I heard Ana Oramas say the other day that it is not a change of era but an era of change, and she is absolutely right. We live under an inefficient, anachronistic system, and I venture to say that it is almost delegitimized. A system created after a dictatorial period, in which the "fathers of the Constitution" could do little more given the circumstances that existed at that time when we were emerging from a dictatorship to try to create the foundations of a democratic system. So far, everything can be understood.
But there are things that fall under their own weight. Like the way the state of autonomies was created. "We do not know with certainty whether it is a unitary or federal State or an intermediate type. The Constitution is not defined on this point nor does it coin a distinctive name that characterizes the peculiar structure of the Spanish State, in contrast to the Constitution of 1931 which called it an "integral State". (Synopsis article 137). It is not logical that you first write a constitution which includes the political system of a state and then you pull out of your sleeve an autonomous model for that state, it is something "rare". Although I have always heard that houses do not start with the roof, it seems that the Spanish State does.
But well, it was about implementing a democratic model after a dictatorial period and it was done with the drafting of the constitution, the creation of the bicameral system, the pluralism of political parties, civic rights, expression, etc. Once the Spanish political system has been established despite its pros and cons, the first breaks in the seam begin to be seen, and the political elites begin to talk about reform.
The institutions begin to degenerate into an endless debate about their reform and end up never being reformed, until they are discredited. The Spanish state then falls into a political cynicism and a disaffection of democracy that terrifies us. It seems that the Spanish State falls into a kind of timeless turn that has teleported us to the Italy of the eighties where the situation was similar.
We then arrive at 20D and with everything that has fallen on us in more than thirty-five years of an obsolete system; What do we do? Do we continue to degenerate in this endless debate? Or are we mature enough to urge the reform of a system that is increasingly deteriorated over time?
The Canary Islands cannot fail to be in that debate, we have the obligation to agree on the State model to which we are going to turn, which is why it is so important that Canarian nationalism is in Congress and in the Senate. It is neither a tie break in the style of tennis, nor an approach in the style of golf, it is a match to the golden goal, whoever scores first wins.
Let's rewrite our present, to opt for a better future.
By David Toledo Niz, Political Scientist.
