SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Autonomous Citizen Council of Podemos Canarias, the highest deliberative body of the formation between assemblies, held on Saturday, has expressed an “unequivocal” commitment to the unity of space around the Sumar Movement project of Yolanda Díaz, current leader of the United Podemos space, Second Vice President of the Government of Spain and Minister of Labor and Social Economy.
This has been confirmed by the general coordinator of Podemos Canarias, Laura Fuentes, who has insisted that as they have already demonstrated in the regional and local authorities, the commitment of Podemos Canarias “clearly passes through the unity of space to the left of the PSOE”.
“We came to politics to dispute the future. On July 23 a new opportunity opens to achieve it, and we are going to work to make it possible. We appeal to unity again, as we already did in the Canary Islands,” said Laura Fuentes.
For Fuentes, “it is essential to reorganize ourselves internally after the hard results. And that process will begin to materialize before and after 23J.”
At the meeting of the Autonomous Citizen Council, the results of the regional and municipal elections last Sunday were also assessed, in which the United Sí Podemos confluence (Podemos Canarias, Izquierda Unida Canaria and Sí Se Puede) suffered a significant setback in terms of support at the polls.
From the purple formation, the “great complexity” of the situation for the space of the “transformative left” of the Canary Islands after these last elections has been recognized, where “the proposals for social justice and sustainability have been left out of the Parliament of the Canary Islands while hate speech and denialism have managed to break in”, in reference to the entrance to the regional Chamber of the far-right party VOX with four deputies.
After assessing the results and assuming that they are very negative, Podemos Canarias considers that it is time “to amend those issues for which the public has chosen not to give us their support on this occasion.” “We have not been able to connect with the wishes of the citizenry and we have to rethink to get people excited again,” Fuentes insists.
THE “ROYAL OPPOSITION”
The organization has also expressed concern about the “imminent setback in rights” that is predicted for the next regional government, foreseeably made up of conservative forces such as the Canary Islands Coalition and the Popular Party.
For this reason, Laura Fuentes has advanced that the formation will be, even from outside Parliament, “the real opposition to Clavijo and his right wing, the Popular Party.” “And we will not be alone, we will continue creating alliances with sister forces, civil society and organized citizenship. The challenge is also to build participatory citizenship and more listening”, she affirmed.
Likewise, he remarked that his pride is the bases and the militancy: “It is what Podemos Canarias supports. We want to thank each vote and the militancy of United Sí Podemos for their effort in the campaign and we remember: political parties are tools to improve the lives of folks, that objective is still valid”.
However, the diagnosis also includes elements to reflect on with some optimism when verifying that “today there is a space for joint work in the Canary Islands between the main left-wing organizations of the archipelago (Podemos, Izquierda Unida and Sí Se Puede) with which We counted down to just a year ago.”
“Therefore, it is time to reinforce this space at all levels, expand its presence in the municipalities and reiterate the invitation to participate in it to the formations that until now chose to exclude themselves,” said Fuentes.
“We have verified with some pain what the disintegration of the left implies at the political and electoral level and we trust that this diagnosis will be made by the group of actors in space,” he concludes.
