Since the beginning of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, the machinery of the political parties has eroded the influence and weight of the island territory, centralizing legislative and budgetary activity, and condemning the political development of the Canary Islands to a board limited by the centers of power of the parties in Gran Canaria and Tenerife. The insular influence is blurred from Canarian politics, except when the arithmetic of governability forces concessions in the form of benefits such as the budgetary doping experienced by Casimiro Curbelo in half of this legislature that perishes.
Lanzarote is no stranger to that system. Despite having tripled the population since 1982, having exponentially multiplied our Gross Domestic Product, or being a very important pole of economic, cultural and social development, Lanzarote continues to be a shy guest to the autonomous budgets, and to the legislative activity in the Parliament of the Canary Islands. The influence of the deputies elected by Lanzarote and La Graciosa is reduced to blind support for the dictates of their parties, and the starts of Lanzarote's insularity that are remembered in the recent history of the Parliament of the Canary Islands are anecdotal and inconsequential.
It is not understandable that on an island with the deficiencies in basic services that Lanzarote and La Graciosa have, the deputies of CC, PSOE and PP have supported during this legislature, and without any blush, budgets that clearly hinder the necessary development of our island. The list of grievances that appear in the debit of the account of the Government of the Canary Islands with Lanzarote and that have passed without pain or glory through the Parliament during this legislature is extensive: radiotherapy bunker, hemodynamics unit, improvement of the health card, Maneje institute, end to the policy of barracks, improvement of the budgetary allocation for Lanzarote, etc?
This May 26 should serve as a turning point in this sad dynamic. Lanzarote must be heard, it is necessary to recover specific weight in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, to be able to unbalance the axis on which Canarian politics gravitates towards its eastern slope, and that Lanzarote begins to have influence on what is decided in the Canary Islands. The next elections should be key for the island, qualifying the representation of Lanzarote in Parliament, deciding on a representation without tutelage, and serving as a counterweight to the centralist framework in which the Coalition Canaria Government has converted this land. Not a single budget, and not a single law more that does not contemplate the people of Lanzarote and their demands.
Borja Rubio, candidate for the Parliament of the Canary Islands for Somos Lanzarote ? Nueva Canarias
