The recently appointed councilor of Puerto del Rosario Miguel Felipe Rastrero (Badajoz, 1965) from Vox will alternate his position as an airplane pilot with his entry into politics with three points: security, immigration and occupation. Now, he opts as a candidate for the island of Fuerteventura to the Senate in the general elections of 23J.
Do you think that the Vox controversy in Tenerife will affect your candidacy?
It has nothing to do with it. In any case, I don’t know what happens on the other island, so I don’t know if there have been bureaucratic or administrative errors or what kind. I don’t think that people stop voting for a project that is quite positive because of an error in an electoral board.
What are the proposals you want to raise in the Senate?
Fundamentally, three points: we lack security, since the National Police and Civil Guard troops are ridiculous when we have an island of 120,000 registered people, in addition to an overpopulation of tourists; then, we are not against immigration, we just want a legal and orderly one, in the same way that we protect our borders by air, demanding documentation and asking that people with crimes in their countries not enter, we have to do the same in the maritime, focused on ending the organized mafias that cause the deaths of these people.
And something that is affecting Fuerteventura a lot is the illegal occupation. We want the current housing law to be changed because it favors occupation and here we have a huge problem of homelessness, so we want to promote social housing. Apart from the fact that Fuerteventura has a devalued health system for not being a capital island. We have a severe shortage of doctors and resources and, even though it is regional, it must be defended because our idea is that healthcare be the same for all citizens of Spain. A Canarian citizen does not have the same quality as a Madrid citizen.
What do you think of the state of CATE?
We want to return these people to their countries when they are not admitted, but it does not mean that they are not given the best possible treatment here, although the greatest humanity is to prevent African mafias from smuggling people. We have had candidates of all kinds of races and religions on our lists and we agree when they integrate and work. We have all been immigrants, the Spanish the first.
Will Vox reach the Senate?
The surveys of the elections The regional and municipal elections were very bad, and we went ahead, and as for the Senate, we believe that we will leave because our discourse is getting through. We are normal people, workers who come to contribute to politics, like me.
Can the controversies of your fellow peninsulars, such as denying sexist violence, affect you?
I do not agree that we have denied one type of violence, only that there are more types. We defend women more than anyone and we want to stop violence against women and increase penalties, but we also want to defend an elderly person, a child. They are the rest of the parties that deny the evidence.
How do you explain to the public the usefulness of the Senate?
If we go back to its creation, the parties sent their best figures. It serves to reflect the problems of the island and its solvency at the state level.
