De ATI a Coalición Canariaestrategia y oportunidad en la transformación del poder local tinerfeño desde el insularismo al nacionalismo (1982 a 1996): Estado de la cuestión

Abstract

The creation of Coalición Canaria, Canary party that has governed uninterruptedly since 1993, has tried to be explained as a result of conscious strategy aimed at creating a nacionalist politic force, which may connect to the canarian nacionalism of the late XIX century, designed by party’s leaders who finished integrating the coalition. This work expects to show that Coalición Canaria came up as the result to the politic elites’s desire (specially from Tenerife) to gain to control the regional power, and also to have power over the spontaneous process of the politic reorganization that took the ‘unhookeds’ to a new organization into municipals and centrist groups after the UCD disappearance. In this sense, the essential precedents of the ‘modern canarian nacionalism’ -Agrupaciones Independientes and Centro Canario- have their origin in centralist personages, groups and currents.