The political groups that make up the Parliament of the Canary Islands, with the exception of VOX, have presented a Bill to modify Law 20/2003, of April 28, on the Anthem of the Canary Islands, in order to adapt it to the current Statute of Autonomy and expressly recognize the eight islands of the Archipelago.
The initiative, promoted by Coalición Canaria, recalls that the 2003 Law granted the Canary Islands an official anthem and established in its annex the lyrics that accompany the melody of the Arrorró from the Cantos Canarios, a work by Teobaldo Power.
In the current text appears the verse “Divided into seven crags”, an expression consistent with the statutory framework of that time, which described the Archipelago around seven islands. However, the 2018 reform of the Statute of Autonomy officially recognized La Graciosa as the eighth island, which makes a symbolic update of the anthem necessary.
According to the signatory groups, "the 2018 modification brought with it a new institutional and social reality that speaks to us of eight islands." For this reason, they consider it appropriate to adjust the lyrics of the anthem to explicitly reflect this new reality.
The proposal has a strictly symbolic and technical-legal character, without altering the melody, the protection regime, or the use of the anthem, and without affecting other official symbols such as the coat of arms or the flag. Specifically, the reform consists of replacing the numeral "seven" with "eight" in the third verse of the poem, while the rest of the text remains unchanged.
With this modification, Parliament seeks to align a symbol of high public profile with the current Statute of Autonomy, reinforcing institutional coherence and recognizing La Graciosa in the collective imagination that the anthem projects.
