SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Izquierda Unida in the Canary Islands has brought together its highest decision-making body to assess the situation of the Autonomous Community after the municipal and regional elections on May 28 and to decide on the strategy for the new electoral process and has agreed to bet on unity of action in the general elections with Sumar.
Thus, in that space, the strategy that the political formation will follow in the face of the new scenario that opens the call for general elections on July 23 has been designed, in which they hope that “the errors committed can be corrected and they are committed to uniting the entire political, social and independent spectrum to defend the rights of the working class and the social majority on the islands”.
The National Coordinator of IU has a representation of the Island Coordinations, which allows a closer analysis of the reality that is currently lived in each island and municipality of the archipelago, and has expressed its concern about the arrival of the ultra-right in the different institutions in the Canary Islands, fearing that they could jeopardize social progress achieved.
On the other hand, from the IUC they maintain that the electoral results make clear the consequences of the division of the left that have led to the loss of institutional representation in the different administrations, and they view with concern the context that is opening up on the islands, with new right-wing governments together with the nationalist right, with internal or external support from the ultra-right both at the regional level and various island and local levels, “which endanger the defense of the territory, the financing of public services and the maintenance of rights social and citizens.
The formation of the left assumes the challenge of rebuilding the space for unity, working to overcome the divisions between political parties, which share a large part of the electoral programs with which they have been presented. From the IUC they collect the testimony that the citizens have sent from the polls, which “harshly punishes the dismemberment of the unity of action in defense of the rights of the popular classes and the heritage and identity of our land.”
For IUC, the reconstruction of the space of the left necessarily involves recovering the organization, building a common work space among all the forces of the left. As well as joint work spaces with citizens, in social, neighborhood, environmental movements, for labor rights, feminists, in defense of the rights of the majority.
For this reason, they appeal “to all political forces with an interest in progress and sustainable development on the islands, to the social movements that support public and quality education; to those of health seriously affected by the shortage of personnel and with Endless waiting lists that want to transfer to the private sphere, squandering the money of the Canarian people; to those who have defended tooth and nail our natural and cultural heritage against an outdated model that seeks to throw us out of our homes due to gentrification in our towns and neighbourhoods, and all those groups and individuals seeking an alternative to the current model that suffocates us every day and makes the poor poorer and the rich richer”.
From the IUC National Coordinator they consider that the best way to join efforts and defend the interests of the majority is to bet on the Sumar Project with the Vice President and Minister of Labor Yolanda Díaz at the helm, so that she may be the next president of the Government. “The illusion that it has awakened in the working classes, with the promotion of the Minimum Interprofessional Wage and with a different way of doing politics, far from the daily noise, make it the best political asset for the transforming left of this country,” they affirm. .
For this reason, in the coming days IUC will work in contact with the different political and social forces to encourage them to join the beginning of the work of the recovery of the left in the Canary Islands in a wide space, of care and with respect for the citizen mandate that came out of the polls.
