The polls resolved last night the dilemma of the CUP on whether it should continue in the Congress of Deputies. It will not. The anti-capitalists lose the two deputies they have had in the last legislature and thus close the parenthesis of their brief presence in state politics, which has lasted only four years.
“The results are bad. We have not reached the objectives that we set ourselves”, admitted the head of the list for Barcelona, ??Albert Botran, who chose to repeat as deputy together with Mireia Vehí, head of the list for Girona.
Botran appeared before the media with 90% scrutinized, when it was already evident that they had lost practically two thirds of the voters who gave them their confidence in the last generals, in November 2019, and they were left without representation in the next legislature. The formation submitted to its affiliates for consultation if this 23-J was presented and they gave it the green light, but it has been the voters who have decided. In figures, around 97,000 votes have been obtained, 2.81%, compared to 246,000 four years ago, 6.37%.
The candidate confirmed that they have not been able “to pave the way for an alternative that was pro-independence, left-wing and anti-fascist in a context that has become very polarized” between the PSOE and the PP bloc.
However, he defended that the CUP comes from afar and that most of its history has been spent outside the institutions: “Nothing ends today and no one goes home. We have it very clear, ”she assured.
Beyond words, yesterday was another fateful electoral night for the anti-capitalists. The long faces in front of the party headquarters left no room for doubt, because the poor results of these elections are added to those of the municipal ones just two months ago and confirm that they have not been able to cauterize the bleeding of votes.
“You have to do self-criticism,” Botran confirmed in his appearance, in which he assured that the anti-capitalists have to find answers to the loss of confidence of the electorate. “These are homework that we set ourselves and of course we will do,” he said.
The anti-capitalists had focused this campaign on defending a self-determination referendum, which they put as a condition for giving their support to an eventual investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
In the last legislature, in which the objective of “preventing governability” of the State was raised, the CUP has had a residual role. He has not been able to forge strategic alliances with the other pro-independence formations in Congress, and has opposed most of the government’s initiatives, a circumstance that Sánchez himself reproached Vehí in the chamber.
