The spokesperson for Adelante Andalucía, José Ignacio García, defended this Friday his party's decision to run alone in the upcoming general elections, without joining coalitions like the Broad Front, promoted by Izquierda Unida and Movimiento Sumar, among other organizations, and has claimed the convenience, in his opinion, for Andalusia to have “an Andalusian party that defends the Andalusian working class in the Congress of Deputies”.
In statements to 'La 1' of TVE, García asked: “Why should Andalusia be questioned and (that option) not be questioned in other territories, in Catalonia, in Euskadi, in Galicia?”. The Andalusian leader framed this commitment in the need for the community to have its own voice in the Lower House.
An Andalusian party for the working class
José Ignacio García explained that one of the reasons why he defends Adelante running alone in the general elections on November 29 is for Andalusia to have in Congress “an Andalusian party that defends the working class” of a community that, as he stressed, has “the largest population in all of Spain”.
The spokesperson for Adelante also insisted that “a different left is needed, one that connects with what is happening in society, that is not always subordinate to the PSOE, that is not the government's left, which has disappointed so much,” before emphasizing his conviction that “spaces can be expanded” within the left.
“I don't want to take a single vote from Podemos-Izquierda Unida”
In that vein, García stated that he does not want to “take a single vote from Podemos-Izquierda Unida,” parties to whom he wished “all the luck in the world,” because he does not intend to “fight with the left,” but rather to “expand” that space, something he considers possible because, as he recalled, “four months ago” it was demonstrated in the Andalusian elections on May 17, and now he predicts that “another leap” will occur.
The spokesperson for Adelante added that what “really worries him,” and he believes all left-wing people, is that in the next elections “the right and the far-right win.” “That is my obsession, and I believe that the best way to take votes away from the right and the far-right is not to continue with the mess of the 'little fights' of the left,” he added, to defend that the best formula involves “a different left, that connects, that does other things.”
The May results and the expansion strategy
José Ignacio García has highlighted that Adelante Andalucía “quadrupled” its seats in the Andalusian Parliament in the elections of May 17, going from two to eight, and that it was above Vox in Seville and Cadiz, all of this “without taking a single seat from Izquierda Unida and Podemos”, as he has pointed out.
According to his account, Adelante managed to connect with “people who might have stayed home if the option to vote for this formation had not been there”, and he has stressed that this contributed to taking away the absolute majority from the PP-A in the Andalusian Parliament, although the objective of preventing it from continuing to govern, now in coalition with Vox, was not achieved.
“Therefore, we believe we are expanding the space”, he summarized, in a context in which, in his opinion, working people and young people may have as their only channel for discontent issues such as housing, prices, the shopping basket or healthcare, and end up directing it towards “the racism of Vox, by the far right, by anger”. Against this, he has defended that Adelante opens “a door” for that discomfort to be directed against “the true culprits, those who privatize healthcare or those who are speculating”.
The lists by provinces and the head of the ticket
Finally, asked who will be the head of the list for Adelante Andalucía in the general elections, José Ignacio García replied that it will be announced “in these days”. In any case, he promised that the formation will run with “eight wonderful people” heading the lists for the eight Andalusian provinces, of whom he predicted that they will play “a brutal role defending the working people of Andalusia in Congress”.
