"Do not limit the freedom of future generations more than you would be willing to accept from previous generations." This sentence by Paul Preuss should be remembered daily to prevent mistakes and indecision from mortgaging the present and the future.
Things have to change. And we have to do it by setting aside differences and getting rid of the fears that have prevented Spain from facing the challenge of opening the doors to a new and exciting political scenario through the reform of the Constitution.
Faced with the immobility that has existed every time the reform of the Magna Carta has been proposed, it is time to take action and respond with facts, and not with mere declarations of intent, to the challenges and new challenges that arise in our society. In situations of crisis - economic and political, like the current one - it is essential to appeal to the sense of State to build a reality that threatens to crack despite the imperceptible green shoots.
Citizens urge us to manage the present and the future with courage and responsibility. The same responsibility that those who have had the possibility of doing so have not exercised. In fact, both socialists and populars have contributed, with their blockade and their indecision, to the fact that the reform we demand remains an impossible due to their inability and clumsiness to promote a process that is already irreversible.
We are now entering a new political stage. A stage of transition that, in the words of Ortega y Gasset, requires a historical attitude. It is up to us, as representatives of popular sovereignty, to adopt that "historical attitude" with courage to lead a transformation that admits no further delay.
Society advances ahead of politics itself and, despite the evidence and popular clamor, the parties that have had in their hand the option of articulating a change have opted for the simplest way out: a flight forward waiting for a turn that, without a new policy, will not be possible.
They demand more transparency, more participation in political decision-making, more protagonism in the construction of a country that, in most cases, has been built behind the backs of the citizens themselves and that, little by little, has suffered a deterioration in the quality of its democracy and its own institutions. And we have two options: either we build a project in which it is worth participating actively or if everything remains the same as until now, the result will inevitably be more disaffection and more distancing.
We are living one of the most exciting stages of democracy. And we must contribute to this metamorphosis to end, as the journalist Rosa Montero writes, with "the old world and be able to invent something better."
The Senate has to be a Chamber that represents the State of the Autonomies. The territorial model requires an urgent revision to accommodate the demands of Autonomous Communities that feel mistreated by a State that, in these last two and a half years, has opted for recentralization and the paralysis of dialogue between both parties.
In our case, with regard to the Canary Islands, we cannot allow the Spanish Constitution to ignore the status of Outermost Region that the European Constitution does recognize us and that our Economic and Fiscal Regime is mandatory for the Government of Spain.
We have to be brave, show our faces, open the doors to citizen participation and let the people pronounce on a new Constitution, which is the result of dialogue and consensus. We have an opportunity so that everything does not remain the same as until now. And so that it does not continue to be so, so that this country does not become a territory of fire and ashes, we only have to do one thing: democracy, democracy and more democracy.
Democracy to reform the Constitution and democracy so that citizens can pronounce in a referendum on the country they want.
Stefan Zweig spoke in his work "Stellar Moments of Humanity" of "dramatic moments, pregnant with destiny, in which lasting decisions are concentrated in a day, in an hour or in a minute." The decisive moment is now and the lasting decisions must be agreed upon and submitted without hesitation to the verdict of those who are and will be the protagonists of the change: the citizens.
Ana Oramas, deputy of Coalición Canaria