The resignation of Laia Estrada as a CUP deputy, a decision that both she and the party announced yesterday, This has been brewing for months. A little less than a year ago, the anti-capitalists completed a process aimed at refounding the party, from which a new political committee emerged. And as the party has implemented its new strategy in Parliament, Estrada's disagreements with the CUP's activity in the chamber have increased, to the point that the party's former leader in the last elections considers the party's actions insufficiently disruptive. This is a fundamental discussion about the CUP's strategy, between the so-called reformists and those who advocate for a strategy of rupture and combat, which is what Estrada would like.

"Everything is open to debate," the CUP stated just before beginning its refounding process. Everything except the principles that govern the CUP, which are based on the concepts of independence, socialism, feminism, and the Catalan Countries, they clarified. The recent setbacks at the polls, in which they were eliminated from three of the four capital cities in the municipal elections, lost representation in Congress, and were left with four deputies in Parliament, forced the anti-capitalist party to open a thorough debate to once again establish itself as an alternative in a context of demobilization that is working against it. And so it did.