In my capacity as an active nationalist militant, I recognize the complex peculiarities of the upcoming elections to the General Courts of the State and the apparent disadvantage of the Canarian nationalist model today, marked by internal local, island and regional differences. We have little time to recover and look with a high-minded view to the State and Europe, make an effort and come together bringing together the different sensibilities and increase our presence in Madrid.
Reviewing the data on the trajectory of the Canarian Coalition and other nationalist groups in the State, they are marked by a long list of advantageous achievements initiated in the 1993 legislature when CC burst into the "congressional political arc of the State", or those of the year 2000, and even the most recent one, the one that is now ending where we have set trends and important advances have been achieved for the Canary Islands. We have contributed to shaping and giving stability to the State within a fragmented parliament, our natural idiosyncrasy as Canarians, our astuteness has given us the ability to identify with the deputies necessary to give majorities to both Governments of the State.
I recognize that I came a little late to politics, but I learned. I have experienced the importance of municipalism and island politics. Lanzarote is the third most populous island, we have incorporated a high contingent of people into the labor market from all corners of the world to whom we have welcomed and integrated and trained in a multicultural territory. I have carried out pedagogy, training and instructing generations of people bringing them closer to the "Canarian Identity", showing their culture and their heritage.
The Canary Islands now has 8 realities to represent in Madrid, each island with its idiosyncrasies, its values, its differences. We can only move forward from consensus. The people who live and work in Lanzarote can contribute a lot to the State and to Europe. Our nationalist model is inclusive and seeks to do politics with your help, with your voice, with your participation so that the Canary Islands are represented by people who know well the reality of each of the corners of our islands, who do not have to obey and depend on parties that practice decontextualized policies. To assert with our presence in the Congress and in the Senate the rights that we have and that have been so recently recognized to us, such as the new Autonomous Statute and the new Economic and Fiscal Regime, our longed-for tools to defend the interests of the Canary Islands, the territorial space of those who live and fight for it.
By Carmen Rosa Márquez Aguilar, candidate to the Congress of Deputies for the Canarian Coalition.
