Las Palmas De Gran Canaria (EFE) height of vision ”at the same time that he has stressed that in Podemos the policies should matter more than the positions on an electoral list.
In statements to the media to report on the electoral strategy of the purple formation and the start of the vote to approve the confluence with Izquierda Unida Canaria (IUC) and Sí Se Puede (SSP), Fuentes thanked the work of Ramírez, who in A letter published this Sunday in the Canary Islands7 announced her intention not to run on any electoral list after receiving “pressure” to cede her position as a candidate for the Cabildo to the IUC Organization Secretary, Antonio Pérez Marrero.
Ramírez had won the primaries to run as number one for the island corporation with more than 90%, although Fuentes recalled that this does not have to be the list for the Cabildo and that, as in other elections, it is always subject to change. if independent or people linked to other formations of a new confluence enter.
“It is not the first nor the last time that the lists move based on whether there are independent people or there are confluence agreements. She would always have been our number one”, pointed out Fuentes, who clarified that if during the negotiation between the directions the head of the list were ceded to another formation, Ramírez would go second.
“We are sorry that you did not wait for the result of the consultation,” said the regional coordinator of Podemos on the islands, referring to the internal process through which Podemos will endorse or not the decision to attend together with IUC and SSP and in the Nearly 1,000 people have already participated.
In his opinion, since there is a confluence “there must be height of vision and generosity” and he has pointed out that if Podemos did not give in “there would be no agreement.”
Thus, he has rejected that “personal projects are above a confluence or a collective project like Podemos”.
“What we have communicated is what each of the forces had requested. Not only the Cabildo de Gran Canaria was requested, but also that of Fuerteventura, La Palma and other spaces. In some they have given in and others not and we had to negotiate until the end, but we were not clear who would be the heads ”, Fuentes related.
In this sense, he has said that he has asked his colleagues for discretion, although he has slipped that “the rush” publicly brought out “something that later could not continue fighting.”
“No one comes here for the charges or positions, it is assumed that Podemos represents another political project in which we have to care more about policies to improve people’s lives than the number that each one occupies on the list,” he insisted. .
Asked about the low representation of the IUC in the institutions and the low number of votes and how surprising it could be to give that formation the head of the Cabildo list, Fuentes pointed out that they have fought for that position and all the positions “with tooth and nail ”.
“It is not worth it for me to be criticized when we are generous, when we are arrogant, when we achieve or not a confluence, that we are also criticized,” he has wielded.
Lastly, she lamented the “atomization of the left” and said she was “tired” of internal conflicts being discussed “in the press. EFE
