The new coordinator in Tenerife sees fragmentation as “suicide” and claims collective value against “hyper-leadership”
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 24. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The new coordinator of Izquierda Unida Canaria (IUC) in Tenerife, Ramón Trujillo, appeals to the unity of the left in the face of future electoral elections and to avoid the “suicide” of the separate contest, as happened in May after the emergence of Proyecto Drago and the division of the progressive vote.
“Alberto Rodríguez made a mistake and caused the greatest damage to the Canarian alternative left in 40 years,” he summarizes in an interview with Europa Press in which he asks “what sense” it made to fracture the left when the electoral programs were very similar and Weeks later all the leftist forces were together under the umbrella of Sumar.
Trujillo believes that “what is lost is a lot”, from “organization, social environment, experience” and even “credibility” in a part of the electorate, regretting that the entry into the political board of Proyecto Drago “was a gift for the right.” politics and media” at a time when the space of Unidas Podemos was in a “downward trend” although without losing representation in the institutions according to the surveys, as finally happened in the case of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, the councils of Tenerife and Gran Canaria or the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council.
The former municipal spokesperson of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, who resumed organic life due to the push of his colleagues to somehow “recover the initials” of IU and “return to the starting box”, calls what happened to him a “tragedy”. the left on May 28 because, among other things, “there is no other project” that does not involve the union of the leftist forces.
“If it is not sewn up, this level of division is not going anywhere. This is obvious, we have to sew it up. I am very clear about that, but we also have to draw lessons from what has happened, that is, I believe that there are to stop now that the elections have passed, that we already have a Government and that in principle the other electoral processes are far away and now we have to reflect aloud that perhaps a few months ago could not be done,” he points out.
Along these lines, he is critical of the “hyperleadership” that has marked the left in recent years, also at the national level, given that it “weakens” organizations, which is why he claims to “put the collective first” and forget about who “has pull” at a certain moment.
“MANY ERRORS DUE TO INGENUITY OR LACK OF TRAJECTORY”
Trujillo points out that “what cannot be is starting from scratch every four or eight years and arriving at the institutions absolutely clueless and making many mistakes, as have been made, simply due to naivety, due to lack of track record.”
In fact, he indicates that “the elections in this country in the end continue to be won by the parties, the organizations that are above their leaders and that then have to work hard, have good leadership, but this from organizations that never quite come together, that they are permanently weakening and that they are at the mercy of emerging leaderships at every moment, I think it is lethal for the left.
He believes that “there is no other way” than to strengthen political organizations and go to confluences with strong programs since the last elections showed the “disaster” that fragmentation entailed and “how sad” it was to contemplate how “there were enough progressive voters to have representation in all institutions.
He does not hide that the failure of the left last March 28 reduces their “credibility” as a political project, to which is added a lack of “collective maturity” due to not being able to put together strong unitary candidacies having “very similar” proposals.
“What happened has no political explanation for me. In political terms it cannot be explained,” he details.
For this reason, he insists that the electoral future of the left passes through spaces of confluence where IUC must be represented and asks “what sense does it make to go separately, knowing perfectly well that the electoral law penalizes some of us and others?”
In that sense, it opens the door to talking with Proyecto Drago, remembering that in the last elections they were already in favor of Alberto Rodríguez heading the list for Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the General Elections so that “the mistake” of the local elections would not be repeated. .
The new island coordinator gives as an example of the “step back” of the alternative left the loss of representation in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council since 2007 at a time when the new General Plan is going to be addressed “and they will only be those who are influenced by economic power, all this obviously has consequences.
THE “SOUL” OF THE RIGHT WINS IN THE LAGOON
Questioned about the government pact signed between PSOE and CC in the La Laguna City Council, he indicates that the Canarian PSOE “has two souls, one that wants to go to its right and another that wants to go to its left” and understands that in a situation like the current “obviously prevails” that they want to go to the right. “That’s how it is,” he comments.
Not in vain does he maintain that among socialists the idea can spread that “if the left is going to be like this and is willing to squander its capital of votes and popular support in this way”, then it is better to turn to the other side, because they understand ” What’s the point of winding up something” that may not have much travel.
