One of the most relevant news in Canarian politics of 2006 has been, without a doubt, the rapprochement and then the electoral agreement between the Canarian Coalition and the Canarian Nationalist Party. It has not gone unnoticed ...
One of the most relevant news in Canarian politics of 2006 has been, without a doubt, the rapprochement and then the electoral agreement between the Canarian Coalition and the Canarian Nationalist Party. It has not gone unnoticed by the media, but I think that the media or historical importance that the effort made by both political formations deserves has not been given to it. Perhaps it is necessary to remember some data to properly assess the event.
In 1976, in the midst of political transition, the Canarian Popular Party (PPC) was created by Juan Pedro Dávila and Bernardo Cabrera, who maintained their independence and who energetically and enthusiastically raised the autonomist flag.
At the same time, the Canarian Nationalist Party (PNC) was re-founded, which, in this second stage (the first in Cuba, being inspired by Secundino Delgado and founded by Cabrera Díaz in 1924), was promoted by Domingo Salas and Llarena. Both political formations merged in 1979, preserving the most historical denomination of PNC, in which multiple incorporations occurred, such as those of Miguel Ángel Barbuzano, José Joaquín Díaz de Aguilar, José Emilio García Gómez or the person who subscribes, among others.
In February 1982, a few days before the celebration of the Constituent Congress for the new PNC, a deep ideological divergence was unleashed, splitting a large group of militants in a very important way. Some of them do not continue in political life, but others do, because between 1983 and 1985 they joined island groups, promoting a new political formation, the Federation of Independent Groups of the Canary Islands, the AIC, with a clear nationalist vocation. Meanwhile, the PNC celebrates its Congress and continues its political activities.
Between the years 1987 and 1990 the evolution between the AIC and the PNC is divergent, but from 1991 a clear rapprochement begins with ideological convergences that reach their fullness in the spring of 1993, when both formations decide to participate, as founding members, in a new nationalist project, Canarian Coalition, together with ICAN, CCN and AM. In the 1995 elections, all of them compete under the CC acronym.
At the end of 1998, the PNC, due to ideological differences, abandoned the Canarian Coalition and presented itself to the 1999 elections with a new formation, the Canarian Nationalist Federation, FNC, and they also did so in the 2003 elections.
Now there is a new, and I hope permanent, rapprochement, sponsored by its current leaders, Juan Manuel García Ramos and Paulino Rivero, achieving an agreement to jointly attend the imminent regional and local elections. This agreement indicates an ideological similarity that allows us to hope that the definitive unity of Modern Canarian Nationalism will be achieved after 30 years of intimate coexistence, with ups and downs and some misgivings. The common project of both formations requires adding wills and efforts among all.
The importance of this agreement lies in the fact that the reunion between the two basic ideological concepts of Canarian nationalism occurs: "from the Archipelago to the Islands", the cornerstone of the PNC, to the conceptual link of the Canarian Coalition, "from the Islands to the Archipelago". This ideological reunion of both formations implies definitively assuming that we are a single territory, composed of islands and sea, in which a single People, the Canarian, is based, who owns its own horizons and can thus be respected in the concert of nations.
