The local assembly of Sí Se puede in La Laguna has unanimously chosen Rubens Ascanio as its candidate for mayor of the municipality for the local elections to be held next year. The organization is part of the municipal confluence United You Can since its constitution in 2014 as an electoral formula of the left in the municipality.
Ascanio has been one of the visible faces of SSP in La Laguna since 2015 and has been chosen again as its top-of-the-list proposal in view of the process of local political confluence that they have been developing for seven years in the municipality, together with independent people and others. left parties.
Rubens Ascanio has been a spokesperson for United You Can since 2015 and a co-spokesperson since 2019. He is a History graduate born in 1976, married with two children, a resident of the San Benito neighborhood, with more than twenty years of work experience in the private sector and as a public office since 2015. In the current mandate, he is part of the municipal government of La Laguna as first deputy mayor, councilor for Social Welfare, Prevention of Drug Addiction and Sustainable Mobility, with a career that has ranged from promotion actions disability, recently recognized by the CERMI, in addition to updating and improving social care services and social housing policy.
In addition, he is a municipal representative before the Spanish Network of Healthy Cities (RECS) and before the Canarian Network Health Promoting Islands and Municipalities. Likewise, the municipal areas under his leadership have developed a broad plan for listening to and involving municipal entities and groups, amplifying actions with the creation of the municipal councils for Children, the Elderly, Disability, Volunteering, the Housing, Gypsy People and Migration roundtables. , among other.
Ascanio thanked the colleagues of his organization for their support, and stressed that “it would not be possible without knowing that I will have a great team of men and women willing to accompany me in this exciting collective challenge.” The Lagunero councilor recalls that “we are going to go to the elections again with a backpack of learning and knowledge, showing that we know how to carry out innovative, clean, close and responsible policies, where we have listened to everyone.”
She also thanked her family for their support, “it would be impossible to be able to carry out this work without the support and accompaniment of my life partner and my children, who have had to share their lives with a very intense daily schedule.”
Regarding the 2023 scenario, the SSP candidate indicated that “we are working so that La Laguna continues to be a progressive municipality, for which the consolidation of the confluence is essential. We are clear that by adding together we multiply forces and that there are many people who know that we provide fresh management, with proposals and with a spirit that needs to be amplified”. He insists in this sense that “we are committed to a municipality that is more social, more inclusive, healthier and that protects people, addressing needs such as housing or sustainable mobility, which have been forgotten for so long” .
