The spokesman for Drago Canarias, Alberto Rodríguez, has announced this Wednesday that he will also present his candidacy for mayor of La Laguna in the elections on May 28, in parallel to his concurrence in the regional elections, heading the regional list of the game.
He explained that he aspires to the mayoralty of La Laguna to avoid that “the disaffection and disappointment” that have caused the last four years of municipal government (PSOE-Unidas se Puede-Avante Laguna) translate into an abstention that supposes the return of the conservative forces at the head of it.
The former deputy of Podemos, a party that he left after losing his seat in Congress after a judicial conviction, has announced his candidacy for the La Laguna City Council on the occasion of the presentation of the people who will head the lists to the Parliament of the Canary Islands for the constituency of Tenerife, Carmen Peña, to the Cabildo de Tenerife, Carmen Pestano, and to the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Romén García Arteaga.
“We are willing to give our all to transform La Laguna, the entire municipality,” so that the welfare and change policies in public spaces “also reach the neighborhoods and towns, where the majority of the population lives,” said Rodríguez, who affirmed that his candidacy is “a collective decision and a personal challenge.”
Rodríguez explained that there are many people who do not participate in politics or in the electoral processes and that is why “a renewed force that proposes to do things differently” is necessary.
“Flirting and looking the other way when there are hints of corruption” generate “disaffection” and keep people away from participation, he said.
For this reason, “if abstention increases even more, we run the risk that the right-wing, the conservative forces, enter the municipality with force.”
In his opinion, since 2019, when the progress pacts were established in the Government of the Canary Islands and also in the La Laguna City Council, there has been “a very great disaffection with politicians in general, with the people who are in the institutions and with the promises and beautiful words” that do not translate into fulfilled deeds.
His objective, he stressed, is for “people to find a ballot of hope and illusion”, an alternative for people who are never going to vote for “those who have been with them all their lives” nor “for those who entered new”, because “They didn’t do what they said they were going to do.”
Carmen Peña, who heads the list of Drago Verdes Canarias to Parliament for the Tenerife constituency, assured that everyone “will bravely show their faces to enter the institutional sphere and change reality.”
Carmen Pestano, candidate for the Cabildo de Tenerife, affirmed that the candidacies of Drago Verdes Canarias arise “from the street”, from “normal and ordinary people” who see how “once again the usual ones have taken over the space of political representation to make decisions that do not represent us”, such as the motor circuit.
“It was already good, that space is also ours and we are going to take it,” announced the candidate, who defended “decision-making from a strictly Canarian framework, the Canarian confederacy and the change of production model for the islands.”
Romén García Arteaga, candidate for the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council, affirmed that “at last the chicharrero people are going to have a real transformation option”, given “the weariness” of the fact that election after election the same proposals and the same candidacies are presented “to the right and to the left”.
“We do not need to go to the neighborhoods to find out their needs, because our candidacy is made up of ordinary neighborhood people willing to fight against institutions that have abandoned the citizens,” he said.
