I look at a photograph in which I appear 10 years younger and I think: How I have changed and how the world has changed. Even my own goals: from managing a nursery I went on to be a councilor in Teguise, and now I am taking the step forward to aspire to be the first female mayor in the history of Teguise. My own mother, from whom I have inherited her hyperactivity and curiosity, even said to me when she found out about my plans: "Girl, why don't you unfreeze yourself from the employment lists of the Ministry of Education and dedicate yourself to something simpler."
Don't think I didn't think about it, but I'm sure many women who challenge themselves understand me well if I tell them that I am one of those who, when we get a purpose in our heads, don't stop until we achieve it. That's why I told my mother, without whose support I couldn't reconcile family and politics, that precisely because of the matriarchal values she has instilled in me, she had to respect that I wanted to demonstrate that I not only know how to manage a home or a company, but that I can demonstrate that the governance of a woman can make an important difference. Why reject that opportunity?
I assure you that I have so much confidence in our vision of how an administration should be organized and prioritized that I decided to increase the representation of more women on my list. Obviously, I am one of those who work in a team, regardless of gender, but even my male colleagues in the party have positively valued this decision. They themselves recognize the working capacity of women, because many observe it daily in their own homes, just as they recognize their ability to dissociate roles, to listen and solve problems with a different sensitivity. Neither better nor worse than that of a man, simply different.
In these days leading up to the campaign, the days are marathon, but I have the complicity of my two teenage daughters to face the future with optimism and gratitude. I feel very fortunate for the opportunity that is given to me, but I have also been working intensely for 12 years to get to know the town hall inside out.
In fact, I conceive Teguise, and therefore its town hall, as a home in which the time has come, not so much to expand it, but to maintain it, taking advantage of its public endowments and services, or what I call the economic and social profitability of what we manage. While some talk about a saturated island, I aspire to saturate the socio-cultural centers with people through their revitalization. In fact, I am willing to decentralize the cultural agenda, which tends to be developed in La Villa, so that all payments can enjoy what is produced from the City Council.
I want to provide the municipality with play areas for our pets, and also make beaches, squares and playgrounds true family meeting spaces, inclusive and accessible. I have the sensitivity, because I live it with my daughters, to offer young people (specifically between 16 and 24 years old) leisure activities according to their true interests and needs, and to include youth mental health in my work agenda.
From my point of view as a woman, I analyze certain problems (such as inter-island transport or the shortage of housing) from the work-family balance or from the perspective of quality of life. I am interested in my neighbors being happy and participating administrators. In short, I do not want to have differential treatment for being a woman, but I do have a studied, reflective and different vision of politics in the feminine that is already practiced successfully in other places and I want to show it to you.
