-Has the moment of change arrived in Santander?
The change has begun in this legislature, in which we have unlocked large contracts such as garbage or parks and gardens, we have laid the foundations for urban planning focused on what citizens want and not on what is simply put in front of them , and we have begun to dignify the city’s sports facilities. It is the beginning, but much remains to be done.
-Why does Santander need Citizens in the City Council?
To keep opening doors and windows. I am going to give you an example, La Remonta. Four years ago, the intention of building homes in that green area was kicking around. We began negotiating with the Ministry to keep the entire farm and allocate it to a large park with cultural and sports facilities. The big parties have dedicated themselves to boycotting the negotiation, in the case of the PP and PRC, or directly to going back to their old ways, as the PSOE has done by proposing 1,500 homes. With Ciudadanos being decisive, La Remonta will be what the residents want, a large park, and nothing more than that.
-What problems are pressing in the city?
The cleaning, which we hope to channel with the award this year of the new contract, the abandonment of a large part of the neighborhoods, especially the peripheral ones, which we want to redirect with the City Model and the Neighborhood Plan, or the great threat that hangs over Castilla-Hermida, with the concrete slab with which ADIF intends to bury us always with the collaboration, once again, of the big threes parties.
– What are your proposals to address these problems?
The basis of all our proposals is to defend the interests of the city above all else. We must understand each other with other administrations and not raise everything from the confrontation, but avoiding shameful transfers such as those of the slab in Castilla-Hermida. Along with this, I believe it is essential to have planning, something that Santander has historically lacked and that now with the City Model allows us to face the future with a roadmap in such a changing and uncertain context.
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