The PP candidate for Mayor of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria promises to “bring offices to the neighborhoods” and promote a Municipal Film School
The leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, supported this saturday Jimena Delgado’s candidacy for Mayor of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for her management skills and economic knowledge, “he first step to knowing how to finance public services for citizenship”. The national president of the popular He defended that the candidate he anointed for the capital of Gran Canaria “arrives after having learned”something that cannot be said, in his opinion, by the face presented by the PSOE, the Minister of Health Carolina Darias, recalling that when he arrived at the Portfolio he said that he did it “to learn” and that to date “he has not succeeded”.
In an act with several hundred affiliates and supporters, and the majority of PP candidates for the island’s municipalities, at the Santa Catalina hotel, Jimena Delgado once again outlined her political project for Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in which stressed once again the need to “bring order” to the Consistory from withinsince he is “heartbroken” by the management of the last eight years of the tripartite government (PSOE, Podemos and Nueva Canarias).
spoke of a work at two speeds in which the main thing would be to recover “cleanliness, security and order” in the city, with a shock cleaning plan, a plan for trees and care for garden areas, and providing more resources to the municipal security forces and bodies. Once these challenges have been achieved, continue developing a program that improves the quality of life of citizens and supports families, minors, youth and the elderly. And he also insisted on his decision to lower the Real Estate Tax (IBI) “as long as the fundamental commitments for the operation are met and social needs are covered”and to suppress other taxes that “hinder economic activity”, such as the opening, the tables and chairs or the kiosks.
Offices to the street
Delgado advocated “redistricting” to make a policy “closer” to the citizenry, installing the offices of the councilors “in the neighborhoods, in the streets” to be able to solve the day-to-day problems of its residents. As he announced, his “most important” councilors will be those who are next to the neighbor, “and not those of the Treasury or Urbanism”, and he will provide them with “competences and budgets to act.” That is to say, it will turn them into “true mayors of each neighborhood”.
Likewise, in that “second speed” of her political project, she announced that her purpose as mayor is turn Las Palmas de Gran Canaria into the “capital of Dual Vocational Training”, the one in which a large part of the teaching of the students is carried out in the companies in the sector that could hire them after that period. A way to “attract talent and prevent it from escaping as it happens now.” Likewise, he informed that he will promote the first Municipal Film School in the city, as well as the creation of different municipal language schools in the neighborhoods because he considered that teaching is the best tool to “generate economic activity”.
Delgado listed several anecdotes with residents of the city with whom she has conversed in these weeks of intense pre-campaign since she was appointed PP candidate for mayor. Thus, he spoke of Jerónimo, a 91-year-old resident of Almatriche who was run over “because there are no sidewalks on his street”, or of Juan Carlos, from Cuevas Blancas, who has to take his garbage “by car because the containers are more than a kilometer”. She also denounced the “coexistence and security problems derived from the terrible migration management that has been carried out these years” both in Tafira Alta and La Isleta: “I don’t want children to not be able to play or ride a bike (…) much less that cars explode in front of the houses”.
A “branch” of the PSOE
To achieve all these objectives, he called on the militancy to convince the population that a government “in absolute majority” is “essential”, which is “strong, stable and solid”. And he also summoned the citizens to vote on 28-M, presenting them with a dilemma between two options: “You choose between keeping the branch open of Pedro Sánchez in our capital, or the change towards freedom, prosperity, good governance in the management that identifies the Popular Party”.
In this sense, both the leader of the popular canaries, and candidate for the presidency of the regional government, Manuel Domínguez, and the national, Alberto Núñez Feijóo stressed that the “only alternative” to the left-wing government that has been ruling the city for eight years is the PP, and that the socialist candidate, Carolina Darias, is not up to the task of the capital of Gran Canaria because she prefers “the destination where it is now” (the Ministry of Health). “For this reason, she wants to stay and not come here,” said Núñez Feijóo.
The leader of the popular also indicated that There are ministers “who come to the Ministry to learn and when they are going to be fired they have not yet learned”, in reference to Darias, and added that Jimena Delgado will become Mayor “after having learned”; a candidate who “from the first moment exudes passion for serving the people, for being mayor and that she has harmony and support at home.”