Arrecife, the most fashionable city in the Canary Islands, and not because it has definitively established itself as the third capital of the Canary Islands, nor because it is the envy in institutional management.
The discourse of toxic and negative Arrecife is in each of the 17 neighborhoods that make up this wonderful city. And it is true, it is, Arrecife has never been as it is at this moment; with clear deficiencies in management and leadership.
That has meant that the neediest neighbors are struggling to survive without Social Emergency Aid, that clubs have suffered a delay of more than six months in collecting sports subsidies, that citizens in general have to swallow an Avenue closed in a dictatorial manner, despite the fact that its opening has been approved three times in plenary?
With businesses being forced to abandon our city and move to neighboring municipalities; with the "culture with the curtain down", with young people without leisure or educational alternatives?.
NO, I refuse, Arrecife is not this, Arrecife is a city with enormous potential to be a reference in the Canary Islands, in the world.
The contextualization is easy, almost everything is negative, a loop of stubbornness mixed with inability in management, but the remedy is another. Desire, effort and strength, drive, capacity, enthusiasm, and work, a lot of work, positive concepts to re-educate and create a green Arrecife, because green is hope.
"Hope is never lost". Maybe I'm young and naive, or maybe age simply has nothing to do with politics; but I am convinced that it is not an ideological issue, it is about feeling like an Arrecifeño, about being hurt to see your neighborhood in precarious conditions. And, faced with that, we must all have a broad vision. Reach out, seek majority and coherent consensus, leave the politics of politicians aside and focus on the politics of the neighbors, that which understands only "listen to what we need, and try to give it the solution".
And Arrecife needs that work, that positivity, that green hope that shows everyone, that shows those of us who are immersed in this world of politics and politicians, that we have to put more of ourselves. Especially in dialogue, in the flexibility of our primary positions, in the things that unite us and not separate us.
Let's help each other and we will help Arrecife.
David Toledo Niz, General Secretary of the Nationalist Youth of the Canary Islands
