Modern Canarian Nationalism does not have as a necessary, immediate or essential horizon what is currently called "sovereignism", but the well-being of our people, the happy development of our people, with their ...
Modern Canarian Nationalism does not have as a necessary, immediate or essential horizon what is currently called "sovereignism", but the well-being of our people, the happy development of our people, with their customs and ways of life, both those born in the Islands and those who have freely decided to live with us and help collective development. The right to peace of our people is incorruptible.
The current President of the Canarian Community, Paulino Rivero, recently stated that "nothing will be the same in the Archipelago after the current global economic crisis and, therefore, it is essential to advance in the application of structural measures to strengthen the new model, and that the Government tries and will continue to be committed to achieving unity, not only of the political class, but of all social and economic agents to face this difficult period of crisis together."
I believe that it is an invitation and almost a mandate to the militants and sympathizers of Modern Canarian Nationalism for the cooperation of all, in this exciting project of inhabiting this land, fully developed, in peaceful coexistence. There is, and should be more, a tenacious and permanent effort to bring the Islands and their inhabitants closer together and to unite them, forgetting "our lawsuits" provincial and townspeople. As our wise peasants always said, "never the cart before the oxen."
This is a basic objective and an affordable and immediate horizon for Modern Canarian Nationalism: to make the Canaries a single people, through the consolidation of a common collective feeling, "Canarianness."
"These reflections are dedicated to that unity" is the last sentence of the epilogue of the book "Intrahistory of Canarian Nationalism," by Juan Manuel García Ramos, president of the PNC. In a recent article, "Defend the Canary Islands", referring to the imminent elections, in which the electoral coalition CC-NC-PNC is presented under the slogan "United for the Canary Islands", Román Rodríguez, president of Nueva Canarias (NC), reiterates the great success of jointly attending these elections with a global program that responds to all our current problems.
We will achieve the rest by "addition", depending directly on the needs and demands of our people, but with a condition that is inexcusable, permanently respecting their will, freely expressed.
Therefore, neither sovereignism, nor anti-sovereignism, but the highest possible levels of self-government in each circumstance. Cánovas del Castillo said that "politics is the art of applying in each era of History that part of the ideal that circumstances make possible."
That is, greater spaces for own decision through which the Canaries can shape our future. Another question would be that they blocked the doors of development and we lost respect as citizens in the concert of peoples. Then, the people of the Archipelago would freely decide their horizons. Reiterating that peace and well-being is an inalienable right of all.
I conclude with some not very well-known verses by the Canarian federalist Nicolás Estevanez (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 1838-Paris 1914):
All my love, and although it is much
I wish it were more,
I keep it, for my islands,
for the Teide and for the sea.