An ideological attack

July 12 2019 (17:30 WEST)

How, when, and why did the first two classic axes of ideology begin to be defined? Well, what started as just a reflection of a situational spatial location in the French National Assembly of 1789, left and right of the session hall, has ended up being a global and local conception of how to think and act. Therefore, it is not easy to understand the medium-term situation of the Canary Islands.

We are living in times of increasing political disaffection fostered by an economic crisis that began around 2008, and that led to a fragmentation of the political landscape with the movements and births of new political formations in 2015, which showed that different ideologies were gaining strength to combat the two-party system through new ideas, values, and conceptions about the management of public funds. Seen what has been seen, waste of paper.

Ideology is the cornerstone on which politics is born. Without it, it would never have existed. An ideology, in this sense, is a system of thought that is composed of a set of ideas or principles on which a particular way of seeing and approaching reality is based. It is also a set of feelings that, interacting with the way of thinking and understanding the collective functioning from an individual perspective, are articulated in tools of change and transformation, that is, political parties.

A premise about the function of ideologies is that changes occur through them, while when they are lacking, there is no possible change. Now let's transfer this to the Canary Islands, to the local, and to the future of the concept of governability.

The Canary Islands has become an anti-natural hotbed of classic political parties with clearly differentiated ideologies, with very different ways of understanding the local and global, and with those new political parties that were born from the bad practices of the classics, with their theses of ideological purity and unbreakable principles that have surprisingly embraced the mere fact of settling in institutions, as if this chimera were trivial, as if the institutions were not the engines of the citizens' well-being. 

I find it very difficult to understand how ways of understanding management and local, island, and national development are going to agree.

 The pact formed by the PSOE and the PP in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, surprising to say the least, will be difficult for the citizen to understand when, for example, the General Plan for Territorial Planning has to be approved. How are they going to agree, when they have been criticizing each other's way of understanding it for years? What will two opposing parties do when it comes to understanding and distributing the territory?, Or will they paralyze it again?

 And in the Arrecife City Council, PP, PSOE, NC AND SOMOS LANZAROTE, are they going to reach an agreement on the Ginory Land, or on the expropriation of land on the Islote del Francés?

If we look at Fuerteventura, how are PSOE, AEPR, NC, PODEMOS and CIUDADANOS (these parties of ideological cleanliness) going to manage the institution in the Puerto del Rosario City Council? Do PODEMOS and CIUDADANOS think the same in terms of equality, social rights, LGTBI criteria?

In the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council, and in the Island Council, after the motions of censure of PSOE, CIUDADANOS AND PODEMOS, will they be able to approve the budgets, the general plan, the conception and economic management of the development companies? 

And in the Cabildo of La Palma, PP and PSOE, again with a motion of censure, with a president and councilors who are defectors, will they carry the weight of an island of 80,000 inhabitants to a good port? Isn't it supposed that the PSOE did not govern with defectors?

And in the Government of the Canary Islands, PSOE, NC, PODEMOS AND ASG, will they be able to articulate a government that legislates with common sense, that guarantees governability and governance? And what will PODEMOS say now about the Land Law?, or will ASG not care if it is touched? Aren't these parties supposed to not govern with defendants?, there are several examples in all these local and island pacts.

Politics cannot be understood without ideology and political parties cannot turn their backs on their statutes, their affiliates, their voters to make everything valid with democratic arithmetic. Because when this is done, those who suffer the local paralysis, the setback and the inaction are the citizens of the Canary Islands. I don't like this. 

In short, I am very concerned about the situation in the Canary Islands, I am concerned about the unease and the ideological buying and selling. PSOE, PP, PODEMOS, CIUDADANOS AND NC have sold their identity, the being for which they were born. They must make the reflection.  

 

*David Toledo Niz, General Secretary of the Nationalist Youth of the Canary Islands

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