The deputy of the CUP Eulàlia Reguant announced this Sunday that she leaves the act of deputy in the Parliament and puts herself at the service of this organization, since her intention is “to work for the process of national debate that the CUP is starting this year”.
Reguant has announced his departure at the closing of the summer school of the independence and anti-capitalist organization, which was held in Barcelona.
The CUP leader has stated that she is not going “home” and has stressed that a course is beginning “that must be key to popular unity” which is why, in her opinion, they must address it “with all the necessary depth and complexity.” the necessary strategy” to unlock Catalonia.
The event was attended by ex-deputy Mireia Vehí, deputies Xavier Pellicer, Montserrat Vinyets and Dolors Sabater, as well as members of the National Secretariat, such as Edgar Fernández, Laure Vega and Maria Sirvent.
Reguant entered the Parliament almost eight years ago, in the 27-S elections on the CUP Crida Constituent candidacy. She has also been a councilor of Barcelona and was tried by the Supreme Court for an alleged crime of serious disobedience for her refusal to respond to the popular accusation made by Vox when he testified in the “procés” trial in January 2019.
The Supreme Court sentenced her to pay a fine of 13,500 euros for serious disobedience, a ruling that the deputy has appealed to the Constitutional Court.
The leader of the CUP has explained that these have been “very intense and turbulent years. With moments of joy and moments of frustration” and has been convinced that after the internal debate that her party begins and with the necessary “self-criticism” the The result will be positive, “adding and multiplying proposals and gaining momentum.”
Eulàlia Reguant concluded her speech by assuring that she is leaving the Parliament to “roll up her sleeves” with her colleagues and wanted to highlight that she is not going “home”, but rather that she wants to “work, build and project from other places to collectively advance with popular unity.” “.
Mireia Vehí, for her part, has valued the CUP summer school as a space “for critical, diverse, heterogeneous thinking” that has shown that this training “is a reference” for the left.
The former deputy has considered that the political cycle that opened in 2014 “has come to an end and the CUP has been left with a changed pace” so they are “rolling up their sleeves” in this process of internal debate.
To do this, they call on those who began militancy 20 years ago “and also on the people who are yet to arrive,” on those who open their doors with the conviction that “the challenge is very great.”
More than 600 people have participated in the CUP summer school between Friday and this Sunday, in a session that anti-capitalists see as a success.
