The leader of the CUP Eulàlia Reguant has announced that she resigns from her membership as a deputy of the Parliament. After the poor results obtained by the formation in the municipal elections and in the last general elections, when the anti-capitalists They were left without representation in Congresshas decided to leave the front line of politics and get involved in the refoundation process that this fall he plans to launch the party. “I come down from the lectern to roll up my sleeves between us”, Reguant has assured, the first voluntary withdrawal that the formation suffers after the electoral setback. After being left without a seat in Madrid, he also Albert Botran He announced that he was leaving politics two days after the general elections.
We are obligated and obliged not to lose hope. I go down from the faristol to get away between nosaltres. Keep going! pic.twitter.com/6Sf1d97PfP
— Eulàlia Reguant Cura (@aramateix) September 17, 2023
It was at the closing ceremony of the CUP summer school, a session conceived as the start of the political course but also as a prelude to the scheduled internal debate, when the leader announced her institutional withdrawal without hiding that the reason has to do with the erosion suffered at the polls. “He country blockade and the disorientation of the movement requires that those of us who are tired and lacking ideas let’s make way“he argued.
In the Parliament, Reguant has until now held the position of spokesperson and his resignation, which will take effect next week, will be added to that announced by the president of the group, Dolors Sabaterwho in June announced that his priority would be to focus on his position as councilor in Badalona, which will force the party to restructure at the parliamentary level. Carles Rierathe oldest member of the group at the moment, is projected as the main reference.
Since he first entered the Parliament in 2015, Reguant has been one of the most prominent leaders of the anti-capitalists. In that first stage he spent two years in the institution, until in 2017, after the most turbulent months experienced as a result of the ‘procés’, he decided to dedicate himself to the role of councilor in Barcelona City Council. However, the party lost representation in the Catalan capital in the 2019 elections and has not regained it, a fact that adds to the loss of representation in Congress. After two years dedicated to the leadership of the party, she returned to be a deputy after the February 2021 elections. In October of last year, she was sentenced to a fine of 13,500 euros for refusing to respond to Vox during the ‘procés’ trial. .
Reposition yourself before the “new political cycle”
Just two days after the general election failure, the leadership of the anti-capitalist party decided to take action on the matter and called on the militancy to open a debate this fall and that it will be extended until May to renew its proposal after verifying that it has not been effective, a process that they foresee that culminate in a congress which will be held with an eye on the next Catalan elections, which must be held before February 2025.
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It is, they consider, about repositioning oneself before “a new political cycle” in which Catalonia is immersed after having left behind the peak moments of the ‘procés’ and with an independence movement incapable of setting a shared course and strategy. At this time, anti-capitalists are critical of the attitude of ERC and Junts de negotiate an amnesty detached from a referendum in exchange for the investiture of Pedro Sanchez.
During this weekend’s sessions, the CUP took stock of the 20 years of party historywhich he has defined as a “key and only actor” of the popular movement in southern Europe, in addition to, in the words of the former representative in Congress Mireia Vehi, having acted as “accelerator of events and processes that are historical.” Now it is time, he assured, to assume an end of the cycle that has taken them with the “changed step”, for which the formation has called on all its militancy, both historical and most recent, to redefine its strategy.