The former spokesperson for Unidas Podemos in the Madrid Assembly and candidate for the presidency of the Community in the last elections, Alejandra Jacinto, announced this Monday that she is leaving the direction of the purple party and institutional politics.
Jacinto, who has been part of the Podemos Executive since 2021 as person in charge of the housing area in the Podemos management, has announced this through a publication on the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, in which she said that ” It has been a pride to be part of the leadership” of that party that in the last regional elections in May did not obtain parliamentary representation in the Madrid Assembly as it did not reach the required minimum of 5% of the votes.
Jacinto, who said goodbye with the maxim that has accompanied her since she took the step from activism to politics in 2021: “We will continue to find ourselves defending the right to housing and just causes”, will return to her professional activity as a lawyer in the area of ??the right to housing.
The already former purple spokesperson understands that the current political situation “contains elements of great complexity and difficult balances between the various identities that participate in the vocation for social change. This represents an enormous opportunity for progress for the profound transformation that our country needs in areas such as the effectiveness of social rights, feminism, the fight against the climate crisis, the plurinational reality of the state and democratic improvement,” he continues. Therefore, she predicts that “collective success will largely depend on the best tendencies of cooperation between the various actors prevailing. It is this cooperation that I have always opted for in my career.”
Jacinto was one of the first voices from Podemos to join Yolanda Díaz’s project weeks before the 23-J campaign, describing the Galician as “the best Minister of Labor” and “who best represents the political space of the left of change” revealing his distancing from the official thesis of the purple party.
In fact, she was appointed Sumar’s campaign spokesperson on housing, applying her maxim that “confluence, diversity and cooperation at the service of common objectives of social change mark the way for authentic revolutions.”
