This Saturday, in Álava, he held a working day under the title “Udalak martxan” to bolster the party’s strategy for the election, advocating for “city council” in the face of discontent.
Podemos Euskadi started the project today “Udalak Martxan” that looks at the municipal and regional elections, with the aim of regaining lost support and dealing with citizens’ dissatisfaction with politics by focusing on ‘municipal council’.
For example, members of the party met in Arcos de Quejana (Álava), where the secretary of the party’s state-level organization, Lilith Verstrynge, assured that “now more than ever we must do municipal“to address citizens’ dissatisfaction with politics and return the party to what “it was and will remain”.
“We have to put a lot of energy into municipal politics, because that’s what brings us back to what we were and want to stay,” Verstrynge summed up.
Vertrynge has the “frustrationthat could have been generated after the entry of Podemos into the coalition government of Pedro Sánchez, as they arrived with the intention of “turning the system completely on its head” and ran into limits that “make it visible that through many changes whatever you want, not everything will always be on your side”.
Citizens’ “Discontent” with Politicians
He has spoken of citizens’ “dissatisfaction” with politicians and the importance of reconnecting people and has assured that municipal politics can be a good tool to meet this challenge. That is why he has asked the militants and party officials who travel to Euskadi without leaving a single municipality.
Pilar Garrido, the general coordinator of the purple formation in the Basque Country, also spoke at the opening of this working day, accusing the Basque government of not responding to the crisis because society is becoming “more unequal, with more poverty” and has said that they are working to be an alternative to the municipal and provincial governments of the PNV and PSE.
Let’s start the day #UdalakMartxan A meeting to strengthen ties, share experiences and gain strength in the face of upcoming challenges.
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– We Can / Ahal Dugu (@PodemosEuskadi_) July 2, 2022
For example, he has said that it is “urgent” to extraordinary load taxing the “multi-million dollar” profits of the energy oligopoly and tackling a “fairer” tax reform to build a “more egalitarian” country.
He has emphasized that to promote change it is necessary to start at the municipal level and has assured that his party has demonstrated that where citizens are, they have the “certainty” that there is more “equality, rights and participation”.
He has also advocated building a “counter-hegemonic bloc” to present an alternative project to govern Euskadi.” “A Basque, multiple, left-wing political space that unites different voices in a common project. Proud to be Basque, but also to share ties, affection and the future with the people who live in the state… to form a common project of coexistence with the rest of the peoples of the state,” added he to it.
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Source: EITB
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