Albacete (EFE).- The mayor of Albacete and candidate for re-election for the PSOE, Emilio Sáez, answers the ten questions that the EFE Agency asked the PSOE and PP candidates from the five provincial capitals.
Ask: What is the first step you will take if you are elected mayor?
Saez’s response: Prepare and present the budgets for 2023, necessary to launch all the projects that we have pending execution in the city, such as the start-up of the Intermodal Logistics Platform and Puerto Seco, with the contribution of 500,000 euros to be made by the City Council.
We have to prepare the project for the Albacete Art Museum, with a permanent exhibition of Antonio López, the rehabilitation of degraded areas of the city, pedestrianization up to Gabriel Lodares square, launch projects for new sectors so that homes can be built as soon as possible public and the development of industrial land. And, in the following semester, we will open the Speed Circuit for different uses.
Sáez’s vetoes to form a government
Ask: Do you have any veto/red line to form a government?
Saez’s response: We have clearly shown that we can govern alone and we would like to obtain the greatest possible support to carry out our project.
Those of us who have had the opportunity and the honor of having governed this city can be judged by what we have done and not by what we promise that we want to do, and in that the citizenry is intelligent to analyze what one or the other has been able to do in his tenure.
Ask: Who are you willing to agree with?
Saez’s response: In that governance, which I would like to be a majority, I would do it with the civil society of Albacete. It is abundantly clear that I will not agree with Vox and I understand that with the current PP of Manuel Serrano it is not that it is feasible to agree or not, but rather that it is almost unfeasible to communicate with them.
With which, after the elections, each party will have to reconsider the strategy to follow for the next four years.
Ask: If you are not mayor, will you continue in the City Council leading the opposition throughout the legislature?
Saez’s response: I do not consider that possibility, I aspire to govern in majority.
The three challenges of Albacete for 2030, according to Sáez
Ask: Three challenges facing the city in the year 2030.
Saez’s response: We have a healthy city, won for the people and we must continue that trend, with a city that by 2030 will have resolved the housing and substandard housing problems that exist in some areas.
Solidarity, in which no one is left behind, in which the Universal Accessibility Plan is fully developed or very advanced.
A very touristy city, taking advantage of all our synergies and gastronomic, commercial and museum benefits; with a new football stadium and, if possible, with a First Division team, and with a sports hall and an Olympic swimming pool that will allow us to hold high-level competitions and have well-cared for athletes.
Ask: Do you think that voters will vote municipally or will it influence national and regional politics?
Saez’s response: Now they play municipal and regional elections, time will have to evaluate the policies at the state level. The city is made by people, not parties, in Albacete I am known for my ability to work, involvement and the projects that we have put on the table endorse us.
We have complied with everything we said, both in the electoral program and in the government pact.
Ask: What do you think is the main concern of your constituents and what solutions do you propose?
Saez’s response: Although we have improved in terms of employment and we have 6,000 fewer unemployed than there were when we came to government, there are more than 10,000 people unemployed and that forces us to bet on training, training, employment strategies.
What a mayor has to be is the first commercial in his city, take his briefcase and go to sell the city to attract new investments, new companies.
Sáez’s proposals for the youth of Albacete
Ask: What are your plans to improve the lives of young people (housing, work?) or attract young talent to the city?
Saez’s response: The objective is that our young people, once they finish their training, do not have to leave. For this, we have to work to attract companies and investments and training our youth is essential, to cover the needs that these companies will have.
Job training must be à la carte and very agile, giving an immediate response to the projects that are proposed to us.
The supply of affordable housing also plays an important role so that people do not have to go abroad.
Ask: Highlight a quality of your main opponent or a concern you share with him about the city.
Saez’s response: It is possible that it has some quality, but after the infamous electoral campaign for which the PP is betting, far from any proposal for our city, it is difficult for me to highlight any virtue.
Ask: With what three words would you like those who live outside of it to define your city?
Saez’s response: An open city, where you can enjoy, eat, shop and walk like no other. A caring, clean and safe city.