2024-01-02 23:53:02
Spanish Leftthe formation illuminated as an anti-nationalist alternative to the PSOE to compete in the European elections, it already has some recognizable figures from Spanish politics such as Soraya Rodríguez, who was parliamentary spokesperson for the PSOE during the Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba and that he left the party in 2019 due to his alliances with the nationalists. He later ran with Ciudadanos in the European elections, where he won a seat.
The actual MEP will be part of the Spanish Left party, socialist in nature and already officially registered with the Ministry of the Interior. The ideology of the formation is to build a “broad front on the left” but “from equality between territories”, and the rejection of concessions to the nationalists. Thus, they are “strong against the fiscal pact for Catalonia, territorial privileges or the breakage of the single box of the Social Security”.
Three Origins
The embryo of this new political actor was an event held in November where other figures who today make up its ranks already participated, coming from three areas: from the PSOE, from the orbit of Izquierda Unida and PCE, and from the first Ciudadanos, with a more progressive nature. .
Among the recognizable leaders from Cs who join the ranks of the Spanish Left is the philosopher and writer Felix Ovejeroone of the promoters of Ciudadanos who ended up leaving the party. Francisco de Carreraswho also left Cs after having founded it, and who already intervened in the act that turned out to be the germ of the Spanish Left.
Former public officials such as the former deputy in the Catalan Parliament have also joined the orange ranks. Sergio Sanz or the former vice president of Castilla y León, Paco Igeawhich has openly shown its support for the project: “A new party is born for those of us who believe that it is not possible to defend the “Freedom, Equality and Fraternity“with those who destroy the nation that makes them possible.”
Tune by Nicolás Redondo
Among those who come from the socialist side is the former PSOE deputy Pedro Bofill o Nicolás Redondo Terreros, which has a strong affinity with the new party, although it has not yet officially taken the leap. The former general secretary of the Socialist Party of Euskadi was expelled from the party last September after being critical of the amnesty law, in line with the theses of other historical socialists such as Felipe González.
Precisely in the González Government, in the most progressive wing, there were others of those who today make up the Spanish Left. Is about Juan Francisco Martín Secowho was general secretary of the Treasury of the former president and later one of the leading economists of the former leader of IU, Julio Anguita. Among the incorporations of former PSOE officials is that of Cecilio Vadillo, who was a rival at the polls of the current Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, to lead the PSOE in the city.
Coming from IU, there is the one who was its leader in the Community of Madrid, Angel Perez, the former leader of the PCE Rodríguez Vázquez of Prada or several former IU speakers in towns south of Madrid such as Parla or Leganés.
“Political orphanhood”
Once registered with the Ministry of the Interior, the new party plans to hold a official presentation ceremony, in addition to carrying out the appointment of a manager and electing its bodies. Del Valle, in statements to this medium, defends that “The left cannot be complicit with formations such as Junts, PNV or ERCwho defend privileges in the name of identity”, while questioning the progressive nature of the current Pedro Sánchez Government. “You cannot defend a socialist project in a confederal state“he points out.
Del Valle, one of the main promoters of the project, considers that there is a “political orphanhood” on the left and more specifically in the socialist electorate. “It is an alternative to those disenchanted with the PSOE due to its identity drift“, he points out. Those who do not identify with the “populist versions” of socialism, in reference to Podemos and Sumar, and who do not share the current drift of the Socialist Party after its agreements with the independence movement since, Del Valle highlights, “nationalism is always, always, right-wing“.
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