Podem and EUPV have closed the unitary list with which they will join the municipal elections in the city of Valencia, which is headed by Pilar Lima (Podem), with Lara Manyes (EUPV) in second position and Chelo Poveda (Podem) in third place .
The candidacy, with the same number as the regional confluence -Unides Podem-Esquerra Unida-, was presented this Wednesday at a press conference in front of the Torres de Serranos to announce the list. Lara Manyes participated in the event; the coordinator of EUPV, Rosa Pérez Garijo; and the secretary of Organización de Podemos, Carles Fons. This is the list with which both formations, currently without representation in the Valencian council, intend to return to the council of the capital of Turia.
In this way, the top positions on the list of Unides Podem – Esquerra Unida are occupied in first place by the coordinator of Podem, Pilar Lima, followed by Lara Manyes, who is a trade unionist and militant of different social movements in the city, and in third place place Chelo Poveda, spokesperson for Podem in the city. Finally, Pau DÃaz, who was the person chosen by EUPV as the head of the City Council list, although with the expectation of reaching an agreement, will go lower on the list by personal decision.
With this pact, Unides Podem-EU aspires to be “decisive” in the City Council of the capital of Turia and a “retaining wall so that the right and the heiress of Rita Barberà , who is MarÃa José Catalá, does not return”, explained Lima. , which ensures that this candidacy is “the guarantee” to reissue a left-wing government. “We are here because we are necessary and decisive to prevent right-wing policies from returning” and “we can guarantee governability”, she assured.
Lima, which expects “a tremendous mobilization of residents”, has detailed that housing and urban planning will be two key points for its project and, faced with a municipal government “that has not done anything on housing in these last four years”, Unides Podem – EU wants to “transfer” to the Valencia City Council the “vanguard” housing policies implemented by the second vice president of the Generalitat and Minister of Housing, Héctor Illueca.
In the same way, the candidacy wants to “open the melon of remunicipalization” and work for a “livable” and sustainable city, with a focus on care for the elderly, the social rights that “seem to have been a little sections”, and strengthen the day centers and the home help service, so that “it is not in the hands of a Florentino Pérez company, for example”, he commented.
For her part, Lara Manyes has stressed the importance of putting neighborhoods in the center and that public services are local, to achieve “15-minute cities”. In this way, she has underlined the need to reinforce citizen involvement from the neighborhoods and “bring all public services closer together”.
Likewise, she has recognized that closing the confluence “has been difficult because the negotiations are always long but it has been very positive to be able to reach this point”, but she has been convinced that attending together is “the way to be able to promote left-wing policies”. and “transformers” that sometimes “are hard to get to”.
In this sense, he has indicated that the two parties have similar programs and “many points in common”, in addition to “a very close way of seeing politics”.
From Podem, Carles Fons has pointed out that this candidacy is added to those that have been agreed in more than 50 municipalities, in line with the “strategic commitment to a policy of alliances that allows the Botanic to be reissued at the regional level and in the city councils to give to decisive policies”.
Likewise, regarding the candidacies in Castelló de la Plana and Alicante, he explained that “in the next few days” different agreements will be presented throughout the Community and that in these two cities it is just closing. “But surely we will have agreements in the big cities,” he added.
Rosa Pérez Garijo, for her part, has remarked that EUPV “has always opted to join other political forces and has demonstrated it throughout history”. She has assured that they are “very happy” to have closed an agreement with Podem that was “necessary and has indicated that” sometimes, things turn out better when it takes time “.
Likewise, he has assured that the coalition is “much more mature than four years ago” and has stressed that it is “a strong commitment to transform policies” as they have done in the Botanic.
