LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA, 18 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Popular Party candidate for mayor of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Jimena Delgado, has warned that in the regional and municipal elections on May 28, the choice is between “keeping the Sánchez branch open” in the city or “changing towards freedom, prosperity and good government that identifies the PP”.
This was stated in the presentation of his candidacy, which took place today Saturday at the Hotel Santa Catalina and which was attended by the president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo; the president of the Popular Party of the Canary Islands and candidate for the presidency of the regional government, Manuel Domínguez, and the candidate for the presidency of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Miguel Jorge Blanco.
Jimena Delgado, a career civil servant for more than 25 years, has affirmed that the citizens of the capital of Gran Canaria “cry out” that the change “come soon”: “I have been kicking around all the neighborhoods of the city for several weeks and I only receive affection , illusion and support, and I do it without bodyguards and without having to dodge boos and banners, understanding people and giving them a halo of hope”.
The popular candidate stressed that the current government in the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria City Council “is failing in all the most basic things: cleanliness, security, mobility, care for green spaces and social care”, which which has given rise to an “abandoned city”. For this reason, she said that she would stand in the next elections “to offer solutions, hope and the change that Las Palmas de Gran Canaria needs” because “we have plenty of enthusiasm, determination and courage”.
Delgado admitted that perhaps she is a little-known candidate, but she sees this as a “strength”, since “it is better to make yourself known as I am than to bring a backpack loaded with Pedro Sánchez’s bad policies,” he said, referring to the minister of Health, Carolina Darias, Socialist Party candidate for mayor of the capital of Gran Canaria. In addition, he made it clear that she has experience “in what the city really needs, which is effective, effective and efficient management of public money.”
“PUT ORDER” IN THE TOWN HALL.
Upon becoming mayor, Jimena Delgado promised, first of all, to “put order” in the City Council, order the accounts, pay small businessmen and the self-employed, who are owed 117 million euros, execute the 100% of the budget and, above all, spend the 330 million euros that are in the municipal accounts.
He also promised to carry out a “radical change” in the way the city is managed, redistributing the city’s districts based on real and specific needs, and making the councilors have their offices in the neighborhoods, which they will become mayors or district mayors, with real powers, with a budget and the ability to act.
On the other hand, he proposed to immediately implement a shock maintenance and cleaning plan “to get the city ready”; also recover the neighborhood police and provide more material resources to firefighters, Local Police, mobility agents and Civil Protection. “It’s over to see fire stations without water and without firefighters, trucks that fall apart, cameras that don’t work and police without sound level meters.”
Another of his promises is to create the great Giniguada park, connecting the Jardín Canario with the coast, uniting Vegueta and Triana and connecting the cliffs with the city: “That will be our Central Park or our Retiro Park.” He also ordered mobility and traffic in the capital, forcing the competent administrations to undertake “once and for all” the large road infrastructures in the city and finish the Metroguagua project.
With regard to people, especially young people, she announced that, if she is mayor, she will turn Las Palmas de Gran Canaria into the capital of Dual Vocational Training, she will create the first Municipal Film School and language schools in the neighborhoods. She also promised to lower the IBI and eliminate all fees that hinder economic activity, such as the opening fee.
In order to “resuscitate” the city, Jimena Delgado stressed that it is essential to govern in an absolute majority, a “strong, stable and solid” government to turn Las Palmas de Gran Canaria “into one of the great capitals of Spain”. “We are going to achieve it and the city is going to be dyed blue,” he concluded.
“A 180º TURN”.
The candidate for the presidency of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Miguel Jorge Blanco, stressed that Jimena Delgado is the only one capable of giving “that 180º turn” that Las Palmas de Gran Canaria needs, of giving “an absolute turn” to the management of municipal public services, and promised to help achieve this, to change and transform the city after eight years of “misgovernment” by the tripartite, “where problems go on forever, where indolence and laziness have settled in the City Council”.
Finally, the president of the Popular Party of the Canary Islands and candidate for the presidency of the regional government, Manuel Domínguez, stressed that the PP has been a “fundamental piece” for the development of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with mayors such as José Manuel Soria or Juan José Cardona, who “left their mark, their ability and their good work in the history of the city.”
He also said that he did not want to make the same mistake that the general secretary of the PSOE Canarias, Ángel Víctor Torres, made by saying, “perhaps due to ignorance or triumphalism”, that the “part-time” Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, was going to be the first female mayor of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, when Pepa Luzardo was with the Popular Party.
Manuel Domínguez affirmed that Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has been subjected to “absolute abandonment” and “does not deserve to be immersed in paralysis”; Hence, he supports the candidacy of Jimena Delgado because the city “needs an excellent professional, an experienced manager and someone with strength and rigor” who “has a great project in mind for a great city.”
