There are only 95 days left for the municipal elections and Arrecife already smells of change, hope, desire, and shared efforts to return the city to the people of Arrecife.
There is and will be a lot of external noise, the numerous eccentricities of a disarmed PSOE in a kind of hydra that bites itself, the ideological aimlessness of Somos Lanzarote that negotiates with a state and communist party and reaches an agreement with a party in which its coordinator was a candidate for the Popular Party, the scandals of Podemos, and the internal noise of the PP, to make a very brief summary that helps us to contextualize, make us foresee that a cloud of toxicity will not let us see the decent and coherent proposals that are going to be made.
I am more in favor of a friendly, positive debate, of exchanging ideas and proposals that help the youngest to think that politics is something else, that does not understand the so-called concepts "new politics vs old politics", that what politics is about, at least from my point of view, is to believe in order to create, to work for better things to exist, and that coherence, respect and, above all, political hygiene, is something that does not understand young people, men, women, new parties or old.
In politics, in any scenario, it is more important to propose than to impose, to listen than to fight, and that is what municipal politics lacks; the maturity that political parties are supposed to have. Although perhaps they are not to blame, but those who integrate and coordinate them.
We have reached a point where politics suffers from politicians, and here there is no room for divisions and axes of new/old/young/man/woman, etc. What matters is common sense and what politics matters to you, and I at least am in love with it.
Arrecife needs leaders who truly believe in what they do, who dignify politics, who do not continue to mistreat it, who have their ideological sketches of the city, but that these are not rigid but flexible in order to reach agreements that allow Arrecife to get out of ostracism.
What Arrecife needs is a debate of friendly ideas, which generate enthusiasm in citizens because they are the engine of politics. Or is politics not everything?
By David Toledo Niz,
General Secretary of the Nationalist Youth of the Canary Islands
