SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 20. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Yes, an initiative has been presented this Wednesday to promote a new scenario that goes beyond the 2023 elections and that will present transforming political organizations, citizen groups, social movements and people who wish to participate in this process.
The ecosocialist organization values the experience of 15 years of history in which, arising from social movements, it has brought an “alternative voice” to the institutions.
Meeting point, participation in the institutions and defense of a transformative program for the islands were the fundamental axes of the interventions of the elected officials who acted as spokespersons: the first deputy mayor and councilor for Social Welfare of La Laguna, Rubens Ascanio; the second deputy mayor and councilor for Equality, Citizen Participation and Local Development and Employment of Tacoronte, Violeta Moreno, and the mayor of Buenavista del Norte, Antonio González Fortes, who were accompanied by various elected officials of the organization, present in different town halls of Tenerife and in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, all members of Sí se puede.
The objective of the informative act was also to inform about the result of the II Canarian Extraordinary Assembly of Sí se puede, held recently and in which the agreement was unanimously reached to promote and build a new social proposal on the islands with the idea of “another possible Canary”.
Along these lines, he understands that from the different realities of the islands “transforming proposals can continue to be articulated that stand up to those islands of piche, developmentalism, injustice and machismo that are still very much alive in many institutions and in many spaces of power. “.
Ascanio stressed that they are going to continue doing what they “best” know how to do, “hit and ensure that the group of neighbors and neighbors, citizens and citizens who are committed to this path of transformation have a clear, concrete and built response from the Canary Islands”.
Moreno pointed out that this new space will maintain the programmatic lines of the formation, “a policy that works on ecology, on a feminist society, in a society in which wealth is distributed, that there is no inequality and, above all, , respect for the territory and sovereignty in the Canary Islands”.
NO TO “ACRONYM SOUP”
“We believe that this space has to work with these political proposals on the table and defend them above all against other policies that do not go along these lines. It is important to take advantage of the experience of these years in the institutions and generate that political project with that vision” , stressed the tacorontera councilor.
For his part, the mayor of Buenavista stressed that they are not looking for “a sum of acronyms or a soup of acronyms” but to promote a scenario of joint work with other organizations that understand the importance of the programmatic framework.
He also emphasized the importance of “extensive experience” of more than 15 years of joint work between Sí se puede and social movements, in which they have always wanted to be an “instrument for growth, a meeting point with all those people who believe that another way of understanding the Canary Islands is possible”.
González stressed that “what was requested in 2007 is of the utmost importance, that the alternative voice be present in the institutions, that is a complete reality 15 years later in all the institutions, in the city councils, which is one of the forces of Sí you can, municipalism, but also a voice in the island institutions and in the Parliament of the Canary Islands”.
