“Everyone is present, without cross veto. » This is the message that the leader of Izquierda Unida, Antonio Maíllo, intends to send to the federal coordinator who meets this Sunday. A commitment to building political alliances including all forces, including Podemos, with the aim of “achieving a single candidacy of the federal and confederal left for the next elections”. The message takes on particular importance after the reconfiguration of the left space opened after the departure of Yolanda Díaz as organic leader of Sumar.
“We are attached to a unitary culture in the construction of alliances – we can summarize it graphically by “everyone, without crossed veto” –, compatible with organizational strengthening and direct dialogue with society and with the sectors which feel represented by our political culture. “and programmatic proposal”, states the draft political report that Maíllo will present on Sunday and which will probably be ratified by the broader leadership of Izquierda Unida.
The text, to which elDiario.es had access, speaks of the need for a left of initiative and a “country project” in the face of “the resistance and fear of the extreme right”. “It’s about moving from alert to alternative; from resistance to adherence to a set of values, through a project for an alternative country and a direct dialogue with unorganized but socially influential sectors,” he argues.
And to achieve this, Maillo is committed to ensuring that the left finds a framework of unity after an electoral year marked by competition between two forces within the same political space. A year ago, disagreements between Sumar and Podemos led to a total breakup which, for now, shows no signs of recovery. The left was divided between the Galicians and the Basques, with very bad results, and also between the Europeans.
The result of these elections led the second vice president to abandon the organic direction of the political space and put an end to Sumar’s strategy as an umbrella of a broad front of formations in which Podemos was not doing anyway. no longer gone.
Izquierda Unida offered to resolve this situation. For months, the party has been moving towards restoring relations in favor of a united candidacy. The Spanish Communist Party tried unsuccessfully to bring positions closer together, with a table on the future of the left from which Podemos left at the last minute without many excuses.
In February, the federation will organize a kind of political conference, a process it has called Call for Democracy, with which it wants to bring together its bases, but also the “shipwrecked activists” and civil society to develop a political proposal that arms to the left at the start of the new political cycle, marked by a right-wing Europe and an international context of war. “It’s about moving from alert to alternative; from resistance to adherence to a set of values, to an alternative country project and to direct dialogue with unorganized but socially influential sectors,” the draft report states.
IU hopes that this political conference will also serve as a turning point to begin building a political alliance that unites all parties again. To this end, the report claims, the IU leadership began conversations with all organizations that were part of the 23J coalition, “including Podemos.” “On the other hand, we are part of a space of coordination between organizations, with Comunes, Movimiento Sumar, Más Madrid and Verdes-Equo”, recalls the text.
They sent everyone a message in which they demonstrate their desire to weave “social and cultural political alliances”, in which IU offers itself “on an equal footing, without being more but nor less”, as a tool to work for the unit. “This political process aims to involve more people in politics, to build a social organization, to encourage mobilization and, through a democratic and participatory methodology, to obtain a single candidacy from the federal and confederal left for the next elections” , says Maíllo in the project. .
This is not a voluntary proposal, IU sets certain conditions for this unit to operate. Among other things, the creation of a space for coordination between equals and the democratization of decision-making, which the federation has been demanding since the birth of Unidas Podemos as a coalition and which it continued to demand later with Sumar . He also calls for a definitive end to the confusion between Movimiento Sumar, Yolanda Díaz’s party, and the Sumar coalition.
“We need a method of operation, which does not yet exist, and we need a political will to come together, thinking about the interests of the working class of our country,” concludes Maíllo in the project.
End of relations with Israel
In the project that the Federal Coordinator will vote on Sunday, Maíllo also addresses the Spanish and international political situation. The text asks the government to “cut off all types of relations” with Israel, “a country under the control of a genocidal regime”, he denounces. “It is imperative to mobilize in defense of peace in the Middle East, by demanding respect for UN resolutions, always ignored by Israel with the support of the United States, its indispensable protector in this situation,” affirms the text.
Among other actions, IU is asking Spain to paralyze possible calls for tenders from Israeli security and defense companies. “The Spanish Ministry of Defense cannot continue to collaborate with Israeli companies that participate in the genocide or the occupation,” he warns.
The report also calls on the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, not to adopt an “equidistant position” in this situation. “The president of the government cannot adopt an equidistant position in the face of a situation which will be a future shame for the Western world, whose governments, timid, allow the extermination of the population of Gaza”, we can read in the text .
Regarding the latest judicial news in Spain, IU asks the government to provide all explanations on the Koldo case given the “obvious signs of excessive use of public resources”. “The cases that appear, without falling into partisan or media traps, must be analyzed and investigated with absolute transparency, no matter who falls,” says the report.
Finally, he denounces the attitude of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court, which interferes in political life. “The admission to processing of the complaint against the Attorney General is another step in this direction, despite the lack of legal basis. If it also comes from someone who turned out to be a tax criminal, the partner of the president of the Community of Madrid, it also gives signs that things continue to be untouchable in our country,” says- he.
