The CUP faces a process of “refounding”. After conceding two consecutive bad electoral results in both the municipal and general elections, the leadership of the anti-capitalist party has decided to take action on the matter and call on the militancy to open a debate starting next autumn to renew your proposal after verifying that it has not been effective. They did not manage to enter the city hall of Barcelona and they have also been left out of Congressreason for which the candidate and until now deputy, Albert Botranhas announced this Tuesday that he is retiring from the first line of politics.
In a letter sent to the membershipthe CUP pleads for a “refoundation” of both the organization and the militancy to address what it defines as “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 course and shared strategy. The national secretariat -the direction of the formation- regrets not having made a “good reading of the situationof the climate, of the moment, of the exhaustion and the fatigue” of the movement and admits not having “lived up” when it comes to making their postulates materialize and getting institutional representation.
The organization plans that the debate will begin in the autumn, once it has been validated by the political council, and that it extend until the month of May 2024 with an eye on that their project is redefined when the call for the next Catalan ones arrives, scheduled for 2025. The ‘cupaires’ have asked for “maximum participation and possible openness” to their bases to be able to carry out a process that seems complex and that will be addressed through working groups, debate spaces and territorial and national congresses to culminate in a congress which conceives as a reboot. The objective, summarized, is “to renew the strategic and organizational proposal”, as well as the leadership of the party.
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In fact, the anti-capitalists had already planned to launch an internal debate process right after the municipal elections, plans that were altered by the hasty call for the general elections. Then now They proposed several ways in which they considered they had to deepen: the end of the political cycle, the adaptation of the organization to the new situation and the definition of a new roadmap to overcome the “political blockade” in which they consider that Catalonia is at the moment.
The CUP has not been represented in the Barcelona city council since 2019, a situation that failed to reverse the past in the elections on May 28, and it attended the general elections for the second time last Sunday, when the polls did not revalidate the two deputies they obtained four years ago. Some elections in which the independence movement It dropped below a million votes.