Let me first clarify that I am writing these lines as a resident of Teguise, Conejero, and Canarian to avoid confusion and misunderstandings.
I was quite astonished today to read the indignant statements of the "Madam" President of the Popular Conejero party regarding the words of the Canarian and defender of his land, Pedro Hernández.
I am astonished to see how respect is demanded from the same seat from which Mrs. Pérez disrespected several thousand people (I will not argue further about the number with those who were not there to count them) concerned about our island and its future. The same person who presides over the party that accused those thousands of us of protesting with sandwiches or batucadas.
THAT IS A LACK OF RESPECT AND A FASCIST STANCE, MRS. PÉREZ!!
Enough with demagoguery, half-truths, and trying to deceive people with figures, inventions, and who knows how many more tricks. You, your boss Soria, and those who follow you should stop disrespecting us and putting up smokescreens for those of us who defend a position. Don't take us for fools. You are the one disrespecting us when you cheer on those who say they are happy, yesterday, about a ruling that mortgages not only our future but also that of our children and grandchildren.
Learn to respect us and fulfill your obligations as a parliamentarian and those of your fellow senators, parliamentarians, and deputies to defend the people and the wills that placed you in that seat. It would be easy to use your same thesis of counting those who do not attend demonstrations to say that the majority of citizens are in favor of the explorations to affirm that the majority of the citizens of Lanzarote (those who voted for the PSOE, the PIL, the Canarian Coalition, AC, the PNL, NC, or those who did not vote) have decided that the Popular Party does not represent us, but I prefer not to engage in your same demagoguery.
Accept the mandate of our people and fight for our rights and the future of our island, or "GET OUT OF HERE, MADAM." And please don't call my words Fascist or xenophobic. They are just a Canarian expression that we use around here when we feel ignored, vilified, not represented by our leaders, and disrespected by you, Mr. Soria, part of your party, and the absolute majority of the Congress of Deputies.
Attitudes like yours and Mr. Soria's make me more convinced every day of the need for a Canary Islands with greater capacity to decide its future with autonomy and away from the treatment of the last Spanish colony to which your party (or at least part of it) wants to subject us.
Echedey Eugenio
