A project that recovers the initial spirit

March 1 2017 (10:19 WET)

In late 1992, when I was barely 4 years old, Coalición Canaria was about to be born. A motley dish, cooked over low heat, and with disparate ingredients. The imperative need to create an egalitarian Canary Islands, far from the provincial fragmentation that the state parties had been sowing, led different sensibilities to unify to create Coalición Canaria.

Coalición Canaria was the result of the union of forces and efforts of five parties of the Canarian sphere, with an immediate result in the regional elections, where for the first time a nationalist party took over the presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands.

Today, we can proudly say that we have about 20,000 members, that we govern in the Government of the Canary Islands, in four of the seven island councils and in half of the eighty-eight Canarian municipalities.

"But it is not enough..." This was told to me by an old man, who had lived through the civil war, the transition, and the birth of Coalición Canaria. He told me that the party in which I militate was born to govern in all possible institutions, that this land needs a strong, cohesive, united nationalism. A nationalist project that recovers its initial spirit.

And he is right, as always our elders so wise, so accurate.

We need to reset ourselves, go back to the beginning, seek consensus, dialogue, identify nationalist feelings and wills and around them return to the beginning, to the end of 1992, where ideologies, objectives and goals were unified.

Canarian society needs this nationalism, which is dialoguing, without extremism, with the flexibility and intelligence necessary to place the Canary Islands where it deserves. Within Europe, next to the Spanish State, in a federalist system that adapts to the social, political, cultural and judicial demands of the 21st century, of 2017.

Coalición Canaria must set the initial objective, create a nationalist table where all local and island parties of a nationalist nature are present, where we work with a common objective, where we bring positions closer, and where the main issue to be addressed is the Canary Islands from the nationalist prism.

I have always considered that within the Canarian socio-political sphere, nationalist wills are united by more things than those that separate them. We must be able to overcome personalism, past issues, fragments of a history that does not correspond to the year we are in, and with the way of proceeding that citizens demand.

Let's involve the associationism in this, let's build bridges of dialogue with them. From cultural, folkloric, sports, social, etc. associationism; May the union make the force, and may the Canary Islands be synonymous with the transversality that we all create together.

 

Let's go back to the beginning, let's recover the initial spirit.

 

David Toledo Niz

 

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