In the Canary Islands, we swallow crises like true champions, the workers and small business owners. The large companies based in the archipelago, as always, come out stronger.
It is true that the latter has been favored by the labor policy applied by the last two Spanish governments, but the neoliberal or cacique approach of the Canary Islands government always helps. That is why in the Archipelago we suffer a structural crisis, of a society that has failed as a social project. With alarming figures from before the announcement of the crisis, worsened now with the application of its "austerity".
It is not only that we have lower salaries, pensions and aid than the average of the Spanish State. Nor is it that the percentage of people without work is scandalous in any comparison. It is that the average salary in the Canary Islands is well below the Spanish interprofessional average salary (low to the point of ridicule). Due to the high range of junk contracts, part-time, temporary, ETTs, etc. It had been a long time since one could say "poor workers" with as much reason as now.
In this land, only 0.2% of the population (4,000 people) brings together 80% of the wealth: therefore, 99.8% of us have only 20% of the wealth of the Archipelago. Isn't it time for social justice to be done and these data to be reversed? If these 4,000 people had that 20% they would still be very rich.
We have elections in sight. An evident possibility of deciding the policy that will be carried out during the next 4 years in the Canary Islands. It is clear that it is an opportunity to take a turn to the left, in favor of the working class, with its small business owners. In favor of the great majority that we make up those who, with employment, suffer the constant fear of losing it; of the people without work; of those who feel exploited and mistreated in the labor market and outside of it... This must be our turn. Nothing justifies voting for the same people again.
These elections we have to see a ray of hope, that together we will be able to make it predominate in the sky of the Archipelago, at least, for the next four years. Here we have electoral tools to carry out the necessary social change. So I ask you, to arrive at the polls happy, in contrast to the fear that those who have participated in the business carry and announce, and vote with conscience and heart: in Canarian and for the change for the better.
Pedro González Cánovas, Member of the Canarian Nationalist Alternative
