The fact that only 1.6% of citizens believe that the economic situation in our country is better than a year ago reflects the growing gap between what is perceived on the street and what the Popular Party government is unsuccessfully trying to sell us. Not even such clear evidence as that reflected in the latest CIS survey is enough for its leaders to abandon the pedestal on which they have been installed in recent years and accept that reality is built by assuming the facts and not disguising them with figures that are not credible.
It is embarrassing to see how, in their constant flight forward, they have chosen, forced by the proximity of the municipal and regional elections, to make us believe that the crisis is already history or, for example, that all the promises they made in 2011 have been scrupulously fulfilled. Neither self-criticism nor an exercise in dialogue and debate with political forces, social agents and citizen groups to not waste another second in the exercise that every country must carry out if it wants to move forward firmly and not only with timid steps that, paradoxically, are only perceived in their accounting exercises by those who have the most.
Good rulers are those who have a project for the future, those who, beyond the present, have a vision of the space they long to build. Controlling the monopoly of the Official State Gazette to cut rights, establish shortcuts or promote policies to obtain short-term results is not sufficient or desirable for a country that, beyond the present, must be able to articulate a common project that serves to create a more solid business fabric and a fairer and more balanced social architecture.
However, in these last three years we have witnessed a political process marked by the entrenchment of the president and his ministers in their respective offices, from which they have drawn their policies with a disturbing coldness and an undesirable insensitivity in times when citizens expect much more closeness from those who represent them and who, to a large extent, have in their hands the possibility of appeasing the pain that many suffer.
Never before have we faced such a changing scenario in our democracy. The breach of promises has fueled political disaffection and, in the coming months, various electoral processes will be held in which, predictably, there will be a significant change in the composition of parliaments and in the governability of local administrations.
It is a process that we are going to face with the certainty that the changes that are coming will contribute to strengthening the democratic structure and to closing the wounds that have caused a growing distance between citizens and their political representatives. And this change must be faced by showing our faces, being an active part in decision-making, in the search for solutions, and not clinging to an obsolete and outdated political model.
Faced with those who insist on living off their income, we will once again present ourselves to the citizens with an exciting project. A project in which there will be no siren songs, but a lot of responsibility, a lot of desire to continue working for the future of the Canary Islands and a lot of self-criticism.
Faced with those who live in a glass bubble and refuse to listen to what citizens are demanding, we will propose open forums to guarantee the enrichment of the program that we will propose for the coming years. It will not be an easy task, but I have no doubt that by opening our headquarters, promoting dialogue and facing this new challenge with a critical vision, we will be able to build a political project capable of assuming the challenges posed by society and that citizens are strongly demanding.
We have before us the challenge of generating a new dream through a political project that is capable of reinventing itself and generating illusion again, empathizing with the population and explaining our ideology through open meetings, or on social networks themselves. People are tired of listening, they want to talk. And we will be there, as we have always done, to move forward together in this new and exciting political and social stage.
Ana Oramas, deputy of the Canarian Coalition
