The former deputy of United We Can (UP) for Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Alberto Rodríguez, He has launched harsh criticism of his former formation by describing the strategy of the leaders as “infamous” We can accuse him of having an empty seat instead of attacking “those responsible” for this fact, the president of Congress, Meritxell Batet, and the PSOE. Rodríguez has expressed his opinion on the situation around his seat in a video on his social networks, in which he considers what he has experienced in this process “quite painful”, not only “because of the aggressions of the right, of the elites of the regime, but by those she considered companions” of training.
The former deputy has decided to speak on the matter despite the fact that “it is not a dish of good taste” for “dignity” in the face of “a continuous strategy to withdraw my seat and turn the page”, something “absolutely contrary” to the values of solidarity, ethics and honesty “that they are throwing away”. “They are putting pressure (from UP) on the Central Electoral Board to replace me instead of going to Batet to return the seat, to me and to 64,000 Canary Islands and Canary Islands”, Rodríguez pointed out.
Specifically, he has alluded to recent statements by the deputy spokesman for UP, Henry Santiagothat Rodríguez’s seat must now be “covered” so as not to risk voting in Congress, what he has called “infamy” for “attacking and pressuring the victim of abuse instead of the executioners, Batet and the PSOE”. Santiago alluded to the vote on the labor reform, which went ahead due to the erroneous vote of a PP deputy, while the seat occupied by Rodríguez remains empty on the purple formation bench, which would have meant one more vote for the groups that support to the government.
This is the last straw that fills “a series of indignities”, since “I am accused of having an empty seat in Congress”, proclaimed the former UP deputy, who has also accused the spokesman for the socialist group in Congress , also from Tenerife Hector Gomezof “lying” when he affirms that Batet limited himself to serving a sentence, since this did not establish the loss of the parliamentary position.
He has also indicated that on Christmas Eve 2021 he received notification of the order of extinction of the sentence for the assault on a police officer during a demonstration in The lagoon in 2014, which was dated December 5, so in his opinion he should have been replaced “automatically” in the seat “following the same route that Batet used to kick me out.” This requires “a reaction at the highest level and stopping the machines, not for me but so that tomorrow it does not happen” to another parliamentarian, Rodríguez has indicated, to regret that while in UP the phrases that they were going to fight were “warm” by him because what happened was “a European scandal”, they were already “working behind the scenes to occupy the seat”. Unbreakable solidarity and ethics disappear when you reach “these levels of politics”, continued the former leader of UP, for whom it has been “hard” to see how this happened “I don’t know if because of the little positions at stake, it’s infamous” .
He has also indicated that he has suffered “cancel culture” because at UP they played from a certain moment “to pretend that I didn’t exist and that this case hadn’t happened, when it is brutal for the democratic history of this country”, and he wondered if this was because it was a uncomfortable deputy, not condescending and who criticized the Government.
