The CUP does not close the door to entering Government and proposes to postpone the debate until after 14-F

BarcelonaCUP's political council's approval last Saturday of a document that refuses to allow the CUP to enter the government and advocates that it remain in opposition caused a political earthquake that can still be felt. Three days before the start of the campaign, the anti-capitalist group has convened a new extraordinary political council tomorrow in which it leaves the door open to entering a future government and proposes postponing the debate on whether or not to enter the executive until after the elections. The document also advocates a choral campaign where the rest of the candidates have a presence - rather than everything revolving around the head of the CUP list, Dolors Sabater.

This new document, prepared by the national secretariat and the campaign committee and to which the ARA has had access, defends that "the debate on governance be resolved, as always, at the appropriate time and in the decision-making bodies of our organisation and candidacy, as established in all internal governance documents". In this way, the management of the cupaires proposes postponing the debate on the assumption of responsibilities in the next government until the elections are over, as it did in previous elections. Today, the secretariat is meeting with the territorial assemblies and the campaign leaders from all over the country to explain the document before it is voted on tomorrow via telematic means.

The text of the secretariat reduces the pretensions of disassociating oneself from the entry into a hypothetical government as proposed in the document approved by a large majority on Saturday. The text, ratified by 32 votes in favor, 14 against and 8 abstentions, warned that "responsibility does not mean either entering any government or supporting it from outside with any stability pact" but rather "confronting austerity governments and renunciations at a national level" and demanded that the CUP remain in opposition.

Now the CUP emphasises in the text that "it is ready to assume all responsibilities with determination and to the last consequences to advance in the conquest of the rights of our people, also institutional responsibilities where necessary", but warns that it will do so "without losing the political and social autonomy essential so that it is not the institution that co-opts the [CUP's] transformational potential for the benefit of its stability". In this sense, the CUP denounces that the Government "has not adopted the necessary measures to face the pandemic, nor a shock plan due to the crisis and not only has it not advanced towards independence, but it has not confronted the State", highlighting the distance it maintains with JxCat and ERC.

In a harsh denunciation of the two major pro-independence forces, the CUP recalls that this is a government that "in the midst of a pandemic, signed a contract for track and trace with Ferrovial, tainted by the illegal financing of the 3% corruption scandal", which "continues to send the Brimo and the Arro to exercise police brutality against neighbours who self-organise to stop evictions," that act as "a private accusation against the independence movement," or that "approves privatisation laws such as the Aragonès law".

Another of the changes proposed in the document is to promote a choral campaign, something that the leadership assures that it has been doing for the last two weeks, with acts and press conferences where different candidates are present and not just Dolors Sabater. The objective is that the campaign is choral to show "the diversity" of a candidacy formed by different organisations, which have become suspicious of the preferential treatment that has been given to Guanyem Catalunya. The assembly of Valls had claimed to recover "the message of collectivity, teamwork and assembly" in a text validated by a large majority also on Saturday.

The number 3 of the candidacy, Eulàlia Reguant, already advanced Sunday that they would make changes in the campaign because the CUP is an "unapologetically assembly-based" party where people "decide collectively". As a result of this document which was approved by a large majority and which stated that "responsibility does not mean either entering any government nor supporting it from outside with a stability pact" but rather "confronting governments of austerity and renunciations at a national level". This was a clear warning to Guanyem Catalunya after Sabater stated a few days after she was elected that they were "prepared" to govern.