The Nationalist Youth of the Canaries raised the first tricolor flag with eight green stars this weekend on its 54th anniversary and just one year after raising the need to represent the eighth island on the flag.
"Just a year ago, in La Graciosa, we opened a political and social debate about the inclusion of the eighth star on the national flag. Today, from Lanzarote and with the Chinijo archipelago behind us, we raise for the first time in history the national flag with its eight green stars," explained the general secretary of the Nationalist Youth of the Canaries, David Toledo Niz.
This event took place within the framework of the Second Nationalist Youth School of the Canary Islands, which was held at the Arrecife Youth Center this weekend. In it, four major presentations were presented under the slogan 'Youth connected to the municipal', among which was the proposal for the Canary Youth Law made by a study commission of the youth organization.
Youth policies in the municipal sphere and the importance of young people participating in these policies also occupied part of the program of the Second Nationalist Youth School of the Canary Islands. The milestone of the new Statute of Autonomy and political communication in the new digital scenarios were the main themes on which two of these presentations focused.
The leader of the youth of the Canarian Coalition, David Toledo Niz, declared that "the youth organization has fulfilled what was marked on its roadmap in just one year", recalling that the JNC already announced "that the Canary Youth Law was obsolete". "And we have developed a new one. We set out to open a debate for the inclusion of the eighth star, and we have done so. These are not just words, they are facts," he concluded.
