Citizens have the perception that we live in a winter that never ends. That Europe that meant a breath of fresh air for our democracy and contributed to promoting unprecedented progress in our economy has been diluted in just a sigh by the abrupt turn imposed by the European troika to face the economic crisis with two unacceptable recipes: the "austericide" and the injection of millionaire sums into the banking system.
Citizen outrage has been advancing as the budget adjustment policies that -inevitably- have weakened the public services, have caused a generalized drop in the employment rate and have squandered the present and the future of an entire generation. Despite this such a dramatic scenario, we cannot forget that, as members of the Union Europe, we have witnessed many conquests that today run the risk of crumbling. Conquests that, although today seem so distant, we must rescue so that the EU becomes a land of opportunities for all again.
With this perspective, we are heading towards a new electoral process in the that Canarian Coalition, after the designation of its candidates, with the herreño Javier Morales as the maximum reference, is emerging, once again, as the only force political party that is presented to this important event with its own program for the Islands. A program that we are drafting jointly with the citizens, who can make their contributions until the conclusion of the elections, and with which we intend to configure a political project that includes the keys that help us build a future for all within the EU.
There are many common challenges that we share with the rest of the citizens Europeans, but there are other challenges that will require a real commitment by the community authorities so that the dream becomes a reality to which we have aspired so many times. A dream that consists of the Canary Islands being a strategic space for trade with other continents, cooperation to development, dialogue between cultures, a model for the production of energy clean, social cohesion or the strengthening of research in areas flourishing such as astrophysics.
That dream that many devised, like Adán Martín, must go from being a simple project to a tangible fact that pushes us in our transit towards a more solid and diversified economy and allows us, in turn, to be a strength for the rest of our community partners. A transit that will help us redesign an economic system that is not dependent on a monoculture and open the range to endless opportunities from what, until today, has constituted our main weakness: insularity and distance.
In the elections to be held on May 25, we will not only elect to the MEPs who will represent us in the heart of Europe in the next five years but, in addition, we will designate those who later they will have in their hand the capacity to decide who will be the next president or president of the European Commission. It is a process -until now unprecedented- in which the Canarian nationalists want to be present directly through an independent voice that stands as the spokesperson for a territory whose future cannot be left in the hands of MEPs belonging to political forces in which our territory does not occupy a single line in their electoral programs.
We face this new electoral episode with the illusion that, after May 25, the Europe of solidarity and progress will emerge again, and that we will witness the death of the Europe of sacrifices and urgent and senseless policies.
We do it with the hope that, after this winter that seems to have no end, the commitment to a more balanced social model will be reborn, the development sustainable, the search for solutions for the new generations and, in short, the resurgence of European values. Values that, against the centralism that sponsors the party that governs in Spain, also embody the Europe of the peoples, respect for diversity and the application of different policies in territories that are different. That is, at least, our goal.
Ana Oramas, deputy of the Canarian Coalition
