Endavant expelled Laure Vega for her commitment to creating a Catalan Sumar and getting closer to the PSC.

BarcelonaEndavant, one of the main currents of the CUP, celebrated its 25th anniversary a month ago. Despite controlling fact The CUP organization is still not in its best moment, at least internally. According to ARA, Endavant expelled Laure Vega before the summer for the same reasons that CUP MP Laia Estrada, also from Endavant, expelled her. to leave his seat in Parliament. What was the reason for the decision? Vega is committed to forming a united candidacy in the upcoming elections with Comuns and ERC and reaching agreements with the PSC, which led Endavant to decide to expel her. Sources from the anti-capitalist organization confirm Vega's expulsion, but avoid giving further details of her departure.

In fact, Vega was already reprimanded by the CUP for having attended, of her own volition and not at the request of the party, the preparatory meetings for the new space of the Catalan left, which the ERC spokesperson in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, also wants. extrapolate to SpainIgnoring the directives of the CUP national secretariat, which prohibited him from attending these meetings, Vega continued to attend and meet with the main supporters of this new space, namely Joan Tardà, from the ERC; Xavier Domènech, from the Comuns party; and former CUP deputies David Fernández and Anna Gabriel. In fact, this week Rufián also clashed with the national leadership of Esquerra. to explore plurinational alliances.

Now, if Laure Vega, who remains a member of Parliament, has already been expelled from Endavant, why hasn't the CUP closed ranks with Laia Estrada? "The inertia has been to give in so as not to create conflict, but the problem is that in order not to break away, we enter a dynamic of taking one step forward and then taking three steps back," say Endavant sources. Underlying this reflection was the fear that Vega would not give up her seat as a member and would become unaffiliated, remaining in the Catalan parliament. "The priority of the [CUP] secretariat is stability and denying conflict, and Laia Estrada exposed one, and no small one," other sources point out, referring to the strategic disagreement over whether to opt for the rupture path—the one advocated by Estrada—or to forge ties with other left-wing organizations.

"Rupturism or ruffianism"

"The key to the conflict is [Vega's] proposal to mount a united candidacy," CUP sources clarify, emphasizing that it is a very minority position among the membership but supported by people with influence. "It is in no way a battle between Endavant and Poble Lliure," they add, referring to the historical disputes between the two major CUP factions. In this regard, Poble Lliure (PL) issued a statement on Thursday regretting Estrada's resignation and emphasizing her "clearly committed track record for the independence movement," in contrast, without explicitly naming her, to Vega's, which prioritizes the social agenda. In fact, when the two CUP leaders faced off in the primaries to be the head of the list in Parliament, Poble Lliure had already opted for Estrada.

La Forja, the youth movement of Poble Lliure, went further on Thursday and created a thread on X accusing Vega, also without naming her, of leading the party to "Spanish positions" within the pro-independence left, "diluting the disruptive and transformative essence of the movement." A thread that they deleted after a few minutes due to the uproar it raised within the party.

"The dichotomy between disruptiveness and thuggishness is the key to everything," other sources add, graphically exposing Estrada's distancing from the new strategy in Parliament. The straw that broke the camel's back for the Tarragona MP, but also for Endavant, was the pact with the PSC for the housing decree With this, the CUP broke the Socialist veto for the first time, although the executive didn't need the votes of the anti-capitalists. The dispute between Estrada and Vega, then, grew until the situation became unsustainable, and the former opted to step aside.