by RAMÓN PÉREZ HERNÁNDEZ
The Canarian Electoral System (30 Deputies from the capital islands, 30 from the peripheral islands) is the result of the thoughtful action of the Canarian political forces 30 years ago, in the famous Cañadas pact [Acek Galván, Rafael Stinga, etc.]. It has been going on, although the reality set, in Lanzarote we criticize it with reason, for the satire of the Budgetary debt; the unfair unnamed items of everyone's Budget, to melt where convenient... to friends. The trickery with health difficulties; the outrageous inactivity with the cruise ship dock; with the urgent "ungrouping" of the Port Authority of Arrecife, from that of Las Palmas; the PIF; the Transports...
If you want to change the System, it is essential to invite society to an open dialogue. I do not share the forms of the "PP", "NUEVA CANARIAS", "CC" and "PSC" to change it on the fly, without contrasting authentic arguments; the intention, apparently, is to centralize power in the most inhabited, not the most territorial [3,855 km2 "minor" islands, 3,514 km2 "capital" islands]. As long as the general dialogue is not opened and the Parties do not include in their Programs the purpose of modifying the current Electoral System, the 8 Parliamentarians of Lanzarote not only should not, but, credibly, cannot vote in favor of its restrictive alteration for the Island they represent and, even less based on the fiction of due obedience, since they could incur in moral fraud. I believe that the vote received from the voters in the current electoral confrontation, was granted with reason (truth, justice), evidently, to preserve the legality coinciding in time. It is possible that if our parliamentarians assumed with rectitude the vote they admitted based on the current Canarian electoral regime, without obsessing over the metaphor of the obligatory submission, our fragmented territory could continue to be governed jointly... just like the European Union, through the Council of Ministers, in which, the vote of a German is worth 7,995,000 inhabitants and that of a Luxembourger 195,000; that is, a ¡4,000%! less. On these Islands they tear their clothes, without taking into account that the vote of a Gran Canarian is worth 46,997 inhabitants, and that of a Herreño 2,715, that is, only 1.631% less. In the Canarian Parliament, the majority is 51.67% of the 60 Deputies, that is, 31 votes. In the Council of Ministers of the European Union it is more restricted, 70%, that is, 54 votes of the 76 Ministers that compose it. Adding the votes of the 6 most populous States (306 million): Germany, France, Italy, United Kingdom, 10 votes each; Spain 8 votes and Holland 5 votes: total 53 votes, do not reach the 54 (rounding up) to which the 70 percent necessary to obtain the majority amounts. The 6 least inhabited States (41 million): Belgium, Greece and Portugal 5 votes each; Denmark and Ireland 3 votes each and 2 Luxembourg: add up to 23 votes, enough to form the "blocking minority" that would prevent the viable arbitrariness of the big States against the rights of the 6 small States.
Remember... that in the time of the lordships, the conejeros and majoreros, we had to endure the brutal coercion of the royal islands (Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma) by imposing on us the obligation to be their suppliers of cereals (wheat, barley, rye...), intimidating us to work the land as slaves to obtain meager income, cultivating even the boilers of the mountains and enduring tyrannical efforts, century after century. The caudillos of the royal lands devalued our harvests at miserable prices, also unfairly charging us the most onerous rural contribution canon in the Canary Islands and, to add insult to injury, they forbade us by law for centuries to export our cereals to other countries, despotically imposing an oppressive monopoly...
