José Miguel Barragán revalidated this Sunday the position of General Secretary of the Canarian Coalition within the framework of the VI National Congress of the Canarian Coalition held at the INFECAR facilities in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The election of Barragán's candidacy resulted in 542 'yes' votes, 19 blank votes and 87 'no' votes, which represents 76.8% of the total number of delegates with the right to vote who exercised their right.
The team that will accompany Barragán from now on in the national leadership is made up of Guadalupe González Taño as National Secretary of Organization; David de la Hoz Fernández as National Deputy Secretary of Coordination and Strategy; Rosa Dávila Mamely as National Deputy Secretary of Sectoral Policies and Beatriz Calzada Ojeda, as Deputy Secretary of Territorial Coordination; in addition to including Héctor Suárez Morales, Sara Arteaga Darias, Narvay Quintero Castañeda, Isaac Godoy and Briand López González, as National Executive Secretaries, pending the assignment of organic responsibility.
The work team of the National Executive Commission endorsed by the delegates in the Plenary also includes twenty members representing each of the Islands: Soraya Brito Naranjo, Mateo Ramón de la Cruz, Candelaria Díaz Cazorla, María Coromoto Yanes González, Nieves Lady Barreto Hernández, Marcos J. Lorenzo Brito, Dolores García Martínez, Enrique Soler Ramos, Carmen Vega Macías, Melisa Armas Pérez, María del Mar Julios Reyes, Fernando Bañolas Bolaños, Tania Torres Hernández, Ignacio Moreno Marichal, Alfredo Hernández Gutiérrez, Milagros del Valle Padrón, Maryan Méndez Hernández, Narvay Quintero Castañeda, Consuelo Rivero Guerrero and Beatriz Trujillo Trujillo. This management team is the result, according to Barragán, "of a renewal process in which we also wanted to take advantage of the experience of people who know the project from the inside and the new people who are joining. With the latter we want to start generational changes, but not only in this executive, but in the entire structure of the party in the next island congresses".
This VI National Congress of the Canarian Coalition has "placed a lot of emphasis on the self-criticism that we had been making for two years and where we had the objective of improving the party. The latest electoral warnings showed us that we had electoral support, that we were able to govern in councils, town halls and the autonomous community, but that even so many militants were not voting for us and a significant number of voters were deciding on other political options", explained José Miguel Barragán.
That internal reflection process began with the Canarias 20 Conference and has been now, with the celebration of the VI National Congress of CC, "when we have transferred that line of work to the presentations of the Congress", warns the new General Secretary of CC, who was pleased to have found "a National Congress in a positive key and that truly believes in the reconnection process that the party wants to address. We know that some things need to be improved in relation to the internal structure and, for that reason, we have adjusted some details so that the party is an instrument that has a real connection with society. We intend to listen more; hear better to act appropriately in the institutions".
The four presentations dedicated to specific policies have been, in the opinion of José Miguel Barragán, "fundamental in this Congress. For us it is very important to work to eradicate the poverty that exists in the Archipelago and that has to be done with employment policies because we want people to have the opportunity to work. The possibility of further internationalizing the Canarian economy has also been taken into account so that we can be a reference point in the mid-Atlantic, in addition to being able to promote what we call the third modernity of the Canary Islands. Innovation is entering through the doors and windows and we have to adapt quickly to that situation. The fact that the agricultural sector is raising the GDP when we had been lowering it for years is a symptom that things can be done differently".
The Canarian Coalition emerges from this National Congress as a much more cohesive party. "We needed a work team. What other parties do is appoint their general secretaries and it seems that they consider the problem solved. In our case, we strongly believe in the structure that we are an Archipelago, we are eight islands and we have to attend to all those realities". The fact that the Congress gave the General Secretary freedom to form his team of executive secretariats "has been very positive. In the work plan that we will begin in a few weeks there is even the possibility of increasing to three more national executive secretariats than I have appointed today. In the end, it is about making a team that works for the party", concludes José Miguel Barragán.
All the information regarding the VI National Congress of the Canarian Coalition can be consulted and downloaded from the website www.coalicioncanaria.com, including the Political and Management Report of the Canarian Coalition presented on the first day of the Congress Plenary by the General Secretary of the Canarian Coalition, José Miguel Barragán, as well as the final text of the six presentations approved by the plenary of the VI National Congress of CC.
