He mayor of Arona and socialist candidate for re-election, José Julián Mena, asked yesterday for “massive support” for the PSOE candidacy with the aim of reinforcing the municipality as the capital of the South region, “with health, education or roads to the height of other metropolitan areas, such as the one that makes up the Santa Cruz-La Laguna axis». Mena warned that “we already know how the opposition manages, because it had a majority in the last three years, in which it did nothing but paralyze key projects and investments to modernize the municipality.”
Mena asked to fill the polls with “votes and roses” as the only way for the South and Arona to have a strong voice on the island as a whole “to achieve objectives such as a top-level public hospital, health centers in Las Galletas and Los Cristianos, more public housing or new educational centers in Los Cristianos, Cho, El Fraile and the mediocrity”, as the municipal government demanded of the Department of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands.
The socialist candidate exposed it during the presentation of his candidacy, held at the Infanta Leonor Auditorium, in Los Cristianos, in the presence of the socialist general secretary of Tenerife, Peter Martinand the candidate for mayor of La Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, among others.
In it, he warned that “a few want a weak Arona, with multi-party pacts and shared mayoralties to turn the clock back eight years and return to the endemic evil of the policy aronera, in which a minority imposes its interests on the majority”, a situation that “we have experienced in the last three years.” In his opinion, “a weak political power is the best scenario for those who seek to do things illegally.”
José Julián Mena recalled that “it was always said that in Arona the people were not in charge, but some interests”. As mayor, “I have stood up to whoever was necessary, even with some who were colleagues, to defend all the neighbors.”
From the stage, Mena recalled those who fell ill and died in the pandemic, public services and municipal areas. He valued the fact that Arona was one of the few municipalities without a single contagion in nursing homes and valued “one of the largest social shields to mitigate the social and economic effects of covid-19, with more than seven million euros in aid”. In your balance, He cited that in this mandate, “the barracks of shame in Guaza were put to an end and the first sanitation and sewerage network in the history of Arona started.”
«They will always find us facing our faces and head on. We have it within reach and we are going to make it possible. On May 28, victory is ours. Welcome and welcome to the best years of Arona », he concluded.
