Las Palmas De Gran Canaria (EFE).- The deputy mayor of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Pedro Quevedo (Nueva Canarias), has presented this Saturday his project to govern the capital of Gran Canaria and has promised a candidacy “without fuss or weird things ” that deepens the transformation of the city that, in his opinion, his party has led in recent years.
In a pre-campaign act, Quevedo has vindicated Las Palmas as an open, mixed-race city and as a “tricontinental crossroads”, with a City Council that is in charge, he has said, of making things better for those who are doing worse, because that “It’s good for everyone.”
“We are interesting because we are the way we are, different,” claimed Pedro Quevedo, who added that they will give “someone a scare” with the results of the upcoming local and regional elections on May 28.
The NC candidate has opined that his party, which manages the areas of Tourism, Sustainable Mobility, Equality and Diversity and International Solidarity, has had to govern in a difficult scenario in which, however, the city has grown consistently and has turned.
“We have taken the guts of the city and we have repaired them to, for example, transform spaces such as the southern cone, persistently abandoned. Also the bike lanes, which caused us some displeasure in the past, and I believe that now they are going to recognize it because we are a national reference in this matter”, Quevedo declared.
He added that years ago it was unthinkable that the city’s public transport would increase 39 million people in a network “that has no comparison in the entire Canary Islands”.
The leader of NC has also vindicated the management of the tourist area, which in his opinion has served to transform the heritage and the city thinking of citizens “and not only for tourists.”
Finally, he has defended the employment data and the growth of the commercial fabric or the primary sector, at the same time that he has lamented the change of criteria of the Government of Spain with respect to Western Sahara and has asked not to trust Morocco.
Quevedo will be accompanied at the starting points by José Eduardo Ramírez, Mari Carmen Reyes, Nauzet Pérez, Esther González and Lourdes González.
During the act, the president of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Antonio Morales, also spoke, saying that his party has made it possible for there to be “real alternatives for those who have had the worst, putting the public at the center.”
Thus, Morales has defended the “ecological, plural and transversal” development model to reach society as a whole and make energy, water and food sovereignty a reality.
“Gran Canaria is the island with the highest penetration of renewables and we have important projects such as the metroguagua, which will be a reference for guided mobility. The next step will be the train ”, has predicted the president of Gran Canaria, who has also considered that his party has been key to modernizing the tourism sector.
For his part, the Vice President of the Canary Islands Government and President of NC, Román Rodríguez, pointed out that the Canary Islands are a people “capable of recovering and getting up” in difficult times and has indicated that the path to “conquer” the present and the future is through politics and institutions.
Regarding Quevedo’s candidacy, he has opined that the best management of the city has come from the areas of the NC councillors, who, in his opinion, have led the recovery of public spaces, a clear commitment to public transport and to pedestrians.
“This is a high-quality city, where we generate employment, with egalitarian policies that highlight diversity. Quevedo is the mayor that Las Palmas needs, a municipality that needs a shake-up to consolidate things”, Rodríguez insisted. EFE