" Good afternoon, first of all, I would like to thank you, on behalf of Podemos Cieza, for all the media that have been kind enough to attend this call.
As you know, on February 1 and 2, the primary elections were held in Cieza to prepare the candidacy for the municipal elections in May.
This Primary process has been developed in hundreds of towns and cities throughout Spain and in our Autonomous Community, in a first phase, in 25 municipalities hosting the participation of 90% of the population of the Region.
It is planned to present, in the future, other candidates for mayors to reach the presentation in 40 municipalities.
Last Wednesday we already announced to you, and today we confirm it, that the head of the list of Podemos in Cieza is Pilar Martínez Ros, who obtained 92.5% of the votes validly cast in said process.
The registered and enrolled of Podemos have had the opportunity to express their preferences regarding the first positions of the candidacy, since, although the list had a starting order that was agreed by its own members, this initial order has been seen altered by the preferences of the bases when voting.
According to the definitive results, the following order has been configured to the body of the list:
Piedad Abellán Vázquez
Carlos Javier Lucas González
José Eduardo Illueca Ballester
Cedric Beaugé Marín
María Marín Lucas
All the people that make up this team have organic responsibility within Podemos Cieza.
I would like to clarify, first of all, that this is the order marked by the registered but not necessarily the final order of the final candidacy, because it has to be compatible with the provisions regarding parity of the electoral law and the codes and norms We can, as is well known, are very demanding at this point, with the personal availability of each of the candidates and with the possibility of entry of independent persons or processes of confluence.
The process of primary elections implies, from a general point of view, the consolidation of Podemos in local politics, the culmination of a journey begun in 2015 in which Podemos has entered powerfully into the municipal institutional life bringing winds of change .
It closes, therefore, a historical stage, that of entry into institutions and opens another, as exciting or more than the previous one, where the goal is no longer to break out, but to get maximum influence in politics and in the decision-making processes in City Councils: "Making policy is managing".
In the DNA of Podemos there is the basic idea that politics has to be elaborated, from the bottom up, and that means, among other things, that there is little use for a large presence in state or autonomic political contexts if Podemos is absent and not it is visible, with force, in the municipal contexts.
This is our challenge, our great challenge, and Podemos is now prepared to assume it and become the great municipal force that this country needs.
In Spain, in Murcia and with greater importance for our neighbors and neighbors, in Cieza.
The team of people that today appear before the media is the nucleus, the embryo of what should be the future candidacy of Podemos Cieza.
Headed, by a woman, our compañera Pilar, an aspiring mayoress prepared, with character and experience, to which we all admire for their good work during these four years in our City Council.
As General Secretary of our organization, I would like to take this opportunity to announce that this candidacy will compete in Cieza with a winning spirit.
In less than four years, the government of change, has achieved many achievements, we must claim it that way.
The municipality has begun to change and people, I have no doubt, recognize it.
Significant progress has been made in terms of economic and budgetary consolidation, in participation and transparency, as well as in the computerization of the City Council, in tourism offer, including the dynamics of use of our museums, etc.
But it is necessary to go further in the transformation of our locality and in the improvement of civic life, above all in policies of employment, housing, social spending, diversified agriculture with agri-food industry, integrated tourism, sustainable, etc. We can more It is necessary that never and the candidacy we present assume the challenge of this need, adding to the institutional experience of Pilar, the renewal impulse of a group of people committed to our city and whose life trajectories express a broad social plurality. "
We can is here!
Source: Podemos Cieza