Attendance at the 'Canary Islands political challenges for the future' course is free
Tuesday's session will feature Jerónimo Saavedra Acevedo, Lorenzo Olarte Cullén and Paulino Rivero Baute
Noemí Santana Perera (Government of the Canary Islands), Inés Miranda Navarro (Cabildo de Gran Canaria), Guacimara Medina (Cabildo de Gran Canaria), and Noelia García Leal (City Council of Los Llanos de Aridane) will also participate.
The XXX Summer University of Maspalomas will bring together three former presidents of the Government of the Canary Islands and prominent women in political activity to debate the political challenges of the Canary Islands.
In these sessions, which are coordinated by Carla Antonelli, Jerónimo Saavedra Acevedo, Lorenzo Olarte Cullén and Paulino Rivero Baute will participate on Tuesday, July 5. While on Wednesday, July 6, Noemí Santana Perera, Minister of Social Rights, Equality, Diversity and Youth of the Government of the Canary Islands, will participate; Inés Miranda Navarro, Territorial Policy Advisor of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria; Guacimara Medina Pérez, Minister of Government of Culture of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, and Noelia García Leal, mayor of Los Llanos de Aridane in La Palma.
This course, in a round-table format, will be held from 17:30 p.m. to 20:30 p.m. at the San Fernando Senior Citizens' Sociocultural Center and is free of charge. Those interested can register on the website: https://www.universidadveranomaspalomas.org/materias/85/
The former presidents of the Government of the Canary Islands and the political representatives of different areas of the local, regional and state administration, will debate and reflect in a constructive manner, on the main topics of interest in Canary Islands politics and on future challenges, from their experience and their different points of view.
It will be a debate moderated by Carla Antonelli, through a series of questions, which will serve to expose different perspectives that provide solutions, with a constructive spirit, to better position the future political challenges that the Canary Islands must face.
Carla Antonelli, trans activist and actress also has extensive experience in political activity, she was the first trans woman to gain a seat as a deputy in Spain from 2011 to 2021, for the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the Madrid Assembly. She has been an activist for the rights of the LGTBIQ+ collective since 1977.
The XXX edition of the Maspalomas Summer University is organized by the City Council of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) and the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Rights, Equality, Diversity and Youth of the Government of the Canary Islands, Casa África and the Social Council of the ULPGC. Likewise, GLOBAL, Moda Cálida, Rotary International, Instituto del Cine Canarias, Fundación Parque Científico Tecnológico, CANALUZ, Primicia bookstore, RIU Hotels, Grupo Dunas, Lopesan Group, Gloria Thalasso & Hotels, Seaside Hotels and Bungalows Vistaflor collaborate.