Nobody believes in Coalición Canaria anymore. Playing on all sides is an insult to the citizens of the archipelago, they treat us as political illiterates and we are not, in fact, their analysts and advisors are closer to that than the rest of the Canarians.
You cannot be on the left and act as a neoliberal right; you cannot be ultra-Spanish in Spain and disguise yourself as an independentist in the Canary Islands. You cannot be talking about "sectors" to try to encompass the entire electorate, because we are not stupid. You cannot continue to insult the Canarian People like this.
The Canary Islands needs a dignified political option that represents this majority that makes up 99% and we are neither more nor less than workers. Some without work, most with precarious jobs, others a little better off and a few, called "self-employed" or "small business owners" who, in addition to working, bear greater responsibilities.
Neither the Spanish parties based in the archipelago, such as the PSOE, PP, etc., nor the Spanish loyalists at the service of Capital, the multinationals and the Spanish colonialist crown, provide social solutions, nor are they going to build a better future for the inhabitants of the Canary Islands.
This archipelago needs real politicians. Those who represent the majority of the People, not because they have "bought their votes" but because their political exercise corresponds to the interests of the majority: the workers.
It is a real necessity that outside the archipelago we are seen with the strength and dignity that the inhabitants of this land deserve and not as puppets of Merkel or Rajoy, not as "occasional" partners of multinationals and mere intermediaries in the most cruel worker exploitation and without the slightest social concern.
The Canary Islands needs clearly differentiated options. It needs the participation in politics of those who previously dared to call themselves "apolitical" and now understand that even if they "ignore politics" politics does not ignore them and, therefore, they pay more and more taxes, charge less and less in exchange for greater labor exploitation and lose, one after another, what are already old social rights; to the point of going back 30 years in terms of education, of seeing relatives die on the eternal waiting lists of the Health System, or being threatened with dictatorial sanctions for opening your mouth to demonstrate.
And, in the end, we only need to embolden ourselves a little and encourage ourselves to vote, to go back out into the street. But betting on the firm option that the Spanish call the independentist left, which is the only one that brings authentic dignity to this People "bought and sold" continuously by political intermediaries who, really, are not interested.
Pedro González Cánovas, member of the Canarian Nationalist Alternative
