The model currently adopted regarding the composition of the Parliament of the Canary Islands is called Triple Parity. For those who do not know what it consists of, it is a model of seat distribution in the hemicycle, which are granted as follows:
1st Parity: Same number of deputies per capital islands (15 each)
2nd Parity: Same number of deputies per province (30 each)
3rd Parity: Same number of deputies, capital islands and peripheral islands (30 each)
This distribution clearly benefits the non-capital islands in terms of investments due to the level of representation where decisions that matter to all of us are made. And I explain it "chewed up", because many citizens ask me about the topic and claim their ignorance, so I allow myself the license to explain it in the best way I know.
In any case and given this reality, what is intended is to de facto change the numbers that until now and since its constitution were adopted, for a new model that, after all, comes to be, -and I repeat it "minced"-, a change in the number of territorial representatives in which the capital islands would increase, therefore losing the peripheral islands, as they call us.
If even now, with the current territorial representation, we are receiving what is left over from the larger islands, -a matter also to be resolved-, with a smaller representation, who assures me that the distributions will not be made in the same way. We are really leaving an open flank to the gradual reduction in investment and resources in the peripheral islands compared to the gradual increase in the capital islands.
I think we should all react as a people, yes, react as we did with the unanimous no to oil, with forcefulness, with a clear voice to fight for what is ours, for what belongs to us. I don't hear the other deputies for Lanzarote in the chamber fighting for it. And in our case, the Island of La Graciosa, what qualification do they give it? Ultraperipheral?? Unfortunately, our society will hardly remember what is said here, but they will remember what they did for Lanzarote.
On the contrary, there is the paradox that reality passes in an irrelevant way before our eyes, since the triple parity has never been exercised as it is written, because in all political parties decisions of a certain depth, the inexorable discipline of the vote is applied, which brings with it results, not good but less bad than democracy and citizens deserve.
In short, these new winds become a real nonsense for Lanzarote, which will bring with them even greater challenges that will have to be faced and fought as it characterizes us, with claw. In the same way, I believe, every day with meaning, that a change towards new political thinking is necessary for the population. A change in which the citizen and their interests prevail, sharing with those who put us there, the possible solutions to the different controversial problems, with new and more logical rules of the game.
By Oswaldo Betancort