The Comuns have completed their National Assembly this Sunday with the approval and presentation of the new executive led by the deputy in Congress Candela Lopez and the councilor in Barcelona Gemma Tarafa, who has warned that Catalunya en Comú “It’s not anyone’s crutch.“. The new national coordinators – who take over from Ada Colau and Jéssica Albiach, although López already held the position – have expressed the need to maintain the balance between “taking care of the internal organization” and focusing their efforts on the next 2027 municipal elections. Likewise, they have conspired to lead the transformation that prioritizes citizenship and the addressing climate change and for stop the reactionary wave.
“We have to go out into the streets more and make our languages more pedagogical and accessible. We are a brave, transformative and useful left that has not bowed down to the elites,” Tarafa pointed out. During his speech at the Ciutadella Campus of the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, he expressed the need to “reconnect with people“in a complex socioeconomic and political context, marked by the housing crisis and the climate emergency. “We have a key role in forcing the Socialist Party in Barcelona, in Catalonia and in the State”, he added.
He has been supported by López, who has assured that they close this assembly with the conviction that the work done will “allow them to move forward.” According to her, they are here to represent voiceless people and to convince that politics is a “powerful tool” to change things. The Comuns want to rebuild a project from all corners of Catalonia and, to do so, from now on they will have a team that combines “renewal and experience”, with views from all over Catalonia and with a “municipalist spirit”. Of the 47 members of the new management, 20 are new additions.
The responsibility of stopping the extreme right
For her part, the president of the parliamentary group of Catalunya en Comú, Jessica Albiach ―who will occupy a newly created position shared with Ernest Urtasun, the party’s institutional managers―, has called on the collaboration of the progressive left to “open a new path”. In this sense, he has called on the rest of the leftist forces to do not agree with the right“no matter how independent they are.” According to her, Junts considers housing as a business, gives in to Repsol’s interests and wants to lower taxes on the rich.
The Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, has followed him and reiterated the “great responsibility” that Catalunya en Comú bears on its shoulders: defend “tooth and nail” the progressive government against the reactionary wave. “After Trump or Meloni and the PP allying themselves with the extreme right in Europe, I have a dream. I hope that, in 10 years, when we meet again in an assembly like this, we can look at each other and say that we managed to make Spain an exception in rights and freedoms”.
Vote to punish the outgoing executive of Ada Colau
In the first part of the second day, the Comuns They have approved the political and organizational presentation with 80% of the support of the bases. The text, which received 389 votes in favor, 60 against and 33 abstentions, supports strong self-government for Catalonia, based on unique financing and recognition of the plurinational and plurilingual character of the State.
The presentation also confirms that The last electoral cycle has not been “positive” for Catalunya en Comú, in a different climate than a decade ago and in a period of “lesser political mobilization.” To reverse this trend, the Commons have placed the municipal elections of 2027 as “a first-level strategic challenge” and have expressed the need to grow and build a social political majority that allows them to challenge a “very broad social space.”
In this Sunday’s votes, a modification to the statutes was also approved and the executive management report was validated. The militancy of the Commons has punished the outgoing leadership of Ada Colau with 46.25% of the votes in favor. 36.19% voted against and 17.56% chose to abstain.
Reduction of working hours and quality public services
After the approval of the first six resolutions this Saturday, the bases of the formation have validated the remaining twelve texts this Sunday. Among other proposals, the Commons demand rreduce the working day to 37.5 hours this 2024 ―with the desire to promote the 32-hour day by 2030― and defend the free education from zero years and primary care.
Likewise, they are also committed to the control and public management of natural resources such as water, for one own electoral law “more proportional” and for the elimination of “any type of religious symbology in official acts in public places.”
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