In these days, the local, island or national congresses of almost all political formations with representation in the island institutions of Conejera are approaching, and seeing the panorama it seems that everything is reduced to a "more of the same".
In these days, the local, island or national congresses of almost all political formations with representation in the island institutions of Conejera are approaching, and seeing the panorama it seems that everything is reduced to a "more of the same". We politicians are obfuscated in raising power struggles instead of giving them the added value of reflecting and changing things.
Congresses, far from constituting a pitched battle between one and the other, must be transformed into the framework of a healthy debate that gives life to the parties. They must constitute the answer to questions such as what future do we want for our Land, what is the model of the Canary Islands or Lanzarote, and therefore that of a political formation that aspires to govern it, and not be limited to a simple Who is in charge now?
The Nationalist youth of Lanzarote understand that the time has come to reinvent the Canarian Coalition. As a good reflection of society, parties have to evolve and maintain contact with citizens. We must be the reflection of what is thought in the street and not try to reflect in the street what we think in the offices.
We understand the Canary Islands as a unique and different but disaggregated territory and, in that sense, the consolidation of the Canarian Coalition brand in Lanzarote and the Canary Islands must be focused. Why question ourselves now who should or should not occupy the National presidency and not go further and question whether the figure of the presidency is necessary?
It could turn out that we should study another party model in which the head has only a representative and organizational character and not of iron and immovable leadership. Building a political project in the Canary Islands is complicated due to our archipelago condition, even more so when we have two provinces where the island dispute has not managed to be eradicated and the tensions between the center and the periphery will always be present.
All this together with a detachment, more than justified, from the country to which we belong complicates the situation a lot. In this, our context, we must design a party project with the clear idea of what internal political system we want to aspire to. There are many party models but none can be exported in its entirety due to our singularities.
We believe that the Canarian Coalition should follow a model where the separation and delimitation of power is a vertical division, integrating the so-called minor islands through territorial autonomy of a municipalist base. Unity, integration and territorial autonomy must be the bases that allow us to define the dying nationalism in which we find ourselves, a nationalism that needs to be reformulated to adapt to the demands of a society with these increasingly rooted principles. In our opinion, we have to give a political project format to our party structure.
Youth is often blamed for inexperience as a handicap to overcome, but more than that, we are convinced that this inexperience constitutes the opportunity to change things. Because if it did not exist, we would be condemned to a continuity line in which others are already immersed.
In a few weeks we will celebrate the National Congress of the Canarian Coalition, and great debates are predicted in it, and why not say it, great disputes to hold control of the party. But we hope and trust that we can go further to mark an immediate future in which above all is the interest of the Canarians and the future of our Land.
Let's hope it serves for something more than to see which island has more or less power, or who are the ones who arrive with a well-articulated strategy. May it really serve for what a congress should serve: to define a project that marks and is capable of settling definitively in Canarian society and improving its future.
