Ángela Gil Rodríguez (PSOE) is, since last December 2, the new spokesperson for the Municipal Socialist Group of El Rosario. A native of La Esperanza and a Law graduate, she faces this new stage with “great enthusiasm” and as a new beginning for the party in the municipality, after the conflicts in which it was involved in the past. “We want to turn that page of the book and start from scratch so that the residents of El Rosario can trust this party again,” emphasizes the spokeswoman.
– Why now this change at the head of the municipal group?
“Because the truth is that, as I have said on a previous occasion, this has been a match with its lights and its shadows, but now a new stage begins with new faces, and it will present a new and progressive project for each and every one of the nuclei of El Rosario, which intends not to leave anyone behind and committed to being next to people. We want to turn that page of the book and start from scratch so that the residents of El Rosario can once again trust in this game”.
-And how do you face this new stage at the head of the group?
“The truth is that I see it as a stage with many opportunities for the party to rise from its ashes, with a renewed team, with enthusiasm, with the desire to work for the municipality, something that translates into being available to neighbors, to give them a voice in the City Council, listen to them, visit every corner of El Rosario, trying to help them resolve their concerns. The truth is that we face it with great enthusiasm, for having a new opportunity and with a renewed team”.
-What changes do you want to introduce in this new stage?
“The main change is going to be being next to the people. We have not stopped for two and a half years, we have carried out many initiatives at the suggestion of the residents themselves, we have been to practically every corner of El Rosario. And we have started 2022 in the same way, visiting every corner, talking to the neighbors… I believe that our greatest strength is our closeness and that people trust us to transfer their problems”.
What are your goals for the municipality?
“One of our great concerns is the abandonment of agriculture. In El Rosario there is no type of project or active policy that helps this sector by the City Council. Sectors such as, for example, the livestock sector, which I believe we should help not only occasionally due to the COVID crisis, but constantly. Also beekeeping, another great forgotten, which has not only suffered the effect of climate change, but is also punished with a drop in the municipal subsidy, which started at 6,000 euros and is now at 4,000. We are concerned that the primary sector and organic farming are being forgotten. But, instead, the green light is being given to build a macro-urbanization of almost 1,000 homes at the request of Banco Santander in the middle of El Rosario. This is a reclassification of some 200,000 square meters of land that is classified as potentially productive and that will become urban, at the request of the bank, and the start of this procedure has already been approved in plenary and will be done by a substantial modification of the subsidiary regulations, but it is that, at the same time, the company that is going to elaborate the General Plan of Ordination of El Rosario, which is already in the process, has been contracted. We must bet on an organization of the sustainable territory that respects the agricultural, landscape and natural values of the municipality, and the opposite is being done. And we have areas with assets of cultural interest that we have not been able to take advantage of and promote, such as the Machado area. We are concerned about the coastline, which could be a benchmark in the metropolitan area and is increasingly further away from it; and the abandoned nuclei, where no initiative is carried out”.
-How do you assess the current situation of the municipality?
“The assessment I make is that the government group does not comply with what they promised so much, a great change for the municipality. It does not comply with the progress of El Rosario, we are at a standstill”.
-And the local management in these two and a half years of mandate?
“It is a very detached management of the people, who complain a lot that they do not attend to their requests, that they do not answer them. We have to carry out a local policy that is much closer to the population”.
-This change now in the spokesperson for the Socialist Municipal Group, does it mean that it will be the PSOE candidate in the municipality in the 2023 elections?
“One thing has nothing to do with the other, they are different charges. We must also remember that the party has an internal process, and from there the candidate will come out.
-But would you be willing to be a candidate?
“I would be willing, but you have to respect what is decided internally in the party, of course.”
