and social needs. We must make it possible for them to count and share their experiences with the rest of the society of Tías.
The families of this municipality are the engine that makes the economy and the public sector work. Mothers, fathers, grandparents and children who build every day the town that we are today, but also the town that we will be. To ensure that they continue to be our engine, we must offer them quality public services. We need public kindergartens that allow families to reconcile.
Young people also have their space within this project because they are our future. Therefore, we must not act as if we knew what they want and what they need, we must listen to them and understand them. To project diverse leisure spaces according to their needs, to offer them training that allows them to access an increasingly complex labor world, to encourage youth associations and to bring them closer to volunteer activities so that they too can be part of a Tías that takes care of us.
A municipality that takes care of us must take care of the legacy that our ancestors left for us. Our environment and our heritage are unique and full of great wealth, our fields and our coasts, our crafts, agriculture, livestock and fishing and of course our culture, our traditions and our folklore must be valued with proposals that protect and disseminate the feeling of canariedad contained in all of them.
A municipality that takes care of us has the obligation to achieve the perfect balance in terms of tourism. It is undeniable that this is the engine on which the economy of the municipality is sustained, but we already know that betting everything on tourism can be very expensive, we have seen and lived it. And we know what needs to be done: diversify our economy and promote more sustainable tourism, which includes not only sun, beach and party activities but activities that make those who visit us understand that this is a land of enormous wealth, but also of great fragility. For this we need to implement proposals that include our gastronomy and our culture, proposals that integrate the primary sector or cultural proposals based on our folklore. To educate not only the tourist, but also our neighbors, in a vision of Lanzarote, Canarias and Tías beyond the beach postcard destination. We are an ancestral, beautiful and fragile land that has much more to offer from respect for its conservation.
Finally, a municipality that takes care of us must have a City Council that is an example of the home we want to build, with democratic quality, making good use of the power that the people have given it and focused with transparency on its tasks and obligations. A City Council open to citizen participation, respectful and empathetic, with a close and accessible administration. A City Council responsible in public contracting, which delegates the tasks that it cannot assume to transparent companies, which comply with the required conditions and treat their workers with dignity. Because whoever governs in the home has the responsibility to take care of all those who reside there.
In short, creating a home and designing a municipality that takes care of us is a project that is built together, with You.
