At the beginning of 2019 we took on the responsibility of constituting the new municipal executive, elected by the local collective, with the aim of presenting a project that would restore political life in the town after years of what we understood as apathy and paralysis. We came from a legislature in which Vicent Colomer He had worked very alone, without activity in the group and at the same time assuming the responsibility of management in a demanding department such as Sports. To overcome this, we set out to add: we set out to build, from the foundations of Valencianism, the common home of those who care about the defense of our people: the environment, an economy at the service of people and not mass tourism of universal access
to housing, electricity and water, all from an ecological and transversal feminist perspective.
And for this reason, to build an alternative for the present and the future, we thought that we needed new and young faces, to make people understand that in institutional politics we all have to be protagonists and not just spectators.
To make this possible, we started a round of contacts with associations, groups and related people, with the aim of presenting a list that was in accordance with the project, that clearly represented the principles of the party and the will to open up to the rest of society.
With this work we managed to make the youngest list in Xàbia with an average under 30 years of age and with more female participation than ever. The effort to renew people and projects allowed us to add one more alderman to those we had. Despite everything, our 827 votes left us in opposition to a PSPV that had revalidated its absolute majority.
Despite this, for the last 4 years we have tried to fulfill the mandate that we received in the 2019 elections from the opposition: we have put on the table the issues that no one was talking about, from the protection of the coast, the change in the productive model, the control of mass tourism or the recovery of democratic memory; putting the social rights that we brought to the program - housing, energy, water - at the center and including perspectives of sustainability and healing that we missed. And some things we feel like successes: in aspects such as mobility, energy or the protection of the coastline, not only have we managed to open debates but also the other parties, starting with the government, come closer to our positions. We have known how to confront but also agree when it has been necessary -for example, in the pandemic- and we think that at the gates of 2023 the common sense of Xàbia is more similar to ours than it was four years ago. And in this sense, we believe that our commitment to remain in a constructive opposition has been a success.
We arrived at this fall with the desire to continue, to give new impetus to what we started in 2019 and willing to lead an alternative in that direction. Because we believe that change happens to add those who are missing and normally do not approach local politics, and that to do so we have to talk more about collective projects and less about salaries and places on the lists. But to do all this, we have lacked support from home, from our group: we have found important project differences, where our will to open up and go further has not been shared; and even more so, we have encountered attitudes and even lack of personal respect that have forced us to say a lot and rethink our own position.
That is why today we have presented our resignation to the different organic positions that we have in Compromís por Xàbia, as well as to present ourselves to lead the list for the 2023 elections. We leave the local executive and the spokesperson for the group, in addition to the regional and national positions that Juan Cardona also held-Compromís. And the main reason is the incompatibility of our project with that of the majority of the militancy of the local Compromís collective.
However, we want to take advantage of this writing to intensify our commitment to our 2019 mandate: out of respect for the 827 people who supported us in the last elections, to whom we are very grateful, we will complete the legislature for which we were elected. In addition, we will do it without ceasing to support and be linked to Compromís, which we believe is the best project for a green, feminist, progressive and Valencian alternative for our country, and from the conviction that Joan Baldoví will be the best possible President of the Generalitat .
Until always, sincerely Vicent, Juan and Llúcia.
They don't even know how to express themselves in Spanish. And they want to perpetuate that with Compromis? If they want to reach more people, what less than to do it in an intelligible way.
Excuse me, but would it be possible at least a summary of the article in Spanish?
But what are you saying????
LOL..