in one of the CUP campaign videos, Mireia Vehí and Robert Sabater, who occupy the first and second positions on the anti-capitalist list for Girona, travel by train to Madrid. In the capital of Spain, they first visit the Santiago Bernabéu (a very strange script decision that is only justified by the inclusion of the phrase “this is where Florentino rules with businessmen, bankers and all the patulea & rdquor;), then they record the facade of the Royal Palace and finally, They approach the Congress of Deputies. There, with the two protagonists sitting on the stairs of the Palacio de las Cortes, the central scene of this modest audiovisual production takes place. We reproduce it in original version. “Well, Mireia, it’s here, isn’t it? –says Sabater, former mayor of Viladamat, with a gesture that reveals a certain obfuscation-. Here we do not care about independence… But what about here?”.
That a few days before July 23 the number two for Girona continues to ask “what are you doing here? & rdquor; gives a fairly accurate measure of internal debate that arouses in the CUP the decision to to participate again in the Spanish general elections. The most visible faces of the candidacy assume the possible contradictions that this entails and try to justify them by proclaiming the need to maintain in all institutions, including Congress, a space from which to talk about independence, anti-capitalism, “rights and freedoms , solidarity and horizons of a better life & rdquor ;. More than as a tool for doing politics, the CUP candidates offer themselves in these elections as a speaker of mobilization and conflict. Concur with the motto ‘Plant face’So they are not fooling anyone there.
Rally in Sants
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Its condition as an anti-system party also extends, apparently, to the design of campaign events. today they celebrate a rally in Barcelona’s Plaza de Sants; the main speaker is Mireia Vehí, who, as has been said, actually presents herself in Girona. The head of the list for Barcelona, Albert Botran, is on other duties (on Friday he will close the campaign in… Girona), so he intervenes instead number two on the list, Laure Vega, with his submachine gun oratory. So do Samuel López, a member of the group of health transport workers Techniques in Lluitaand the Senegalese Papalaye, from Popular Union of Street Vendors (‘aka’ Manteros), who take advantage of their vocation as speaker of the Cupera candidacy to talk about their troubles (important, I’m not saying no) before some sixty people.
The program is completed by the performances of the DJ from Bisbala Diego Armando DJ and the duo Oscar Wolf & Washboard Quico, whose versions of rural blues classics from a century ago sound great, although, to raise the slightest objection, they may be somewhat out of time in an act of these characteristics. The political usefulness of voting for the CUP can be discussed (“what are you here? & rdquor;), but not that its rallies They are the ones that offer the best music of the campaign.