Politics: a way to serve society

The students of the V edition of Expert Degree in Leadership and Civic Engagement of CEU-CEFAS have enjoyed the last lunch-colloquium of the year with the VOX deputy for Malaga in the Congress; speaker of the Housing and Urban Agenda Commission; and deputy speaker of the Commission of Social Rights and Consumption, Carlos Hernández Quero.

The VOX deputy began his speech by sharing his journey and personal experience and encouraged our students to continue training and to put the means to create good and strong leadership. In this sense, he explained that it is essential that they ask themselves what moves them and why it is worth defending: “to be a leader you must have a north, a center, we must have something inside that really moves us” he said.

In the same way, Hernández Quero emphasized the idea that the current political class is impoverished because it is disconnected from the citizens and does not know the reality of their needs: “politics has become a very self-referential matter and has become disconnected from the Spanish people even from the point of view of culture”, he pointed out. He went on to explain that one of the reasons that moved him to become a politician was to defend issues that were under attack, such as the family: “today, the natural, such as the family, which is in itself a good, is shown to us as a cage or a prison, and for this reason we must defend it”, the deputy affirmed.

Finally, the deputy wanted to convey to the students that in order to meet the challenges facing our citizens, politicians must experience politics as a service and, in addition, have an attitude of gratitude for the trust that citizens place in them.