David Toledo wonders aloud, in a serious tone, why so many insular parties are emerging. What has Coalición Canaria done wrong that they don't want to be under its umbrella?
Seriously, David? Are you asking that now? It's like an arsonist asking why there are fires on the island.
Coalición Canaria has been acting as the opening act for the Partido Popular for years, agreeing with them in regional governments, island councils, and city councils like someone renewing their phone contract: without reading it, but with permanence. And now that many voters and former members are turning their backs on them, they offer not self-criticism, but nostalgia. A crocodile tear with public office.
CC, that cardboard nationalism
While Coalición Canaria claims to defend the Canary Islands, it hands over governance to the most rancid and centralist right-wing without batting an eye. It agrees with the PP in everything, and where the PP doesn't reach, it opens the door to Vox as if they were distant cousins with new suits.
But of course, when the insular parties decide to walk freely —out of dignity, out of coherence, out of political mental health—, then David Toledo wonders what they have done wrong.
Spoiler: everything.
A record that not even in the true crime section
If we talk about the legacy of Coalición Canaria, you have to put on latex gloves. We are talking about the party of Las Teresitas, of the Mamotreto, of the sale of public land, of business with private clinics, of urban planning as a red carpet for developers, and of a clientelist vision of power that would make a banana republic pale.
And now they come with a discourse of unity, of nationalism, of "umbrella".
Look, gentlemen of CC: people have been getting wet for years with your leaky umbrella. And the worst thing is that you knew it.
Coalición Canaria does not unite. It colonizes.
The insular parties do not leave because they are disloyal. They leave because CC absorbs them, neutralizes them and throws them away when they are no longer useful. As happened with the PNC. As happened with the bases that tried to oxygenate a tainted party. There is no internal democracy, nor ideological renewal: there is political survival and armchairs.
Toledo does not want nationalist unity. He wants a monopoly. That everything that smells of Canarian identity goes through his office. As if the archipelago were a farm with a tricolor flag.
Unnecessary epilogue, but necessary:
CC's thing is not nationalism.
It's salon marketing.
It is the Canarian version of the PP with accent and folklore.
And in the end, as I have always said:
Coalición Canaria is the PP with a timple.
