Santa Cruz de Tenerife (EFE).- The general coordinator of Podemos in the islands, Laura Fuentes, presented her resignation this Thursday as general director of Youth of the Government of the Canary Islands, a position to which she claims to have given mind and heart in the “greatest challenge” of her life, to be able to present herself as a candidate for the autonomous Parliament in the elections of May 28.
In her social networks, Laura Fuentes explains that four years ago the priorities were “logical”, so that “it was time to give prominence to youth, and above all to break the stereotypes of conformism, criminalization, and selfishness that so damage the image of youths”.
He adds that, with the approval of the Law on Youth Policies last February, the main objective of the four-year work was fulfilled, since youth, “historically omitted” from the political and institutional agenda of the islands, “now has an instrument from which to promote their vital projects, with the certainty that the institutions will have the legal and inescapable mandate to serve them as support”.
Sources specify that he leaves the responsibility of the General Directorate of Youth to dispute in the upcoming May elections the future that “our people ask of us, and to ensure that the next Government of the Canary Islands fully assumes the values that our youth defend daily.”
Those values are “justice and decent employment, feminism, care for our land, redistribution of wealth, protection of all people in our territory, culture and identity,” adds Laura Fuentes.
The leader of Podemos thanks the “enormous” human group that makes possible the activity of the General Directorate of Youth and that has been essential for the institution to advance in the last four years, and appreciates “the trust, complicity, sensitivity and learning ” from the Minister of Social Rights, his party partner Noemí Santana.
He also thanks the entire regional government and the associations and groups that work with young people for their work. EFE