"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.