The almost four years in the CUP Congress have not been a passing adventure. He will repeat in Madrid. This has been decided by his militancy in the vote that he had to decide if the formation presented lists for the general elections on July 23. 1,282 people have participated and 61% of them have endorsed the candidacy. The political council of the organization this morning in Sant Pere de Ribes has served to verify these numbers. With the renewal of trust in their representatives, there will be four pro-independence candidacies with current representation in the Lower House that will compete: Esquerra, Junts and PDECat (the latter under the Espai CiU brand), in addition to the CUP itself.
The militants have faced an assembly process this week with a final vote this Friday in which they had to choose first between two options: whether to participate in the general elections or not. And in case of opting for the second option, they had to choose between whether the CUP requested abstention or a null vote.
Finally, the most valued has been to appear at the generals. Albert Botran as number one in Barcelona and Mireia Vehà leading the list in Girona will choose to return to collect the deputy act. Laure Vega -current member of the CUP’s national secretariat- will accompany Botran, while Robert Sabater will form alongside VehÃ. Edgar Fernà ndez will lead the project in Tarragona together with Pepa Plana, while the list for Lleida is yet to be defined.
It will be the second time that the anti-capitalists appear. Consecutively, moreover, since in the second elections of 2019, those of November, they formed lists at a time when the conviction of nine of the independence leaders of 1-O was boiling. The text that he approved advocated “preventing governability” in Spain until the right to self-determination was recognized and assured that “in no case does the candidacy have the objective of normalizing institutional political activity in the State”, while criticizing the predisposition of parties like ERC to negotiate with the PSOE.
At that time, the voting was weighted among the formations that support the CUP and the result was the closest: 30 votes in favor against 29 against. In April he had refused to appear, giving wings to the Front Republicà brand, whose most visible face was that of the former leader of Podem Albano-Dante FachÃn. The bet did not materialize and he did not get representation. Today the couperos find reasons again despite the climate of almost zero sovereignist mobilization and will continue to diversify efforts with their parliamentary activity in Catalonia, in the municipalities and in Madrid.
This time, the CUP assures that it is presenting itself, in addition to defending self-determination, to wage “a battle of ideas in a context of a reactionary wave”, given the possibility that the PP and Vox will settle in Moncloa. An idea that the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, takes for granted, given the results obtained by the right and the ultra-right in the municipal elections two weeks ago.
The participation of the “Cuperos” in the July 23 elections is partly an amendment to the abstention that some pro-independence sectors are promulgating as a way of punishing the main pro-independence parties.
