SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 1 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Popular Party candidate for mayor of La Laguna, Ana Zurita, has presented an electoral program today Saturday “not for this term, but for eight years” and has warned that the PP “has come to stay”.
During her presentation, the candidate said that it is an honor for her to be able to build a project for La Laguna with all the lagoons and with the team that accompanies her. “To be able to accept this commitment to solve current problems and not promise anything that we can’t deliver,” she said.
The candidate assured that she has “one priority and four challenges for La Laguna.” Zurita explained that the center of his program will be young people because he wants La Laguna “to be a place where this group can find work; enjoy leisure, cultural and sports activities; access quality education; and have access to housing affordable to develop a life project”.
Regarding the challenges “to build a great economic project that attracts investment to La Laguna”, Ana Zurita indicated that the first is to recover the prominence of the city within the metropolitan area and for this “it is necessary to invest in public transport infrastructure and private, the promotion of tourism and the local economy that, together with the improvement of taxation, help us to build a municipality that adapts to the needs and expectations of citizens and visitors”.
Establishing the balance and equality of municipal action between the historic center and the different nuclei of the municipality will be the second of the challenges of the popular candidate: “The development of the different neighborhoods has not been parallel, neither in time nor in the quality of its services or infrastructure, which has generated important imbalances that we will attend to and solve when we reach the mayor’s office”.
As a third premise, Ana Zurita is committed to reinventing urban planning and action models since, in the candidate’s opinion, “the state of paralysis of urban and territorial development in our city requires, for its revitalization, a new General Urban Planning Plan that speeds up and simplifies urban planning in the city, focusing on economic development and improving the quality of life conditions of our towns and neighborhoods”.
The last of the challenges involves facilitating access to “social and affordable” housing, creating the appropriate conditions to finance and develop it.
In this sense, Zurita recalled that in La Laguna “there are almost three million square meters classified as developable in which some 16,000 homes could be built, but to achieve this, innovative and viable solutions must be implemented, coordinated between the different administrations and that also add the collaboration of the private sector”.
“THE BEST CHOICE”.
The president of the Popular Party of the Canary Islands and candidate for the Presidency of the autonomous Government, Manuel Domínguez, has assured that his formation is “the best option for the 88 municipalities of the Archipelago, to promote the long-awaited change of political course that the canaries and the rest of Spaniards”.
The popular leader has affirmed that in the Canary Islands “there is a change of scenery” led by the PP: “We are the party of management, of trust, that adds wills, that does not divide, an inclusive party that rewards capacity and struggle for real equality, without appropriating any movement, without hijacking feminism, without fighting for the fight for the rights of all”.
This was stated today Saturday at the presentation ceremony of the popular candidate for Mayor of La Laguna, Ana Zurita, in which the general coordinator of the national PP, Elías Bendodo, and the candidate for the Presidency of the Cabildo de Tenerife, also intervened. Lope Afonso.
Domínguez recalled that in recent years the Canary Islands have been “subjected” to the actions of “a victimist government”, which “has tried to take advantage” of the problems, of the catastrophes, of the suffering of the Canaries to show pity and hide their inability to management, to hide the fact that 4 million euros have been lost in the purchase of false masks, to hide the fact that 3 million units of expired medical supplies are stored in hospitals, and to disguise their disastrous management in the social sphere”.
Domínguez also criticized the regional executive for refusing to lower taxes: “He has preferred that the money be found in the banks and not in the pockets of the canaries, at a time when the crisis is wreaking havoc and inflation is attacking the the economy of our people”.
On the other hand, he also insisted on the “need” to clarify everything surrounding the “Tito Berni case”, “the largest episode of alleged corruption in the Canary Islands, which was born within the Socialist Party and within the Government itself”. .
“The PP is there to put an end to this stage of mistakes and mismanagement,” said Manuel Domínguez, indicating that “starting next May 28, the Canary Islands will recover the prestige and image that they have taken from us. When we get to the Government we are aware that the situation we will find will be complicated, but we will provide solutions to the problems”.
Regarding the candidate for mayor of La Laguna, the president of the Canarian PP indicated that “she is the best option for the municipality”: “Zurita has demonstrated her ability to work and her commitment through the different responsibilities she has carried out since the different administrations, and will be able to restore splendor, rigor, good sense and good management to La Laguna”.
A VERTEBRADOR ISLAND PROJECT
For his part, the candidate for the Presidency of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Lope Afonso, who assured that “Tenerife needs to have, as we defend from the Popular Party, an island project that is a backbone, cohesive, and that meets the needs of the citizens, regardless of where they live.
In this context, Afonso vindicated the role of La Laguna, “which is fundamental in achieving this objective”, and in this sense, he assured that “during the next term, La Laguna, hand in hand with Ana Zurita, will move away from focus of administrative and judicial problems in which it is currently involved, and will contribute, with its strategic equipment, to the better structuring of the Island”.
