Teresa Rodríguez returns to Barcelona thanks to the CUP
«Andalusian and Catalan, brother peoples». The leader of Adelante Andalucía returns to Barcelona this Sunday. But this time she does not do it hand in hand with her former Catalan colleagues from Podemos, nor with the commoners, but rather invited by the CUP. The anti-system thus commemorate “the Andalusian Day of December 4, not officially recognized.”
The objective of the day, they add from the CUP, is to “strengthen ties with the Andalusian people in the logic of internationalist solidarity.” Always “understanding the importance of common work to overthrow the regime of 78”.
It is not the first time that Rodríguez has visited Barcelona in a political act. In the crucial regional elections of 21D 2017, after the unilateral proclamation of independence, the Andalusian leader on stage spoke with the then candidate of the Commons, Xavier Domènech, in one of the central acts of the campaign. “I needed to come to Barcelona to make it clear that everything they have done has not been done in my name,” he proclaimed then.
Two years later, it was the mayoress of Barcelona, Ada Colau, who visited Seville to share the stage with Rodríguez at the University of Seville. Weeks after the Supreme Court handed down the sentence of the process Both leaders, then linked to Podemos, defended the need to build bridges between Catalonia and Andalusia. Rodríguez denied the “go for them” and Colau praised the celebration of tributes to Blas Infante in the Catalan capital.
Implosion of the Andalusian left
In recent times, however, the implosion of “the left to the left of the PSOE” in Andalusia has broken Rodríguez’s bridges with the Comunes. Ada Colau has openly aligned herself with Yolanda Díaz’s new project, and the weight of the commons in Catalonia is well above Podemos.
But Teresa Rodríguez has not followed the same path. Not out of fidelity to Podemos, a party with which the divorce was worthy of war of the rose. But because of the crisis after the elections, in which the Adelante Andalucía group split in half, with Rodríguez and his faithful expelled from it as non-members and those responsible for the PCE managing all the power obtained.
Vermouth and Caliphate 3/4
In this context, Rodríguez’s new visit to Barcelona is inscribed, by the CUP presenter in Congress, Mireia Vehí. First, the lawyer Eduardo Cáliz, the deputy in Parliament Basha Changue, the spokesman for the Andalusian Workers Union Néstor Salvador and the musician Lluís Cabrera will discuss the ties between Andalusia and Catalonia.
The end of the party will be put on by the Caliphate 3/4 group and a vermouth -probably Catalan- to seal the creation of a space “in which to reinforce the shared struggles in the conquest of rights with the Andalusian people.”