It's an audio recording of someone who is allegedly both in Prica and Nueva Canarias. The civil war within progressive nationalism is no longer being fought in offices, but in WhatsApp groups. A leaked audio recording of Carmelo Ramírez, a heavyweight in Nueva Canarias (NC) and national secretary of International Solidarity, has landed like a cluster bomb in the town halls of Santa Lucía de Tirajana and San Bartolomé de Tirajana, revealing an orchestrated strategy to "decapitate" Primero Canarias (Prica) in its key strongholds.
In a message of barely 53 seconds that is already circulating from terminal to terminal throughout the archipelago, Ramírez holds nothing back. With a tone that oscillates between euphoria over the offensive launched and personal contempt, the veteran politician calls his former colleagues in Primero Canarias "bastards, to put it mildly." The audio is a direct congratulation to the local assembly of Santa Lucía for having resisted what Ramírez describes as a "betrayal." But what has set off alarm bells in the south is not the insult, but the roadmap that the nationalist leader is laying out. Ramírez is clear: politics is a marathon, and the offensive has only just begun. "After this [Santa Lucía] will come San Bartolomé, Arucas, Moya, Teror... we already have that prepared for the second wave," he warns in the message.
This statement confirms that the NC leadership has set in motion a legal and political machine to stifle Prica's officials. The immediate objective is clear: to have the councilors who left Román Rodríguez's party declared defectors, which would effectively render them politically ineffective in municipal council meetings.
The tension is not new, but its intensity is. It's worth remembering that Carmelo Ramírez himself recently assumed the role of spokesperson in the Gran Canaria Island Council, displacing Teodoro Sosa, one of the leading figures of what is now Primero Canarias. In the south, where the balance of power is always precarious, this move is interpreted as an attempt by NC to regain control of the Golden Triangle (Santa Lucía, Agüimes, and San Bartolomé), just as the internal rift threatened to leave the historic party without significant territorial representation. While Primero Canarias denounces an "obsessive persecution" and an attempt to win in the courts what NC is losing in the streets, the atmosphere in the corridors of the southern town halls is extremely tense. Ramírez's "second salvo" could destabilize local governments that are already hanging by a thread.
