Internal problems in purple formation. The confluence of Podemos and Esquerra Unida presented its regional and municipal nominations this Sunday at the University of Alicante. Xavier López is the current number two and without the presence of the manager or local campaign management who led the mayor four years ago, Xavier López.
The action was intertwined with the problems that emerged after the alliance of leftist formations against both regional and municipal elections on 28 May. Like this, The regional delegation of Podemos accepted the stampede without raising it to the bases of the provincial capital, making a series of resignations and changes to the list. They placed Manolo Copé of Esquerra Unida at the top of the list.
As a result of these events and despite the fact that Xavier López openly expressed his support for Copé, Podemos Alicante’s executive and campaign management did not attend the event and therefore showed their dissatisfaction with the measures taken by the party’s regional delegation especially against the Organization.. Therefore, despite the presentation of the campaigns and a provincial action, affiliates and public officials were not much involved.
Among others, those who took part in and participated in the demonstration were some of the main mayoral candidates of the formation: moises garciamayor by Elche; Alberto Beviacandidate for mayor of San Vicente del Raspeig; Claudia Sternantino, top of Sant Joan list; and your own manolo kopeck by Alicante. He also represented Los Verdes with its general secretary Pura Peris and Alianza Verde coordinator Juliá Álvaro.
among the attendees Also on the list was Vanessa Romero in third place and Lucía Ibáñez in fourth place.; Along with other mayoral candidates such as Pedro Mario Pardo of El Campello and Borja Iborra of Mutxamel.
By contrast, the discontent of the bases and the lack of appearance of Xavier López, who was number two for Alicante and mayor four years ago, have not been the only controversy regarding the current status of the coalition. Firstly, The name topped the list of Cortes belonged to María Teresa Pérez.Director of the Youth Institute (Injuve) in Madrid and one of the young active values in the coalition government with the Socialists. But, It was announced at the last moment that Unides Podem had skipped the regional roster and was replaced by Alejandro Aguilar..
María Teresa Pérez as the spokesperson for the national leadership of Podemos and Alejandro Aguilar as the Alicante candidate participated in the action held in Alicante. Basing his speech on the new housing law, he touched on the management of two crises. the need to intervene in different sectors of the economy – caused by the coronavirus and resulting from the Russia-Ukraine war – Aguilar showed determination to lead a somewhat controversial list.
He also had time He points out to socialists that “PSOE has 40 years to do something about housing in Spain” and that the law being executed “has moved forward thanks to United We Can”.. Concerning the far-right, he expressed Vox’s “shame” of “presenting a person convicted of sexist violence as the Generalitat candidate” and his refusal that “the People’s Party has no doubts”. The same PP who claimed to be advocating for women’s rights as the yes only yes law was reformed is a second to agree with a harasser.
on his behalf María Teresa Pérez ignored any tensions and focused her speech on criticizing the “invisibility” of the formation “by the public institution”.. In this way, he criticized the fact that Héctor Illueca, candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat, had only 30 seconds “while Ximo Puig had 23 more” in a debate broadcast on Canal 24H.
The General Coordinator of the United Left of the Country of Valencia and Minister for Participation, Transparency, Cooperation and Democratic Quality drew attention to Compromís. Rosa Perez. Both in his previous appearance before the media and when it was his turn to speak in action, he referred to Compromís and the Socialists as entities that “made only aesthetic changes”.Podemos and the EU “really want to transform.”
last row to talk The candidate of the Generalitat Valenciana coalition is Héctor Illueca. In his appearance, he wanted to emphasize the unity of three cultures in a political project that he classified as “transformative”: “the culture of political environmentalism, the tradition of the indignados, and the grassroots culture of Izquierda Unida”. For this reason, He got nostalgic when he remembered Julio Anguita as the main link of these three cultures.
He then based his speech on speaking of “correlation of forces” to refer to higher powers that intervened “so that the 2015 government could not be formed”. Like this, He described this case as “a corruption conspiracy that led us to agree on a coalition government with 6 million votes and 3 million votes”..
With businessmen like Juan Roig, Enrique Ortiz, Boluda or Balearia in his criticism of big companies “The Valencian Community is being trampled by the bots of big corporations, so much that Puig declared a company day”.
He also took off his chest “The first housing law in the entire history of democracy”although she added that now “it is the turn of the Autonomous Communities to implement it”, with direct reference to Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who declared that she would not
In this way, the act of submitting regional and municipal candidacy It was done without any hint of tension and internal disruption within the party.. Worse still, no national reference (with the exception of María Teresa Pérez) preceded the action in Valencia, where Social Services Minister Ione Belarra was present.
Alicante board member Carmen Villaverde claims: would classify what happened on Sunday morning as a boycott: “It is nothing that the second in the list was not, there were people from the manager, as in my case”. In this sense, he argues: “Xavier can’t go if he doesn’t want to” however, he states that “there is militancy from Podemos Alicante and other municipalities” in the action.