In Lanzarote, and also in municipalities like Tías, renewal processes are underway in the assemblies of Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista. This opens a new phase in which young people and new profiles are beginning to assume responsibilities, with a vocation for public service, renewed ideas, and a firm commitment to the general interest. People who enter politics with an empty backpack, unburdened, from a position of independence, honesty, and responsibility
This renewal process highlights a reality that a significant portion of the citizenry knows all too well: the existence of a political class in Lanzarote that has been living exclusively off politics for decades. People who have held positions, won elections, and served in institutional responsibilities for over thirty years, with hardly any professional experience outside of public administration and a clear dependence on their office to maintain their way of life. A way of understanding politics as a personal career rather than a temporary service to society.
It's "the usual suspects." The same names, the same speeches, and the same promises that are repeated election after election, while the structural problems of the island and of municipalities like Tías remain unresolved. A comfortable political class, stuck in inertia, that has lost the ability or the will to transform the reality it claims to represent.
I am tired of seeing, year after year, how neighbors from Tías, Lanzarote, and La Graciosa express their weariness with this way of doing politics. Tired of hearing constant criticism of those who have occupied positions of power for decades without offering real solutions, without self-criticism, and without taking responsibility for accumulated errors. But also tired of realizing how, when people willing to step forward emerge, they are questioned or discredited even before being allowed to prove their worth.
These new people – the men and women who are new – are neighbors who decide to put their time, effort, and commitment at the service of a political organization because they believe the time for change has come. People who have the necessary availability to dedicate themselves to their municipality or island and who arrive with an empty backpack and no political mortgages, precisely because they are not part of that network of interests that has been perpetuated for decades.Faced with a political class that has become entrenched in institutions, it is not only legitimate but necessary to make way for these new profiles. Not as a gesture of aesthetic renewal, but as a democratic imperative. Because indefinite permanence in power does not guarantee experience; rather, it often breeds complacency, disconnection, and resistance to changeNueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista is a political space that allows and defends this real renewal. A party of Canarian obedience where political ideas are not imposed from distant offices, but are born in the municipalities, developed from proximity, and executed here, in our land, in our homelandIn Lanzarote, and in municipalities like Tías, it is urgent to move towards a more honest, closer, and less self-interested policy. A policy exercised by free individuals, unburdened, capable of questioning privileges and putting an end to dynamics that have been harming the citizenry as a whole for too long.Change is not proclaimed, it is built. And for that change to be possible, it is essential to leave behind those who have turned politics into a way of life and to give an opportunity to those who arrive with an empty backpack and the firm conviction that another way of governing is not only possible, but necessary.
