During a talk held at the headquarters of Municipalistas Primero Canarias, the director general of the Presidency Cabinet of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, affiliated with NC, emphasized that one of the pending tasks for nationalism in the islands is the creation of a political project that inspires confidence and achieves broad public backing.
“"People need to realize that nationalism serves to ensure that the economic wealth generated in the Canary Islands stays in the Canary Islands, so that young Canarians can live on the islands where they were born without being expelled by the market, so that culture is proudly taught in schools, to preserve the environmental heritage of the islands, to have our own voice, like Catalonia or the Basque Country, at the tables where policies affecting us are decided, and so that we can manage our energy, our sea, our infrastructure, and our future."
The director general urged leveraging the growing momentum of Canarian identity sentiment observed across the archipelago. In light of the current global crisis and its potential repercussions, he stated that nationalism represents the best political option to ensure the well-being, progress, and rights of the Canary Islands.
In contrast to centralist parties, which, in his view, "have their interests and loyalties in Madrid or Brussels," he defended the political action of nationalism, arguing that it "better addresses the real problems of Canarians."
He also stressed that this Canarian loyalty should not only be directed towards gaining sovereignty but also towards social justice, asserting that "there can be no national sovereignty without social justice."
