Just a month ago she took her first steps in active politics, although she was always involved in social groups, from Ampas to folk groups. Perhaps that is why several political parties have been interested in her person and have tried to capture her, but she always felt identified with the socialist acronym and therefore, her objective since 2015, when she began to serve in this party, it has always been that “the PSOE shines.” He has not had to start in a precisely easy political context: three councilors have left the group, two (Carlos Medina and Sandra Ramos) after being expelled due to their disobedience and a third, Carmen Dorta, for personal reasons. Sandra has taken the areas of the latter, Culture and Festivities to which Commerce has recently added, as a result of the distribution of areas in the tripartite Government also formed by Nueva Canarias and Sí se Podemos. – –
Did you ever think that you were going to enter the City Council with a divided PSOE, a manager in the local Association and sharing the government with two other parties?
“No, you always get into a project thinking that everything is going to be positive, and looking at the joint work in favor of the citizens. The internal wars that the parties have do not add to the citizenship at all, which already has enough with the day-to-day problems to which the pandemic has now been added. We must always put ourselves at the service of the people, not be talking about us on the street because that does not matter to them. It is a shame what has happened but I have always watched over the political colors that I represent and looking for the people ”.
-What is the current situation of the local Association?
“It is positive, it is gathering and regrouping many people, with meetings every week, and in which the councilors participate to explain and give an account of our work.”
Do you trust that more people will join the next elections and a secretary can be chosen?
“Yes, and I am blunt. There are many excited people who want to contribute and work. I notice it because I talk to people ”.
Do you consider fair the decision of the PSOE to expel the ‘disobedient’ councilors Carlos Medina and Sandra Ramos?
“I don’t make decisions. There was an investigating judge in the case and an open file. We are a very serious party, we have discipline and statutes and we cannot go against that. Each one is responsible for what has been done”.
What challenges do you have for the areas of Culture and Festivities?
“I want to move culture and parties to all neighborhoods. The upper part of the municipality is quite dismembered and if the residents cannot go down due to difficulties with transportation, cultural events and festivals will have to be carried there. That is the goal that I have set for myself and on which I will work from here until the end of the term. The old Medina Cinema, in Agua García, has practically no activity, and there are tools for it and we want to ”.
Are more cultural infrastructures needed?
“Yes, and above all human resources, that is, personnel in the areas.
What radiography do you take of the municipality?
“The pandemic has had a great impact on the neighbors. There is a lot of desire to go out and that is why any activity that the City Council generates will have the involvement of the people. However, there is a host of things that make people pessimistic, so you have to think less about political colors and more about citizens. Egos and egoism add up to nothing, on the contrary, they subtract ”.
You are a person very close to the deputy Nira Fierro, also a tacorontera, with whom you worked in the cabinet of the presidency of the Parliament of the Canary Islands. Would you like me to be the future mayor?
“I would love it and in everything she leads I will join. He is a very professional, hard-working, close person, with great values and a great heart, and that adds up to a lot in politics. He carries the flag of Tacoronte wherever he is ”.
