More than half of the islanders, specifically 52.1%, feel as Canarian as they do Spanish, according to the Sociobarometer of the Canary Islands study published this Saturday, which shows that only 1.5% of respondents are on the radical left or the far right.
Regarding nationalist sentiment, 37.2% of the people asked consider themselves more Canarian than Spanish, 5% declare themselves only Canarian, 3.2% feel more Spanish than Canarian, and 4.8% only Spanish.
Here, the greatest feeling of Canarian identity is found in La Gomera (46.4%) and Fuerteventura (42.6%), being more attenuated in the islands of Gran Canaria and Lanzarote, both tied at 35.5%.
31.3% of Canarians Demand Greater Autonomy
When asked about the territorial organization of the Spanish State, two years after the approval of the Statute reform, 45.2% are satisfied with the current degree of autonomy of the archipelago, while 31.3% demand greater autonomy.
For its part, 3.4% are in favor of an independent state, and below 10% would like autonomy to be cut or eliminated.
1.5% are in the Ideological Extremes
On the other hand, only 1.5% of the islanders are located in one of the two ideological extremes.
Thus, on an axis with values from 0 to 10 where 0 represents the extreme left and 10 the extreme right, the Canarian citizenry is mostly located at an intermediate point with a value of 4.6, which represents a moderate center-left position.
In both ideological extremes, within the margins found between 0 and 1 represented by the radical left and in the values from 9 to 10 as the far right, only 1.5% of the sample is located on these edges.
