Rebellion in ERC Barcelona: more than half of the federation's leadership resigns

BarcelonaERC Barcelona is once again experiencing turbulence. Eight of the thirteen members of the federation's leadership have resigned due to disagreements with its president, Creu Camacho. Seven resignations occurred at Thursday evening's meeting, and another followed this morning, as reported by ACN and confirmed by ARA. In the letter sent by the resigning leadership members, which this newspaper has obtained, they state that there is a "structural inability to fulfill" the objectives they set when they took the reins of the federation less than a year ago. "The presidency has chosen to push through its own project, making unilateral decisions, sometimes without consulting the rest of the permanent committee and sometimes even contradicting agreements that had been reached," they denounce in the letter. Among the resigning members are Miquel Colomer, who worked closely with Creu Camacho, and city councilor Rosa Suriñach.

"We received a mandate to work to make the voice of the membership and the Barcelona federation heard within the municipal group. We received a mandate to democratize internal decisions, making them more collective and taking into account the opinions of the grassroots. We received a mandate to work as a team to guarantee collegiality and prevent collegiality from being imposed." They have resigned. They believe that Camacho ran the federation "like a mere administrative office," sources from this group indicate.

For her part, the president of the Barcelona federation sent a letter to the membership on Thursday night to respond to this move. "The dynamics of other times, of constant conflict between internal factions, which have so recently weakened our image, are not the way forward for Esquerra Republicana," Camacho states in the letter, which ARA has also obtained. "The future of Esquerra Republicana in Barcelona must be built on the "The foundations of the common goal of being a strong, leading, and relevant organization in the capital, overcoming old disagreements and looking to the future with unity and ambition," he adds. Underlying all of this is the struggle that critics of the Barcelona federation had with the leadership of Oriol Junqueras and also with the president of the municipal group, Elisenda Alamany. In fact, Camacho presented himself as the alternative to the Republican leader and, against all odds, won the congress by a narrow margin of 14 votes. The leadership that the current president of the federation had formed did not include members of the candidacy presented by Eva Baró, a Junqueras ally. That is to say, it was made up strictly of members of her candidacy who are now turning their backs on her because they believe she has not guaranteed the federation's autonomy with respect to the national leadership and the municipal group. In fact, in the letter they denounce a "subordination" of the Federation to the "interests of the municipal group."