Ahora Canarias

Ahora Canarias is a Canarian pro-independence federation of parties. It was launched on 8 February 2019 as an electoral coalition bringing together Alternativa Nacionalista Canaria and Unidad del Pueblo, among others, and later reorganised itself as a federation of parties in 2020.

History

Ahora Canarias emerged from a push for unity among Canarian pro-independence forces. On 8 February 2019 the coalition was presented in Tenerife; its early public spokespeople cited ANC and UP among the core organisations, with the process also involving the Congreso Nacional de Canarias.
For the April 2019 Spanish general election and the 2019 Canarian regional election, the coalition ran lists in the Canary Islands. For the 2019 European election it participated inside the multi-party alliance Ahora Repúblicas led by ERC, EH Bildu and the BNG.
On 21 July 2020 the organisation announced it would cease to operate as a mere electoral coalition and constitute itself as a federation of parties, maintaining ANC and UP as its constituent members.
Ahead of the 2023 local and regional elections, Ahora Canarias initially joined the green-left platform Drago Verdes Canarias but withdrew on 7 March 2023, criticising the coalition’s internal dynamics. In April 2023 it announced a joint electoral ticket with the Partido Comunista del Pueblo Canario for municipal, island council and regional contests.

Ahora Canarias situates itself within the Canarian pro-independence movement and frames its programme in socialist, ecological and feminist terms, with anticolonial and anti-imperialist positions expressed in its communications and allied media.

The organisation’s youth wing is Ahul! – Juventudes Ahora Canarias, active since at least 2021.