The national leadership of Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista (NC-BC) has held a meeting with the members of the Island Executive Committee of the organization in Lanzarote in order to explain the organic process towards the VI National Congress next July.
The national president of the Canaristas, Román Rodríguez, has explained to his colleagues in Lanzarote the pre-congress process, from the established calendar to the reason for the different presentations that have been commissioned to coordinate different members of the organization. In addition, he has highlighted "the participation of all affiliates and militants in this process and their ability to decide, among all, the ideas, the structure and the direction".
For her part, Carmen Hernández, vice president of NC-BC, was in charge of explaining the main lines of the ideological presentation that she herself coordinates. She pointed out that "they are working on a document that reflects on the political and social context at an international and Canarian level, the need to articulate true country governance, the importance of the geopolitical situation of the Canary Islands as an African Archipelago, and the ideological bases of the Canarian left as a method to confront the rise of the extreme right".
In addition, she pointed to the presentation on feminism and youth, coordinated by the Majorera deputy Natalia Santana and the journalist Carlota Guerra respectively, as an expression of the importance that equality and renewal will take in the new stage of the Canarian organization.
Luis Campos, national spokesperson, shared with his colleagues some ideas about the statutes presentation, giving importance to "the need to go to a more transversal, participatory and national organization". He hinted that "there will be significant changes in the new functioning of NC-BC, and that they are working to reinforce the value of militancy and political activism".
Total support from Lanzarote to the national leadership
The president of NC-BC in Lanzarote and La Graciosa, Yoné Caraballo, conveyed to his colleagues in the national leadership "the support of the Lanzarote Island Executive Committee", and thanked them for defending "the presence in equal conditions of the rest of the islands in the national bodies" in the negotiation process with the 'dissidents' of Gran Canaria, an issue that was questioned by some of the mayors who have left NC-BC.
For Caraballo, "defending the representation of the non-capital islands and Tenerife in the decision-making bodies of NC-BC is fundamental to build a truly plural project with a Canarian vision. It is not pleasant that a minority intends to exclude its own colleagues for the mere fact of wanting to control the congress process and rig the result".
"We ask the national leadership to reinforce the presence of all the islands in the party's bodies to shield themselves in the future from small dictators who want to break with the rules of the democratic game", says Yoné Caraballo.
