Txema Guijarro formalizes withdrawal from Podemos and will contribute to the construction of Sumar in Alicante

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Coalition after the 23 July elections Commit-Add Achieved a single deputy in Congress for Alicante. Txema Gravel Thus, he became the representative of a controversial formation in the Valencian Community, which experienced a painful agreement and especially in Alicante. The politician will face the third legislature next August 17, and will be a “nursery”, as he admits, “politically linked to the state for six years.”

The new stage starts with a final farewell to the purple formation, which is known for its closeness to one of its founders, Pablo Iglesias, and which it has been a part of since its inception. Txema Guijarro resigns from management to be In February 2022, after a disagreement with the management in negotiations General budgets of the state. He served as general secretary of the parliamentary group and spokesperson for the Treasury. Since then the leader has begun to move away from the organization, but was still a member until two weeks ago.

On his departure, Guijarro was highly critical of his former party and regrets both the ways and the internal drift since the party split. churches In favor of Yolanda Diaz. For the MP, there was no alternative but the vice president to fight against the conservative or ultra-conservative alliance formed by the PP and Vox.

Regarding the Alicante province, he says he has been working on the election campaign to achieve results regardless of Podemos’ indicators, praising its leadership. xavi lopez in an intense process.

Sumar’s representative does not touch upon the subject of civil war, which manifested itself in the first duel between him and Carlos Bernabé of Cambiemos Orihuela. Oriolano was initially considered a consensus candidate. This Sumar won the war.

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The politician, who has already presented his credentials at the Congress of Representatives, considers the “feeling of orphanhood absolute” at the moment, as the platform has not yet had time to set up a structure in Alicante or the Valencian Community. “yes (from Podemos) there are people waiting for the party to be formed.” From their point of view, there is a foundation to build it on. In this sense, Guijarro thinks “Podemos has disappeared”, referring to the party’s ERE, which would mean the closure of its Valencia offices and the layoffs of its workers, preferring to stay away from everything that is happening at the moment. .

In this forward-looking view that the national MP wants to focus on, he realizes that much remains to be done and, above all, in the Reconciliation Community it is a strong coalitionRegardless of internal tensions. “I am confident that I can contribute to the growth of Sumar in Alicante,” he added to questions from this newspaper about what his role would be in this future project. Guijarro assures that he is not shy about coming forward and has spent years on the existence of a left-wing political alternative.

Some sources consider him to be someone close to his circle. Yolanda Diaz and as with Pablo Iglesias, he belongs to the group of leaders who stood up there to unite the left and achieve good results. His entry into the Congress of Representatives was outside the Compromís, which earlier this week presented the credentials of its representatives in the Cortes Generales.

Although the numbers do not allow it to have its own parliamentary group, the coalition wants to have a larger role after the descent. Joan Baldovi At the Valencian Courts.

First there will be the parliamentary group, then the government and finally the party. this row Txema Gravel predict it will continue To add It may take two years for it to gain a solid structure on national soil. The Alicante MP is optimistic about the next legislature and believes these three milestones were set by the call for early elections, which accelerated the founding logic of the platform he led. Yolanda Diaz. For now, Sumar is in an embryonic stage facing the challenge of forming a government with the Socialists and waiting to see what will happen to the entire Podemos process in the organic field as its militant base largely overlaps.

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