Last Friday, Nueva Canarias Lanzarote held its First Island Meeting at the mythical Sociedad de Cultura, Recreo y Deporte Torrelavega, where more than 200 attendees gathered, including supporters, affiliates, guests and individuals.
The canaristas gathered at this meeting to close the municipal implementation in Lanzarote, which began in May 2021 with the constitution of the Local Committee of San Bartolomé after the already long-lived Committee of Arrecife, the Local Committee of Teguise in July 2021 and Haría in October of that same year, concluding with the recently constituted Local Committee of Tías, where Arminda Barreto will be the new spokesperson.
"We were entrusted with implementing the NC project in all the municipalities; today we can say that we are prepared to face the elections of May 2023 with solvency," said Servando Pérez Dorta, who will be in charge of coordinating the Electoral Committee of the organization in Lanzarote.
At the meeting, the different local spokespersons took the floor, who shared the strength of the NC project in Lanzarote and La Graciosa through the idea of "Island-Home".
"The Island-Home that we defend is not simply a slogan, but an imagined, achievable and desirable island, where all of us who reside here can live in happiness, with tranquility and care," explained Yone Caraballo, spokesperson for the Local Committee of Teguise and Island Secretary of Welfare.
For his part, Armando Santana reminded his colleagues who are no longer there, but who helped to constitute the embryo of NC in Lanzarote. "A memory to all those who have contributed their grain of sand to make NC today a strong organization with the capacity to govern this island and the Canary Islands."
Carmen Nieves Gaspar, National Secretary of Development for Self-Government, and member of the organization in Tenerife, also spoke, highlighting "the ideas and the extraordinary work" that has been carried out in Lanzarote. "They are an example for all the island assemblies," she stated.
The last intervention was by the National President of NC and Vice President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Román Rodríguez, who expressed his admiration for the "fantastic human group" that has been constituted in Lanzarote.
"Today I have heard ideas here that I have not heard for a long time. An example that NC Lanzarote is made up of people on foot with the desire to make this island a better home, with more opportunities, more public services and more humanity," Rodríguez developed.
Rodríguez also had words for the different political parties and civil organizations invited to the meeting, where he encouraged them to participate in the broad canarista space that NC represents, and which he considers "a plural and transversal political movement, which adds ideas and proposals for the progress of the Canary Islands".
Canarista Youth of Lanzarote
The First Island Meeting also served as an opportunity to constitute the youth organization of NC on the island. The Canarista Youth of Lanzarote will have organic and political autonomy, serving as thematic support for the island organization.
It will be coordinated by Silvia Delgado and Javier Franco, who highlighted the "need to seduce and attract young people to politics as a way of contributing to the common good."
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