To the demonstrations this weekend in the Canary Islands The only thing missing was posters with the face of the leader of the MPAIAC, Antonio Cubillo, to move to the alert level of the European authorities on the islands. Under the motto of "tourism is colonialism" thousands of citizens with a renewed social mass took to the streets asking for greater weight of island sovereignty in decisions about strategic economic activities such as the service sector and construction. There were 57.000 people in the streets of the Canary Islands with a powerful display of media activists providing coverage in their companies and social networks. They also have problems renting houses at reasonable prices due to the increase in the market share of vacation homes, as the organizers denounce, and the employers admit.
The rejuvenation of cries mentioning the word independence of the European Union may be a response to the high rates of youth unemployment and the problems of some islanders who do not compare with places in Spain such as the Basque Country, tremendously aged and with incomes home associated with value-added sectors that are not exactly knowing how to move a tray skillfully or having the memory for a command without errors.
This is what the Canary Coalition and Nueva Canarias would have liked most, where their leaders will have already taken note to toughen their speech to generate the union of both parties. The great absentee from the mobilizations has been the Canary Nationalist Party, which does not have a presence but does have acronyms that CC and NC want to have associated with their name. "We have to talk, this is getting out of control and if there is no longer Podemos anything can happen," said a moderate nationalist leader who was on Mesa y López Avenue in Las Palmas watching the demonstration pass. The last time a separatist party took power in the Las Palmas City Council was in 1979 for a couple of years.
The highlight of Saturday's mobilization is a considerable absence of peninsulars as occurred at the time of Podemos, the party created on the islands by officials and that governed the Canary Islands between 2019 and 2023 and that controlled the management of urban planning in Las Palmas between 2015 and 2023. All of Las Palmas' problems with its apartments arise from the time of Podemos directing Urban Planning.
Young people of all ages displayed Canarian flags with folds of seven green stars, that is, recently purchased in Asian stores, who have realized that the official flag with dogs can be useful for a veterinarian's consultation but not for selling them for 10 euros per unit. Another thing that stood out about the Las Palmas demonstration is that some flag of the Basque Country could be seen, the absence of a Polisario flag and no music bands with batucadas as on other occasions.
