2024-10-19 04:00:00
“All in, no crossed vetoes.” This is the message that the leader of Izquierda Unida, Antonio Maíllo, plans to send to the federal coordinator who meets this Sunday. A commitment to building political alliances that include all forces, including Podemos, with the aim of “achieving a single candidacy of the federal and confederal left for the subsequent electoral dates”. The message has special relevance after the reconfiguration of space on the left that opened up after the departure of Yolanda Díaz as Sumar‘s organic leader.
Antonio Maíllo: “The political cycle that began in 2014 has closed”
“We are committed to a unitary culture of alliance building – we can summarize it graphically as “all in, without crossed vetoes” – compatible with organizational reinforcement and direct dialogue with society and with those sectors that feel represented by our political culture.
The text, to which ediario had access, speaks of the need for a left with initiative and a “campaign project” in the face of “resistance and fear of the far right”. “It’s about moving from alert to alternative; From resistance to adherence to a set of values, to an alternative country project and direct dialogues with unorganized but socially influential sectors,” he argues.
And to achieve this objective, Maíllo is committed to the left returning to a framework of unity after an electoral year marked by competition between two forces within the same political space. A year ago, disagreements between Sumar and Podemos led to a total rupture that currently shows no signs of recovery. The left was divided by the Galicians and the Basches, with very poor results and also by the Europeans.
The result of those elections was what led the second vice president to abandon the organic leadership of the political space and what put an end to Sumar’s strategy as the umbrella of a broad front of formations in which Podemos was no longer in any case.
Izquierda Unida proposed to resolve this situation. For months now, the party has been taking steps towards re-establishing relations for a united candidacy. The Communist Party of Spain was an unsuccessful attempt to bring together positions, with a table on the future of the left from which Podemos left at the last minute without offering too many excuses.
In February, the Federation will hold a sort of political conference, a process they have called Chied for Democracy, with which they want to bring together their bases, but also “castagional militants” and civil society to develop a political proposal that arms the arms left at the beginning of the new political cycle, marked by a right-wing Europe and an international context of war. “It’s about moving from alert to alternative; From resistance to adherence to a set of values, to an alternative country project and direct dialogues with unorganized but socially influential sectors,” the draft report states.
The IU wants this political conference to also serve as a turning point to start building a political alliance that unites all parties again. To this end, the report claims, the IU leadership began conversations with all organizations that were part of the 23J coalition, “including Podemos.” “On the other hand, we are part of a space of coordination between organizations, together with Comunes, Movimiento Sumar, Más Madrid and Verdes-Equro”, recalls the text.
They sent a message to all of them in which they show their desire to weave “political, social and cultural alliances”, in which the IU offers itself “on equal terms, without being more but not less”, as a tool to work for the unit. “This political process seeks to involve more people in politics, build a social organization, encourage mobilization and, through a democratic and participatory methodology, achieve a single candidacy of the federal and confederal left for the next electoral events,” says Maíllo in the project .
This is not a voluntary proposal, IU sets some conditions for this unit to work. Among others, the creation of a space for coordination between equals and democratization in decision-making, something that the federation has asked for since the birth of Unidas Podemos as a coalition and which it continued to ask for subsequently with Sumar. It also calls for a definitive end to the confusion between Movimiento Sumar, Yolanda Díaz’s party and the Sumar Coalition.
“A method of operation is needed, which does not yet exist, and there is a need for political will to come together, thinking of the interests of the working class of our country,” Maíllo concludes in the project.
End of relations with Israel
In the project that the federal coordinator will vote on on Sunday, Maíllo will also address the Spanish and international political situation. The text demands that the government “cut off all types of relations” with Israel, “a country under the control of a genocidal regime”, it denounces. “It is essential to mobilize in defense of peace in the Middle East, demanding respect for United Nations resolutions, always ignored by Israel with the support of the United States, its indispensable protector in this situation,” the text argues.
Among other actions, IU calls on Spain to cripple possible contract offers to Israeli security and defense companies. “The Spanish Ministry of Defense cannot continue to collaborate with Israeli companies that participate in genocide or occupation,” he warns.
The report also calls on the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, not to adopt an “equidistant position” in this situation. “The president of the government cannot adopt an equidistant position in the face of a situation that will be a future shame for the Western world, whose governments, faint-hearted, allow the extermination of the population in Gaza”, reads the text.
Regarding the latest judicial news in Spain, IU demands that the government provide full explanations on the Koldo case, given the “clear signs of excessive use of public resources”. “Cases that appear, without falling into partisan configurations or media traps, must be analyzed and studied with absolute transparency, regardless of who it falls for,” the report argues.
Finally, he denounces the attitude of the second chamber of the Supreme Court, interfering in political life. “The admission to the processing of the complaint against the Attorney General is another step along those lines, despite the null legal basis it has. If it also comes from someone who has proven to be a tax criminal, the partner of the president of the community of Madrid, they also give signs of what things continue to be untouchable in our country, “he states.
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