Izquierda Unida Canaria is committed to running together with Sumar, Yolanda Díaz's project, in the general elections on July 23, as already announced by the general secretary of the political formation in Spain, Alberto Garzón.
The left-wing formation in the Canary Islands held a meeting last Thursday afternoon, in which the national coordinator met with its island coordinators "to decide the strategy for the new electoral process."
Izquierda Unida in the Canary Islands has gathered its highest decision-making body to assess the situation of the Autonomous Community after the municipal and regional elections on May 28, as well as the debacle of the left.
In addition, in that space, the strategy to be followed by the political formation in the face of the new scenario opened by the call for general elections in just a month and a half, on July 23, has been designed. In which they hope that they can "correct the mistakes made and bet on uniting the entire political, social and independent spectrum to defend the rights of the working class and the social majority in the islands."
The division of the left and the entry of the far right
The general coordinator has a representation of the Island coordinations, which allows a closer analysis of the reality that is currently experienced on each island and municipality of the archipelago. Likewise, IU reveals in a statement that "we observe with concern the arrival of the extreme right to the different institutions of our Archipelago, which could endanger social advances achieved."
On the other hand, they affirm that "the results make clear the consequences of the division of the left that have led to the loss of institutional representation in the different administrations. From IUC we see with concern the context that opens in the islands, with new governments of the right together with the nationalist right, with internal or external support from the extreme right both at the autonomous and several island and local levels, which endanger the defense of the territory, the financing of public services and the maintenance of social and citizen rights."
The left-wing formation "assumes the challenge of rebuilding the space of unity, working to overcome divisions between political parties, which share a large part of the electoral programs with which they have presented themselves. From IUC, we collect the testimony that the citizens have sent us from the polls, which severely punishes the dismemberment of the unity of action in defense of the rights of the popular classes and the heritage and identity of our land."
According to the political formation, the reconstruction of the space of the left necessarily involves recovering the organization, building a common workspace between all the forces of the left. As well as joint work spaces with citizens, in social, neighborhood, environmental movements, for labor rights, feminists,... in the defense of the rights of the majority.
"From the humility and the feeling that it is time to join efforts, from Izquierda Unida Canaria we appeal to all political forces with an interest in progress and sustainable development in the islands, to the social movements that protect public and quality education with roots in our land; to those of Health severely affected by the shortage of personnel and with endless waiting lists that want to divert to the private sphere wasting the money of the Canarian people; to those who have defended tooth and nail our natural and cultural heritage against an outdated model that seeks to kick us out of our homes by a gentrification in our towns and neighborhoods; and to all those groups and people on an individual basis who seek an alternative to the current model that drowns us every day and that makes the poor poorer and the rich richer."
From the national coordinator of IUC they consider that "the best way to join efforts and defend the interests of the majority is to bet" on the Sumar Project with the Vice President and Minister of Labor Yolanda Díaz at the head, so that she is the next President of the Government of the Spanish State. The illusion that has awakened in the working classes, with the impulse of the Minimum Interprofessional Wage and with a different way of doing politics, away from the daily noises, make her the best political asset for the transforming left of this country.
Therefore, in the coming days, IUC will work, in contact with the different political and social forces to encourage them to join the beginning of the work of recovering the left in the Canary Islands in a broad space, of care and with respect for the citizen mandate that came out of the polls.