Carolina Cordero, IU Madrid’s spokesperson and former Parla city councilor, won the primary election and will now lead IU Madrid. This candidacy, supported by the outgoing leadership, outperformed the candidate of Yolanda Hidalgo, an alternative supported by party figures such as former mayor Rivas Pedro del Cura, former Madrid vice mayor Mauricio Valiente, former Madrid economic councilor Carlos Sánchez Mato, Rivas mayor Aida Castillejo, and former congressman Willy Meyer. list. The results are expected to be ratified at the Region II Congress on November 15th and 16th.
Carolina Cordero presented herself with the mission of creating a single list at a time that she considered “important for the left,” but in reality it was not. He emphasized his candidacy in a tweet, saying, “During the campaign, this is what we said. This is what the outcome would be and there was no need for a confrontational rally.”
“The time has come to restore Izquierda Unida’s presence in our region,” Cordero stressed, stressing that he will work “with continuity with the projects started and with the previous leadership,” in a statement compiled by Agence Europa Press. Cordero calls for an agreement among organizations on a coherent and flexible left-wing option that would allow the organization to restore its “historic weight” in the Community of Madrid and its local government, and thereby confront “the rise of the far right and the neoliberal tendencies of the government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso.”
Álvaro Aguilera, IU Madrid’s current regional coordinator who announced earlier this term that he would be his last regional coordinator, publicly endorsed Cordero as the future regional coordinator. “Given the weak situation and reactionary rise of the Madrid left, there is a need to stand and fight with firm and real solidarity. There may be political differences, but turning to a new internal struggle is an irresponsibility that the working class of this region does not deserve.”
Cordero’s candidacy argued that the debate over convergence and the IU’s role in the process, first at Unidas Podemos and then at Sumar, had been “surmounted by the facts.” “A series of processes from the top have shown to fail one after another, and there is agreement on the need to respect the autonomy of each operative in his political positions and to give visibility to the most territorial organization, Izquierda Unida,” he asserted.
Meanwhile, he added that the entire Madrid IU is “united” around “the alliance policy agreed this spring at the federal level” and “the need to promote unified candidacy of the left in the next municipal and regional elections.”
Yolanda Hidalgo leads alternative candidates
Yolanda Hidalgo was supported by “a large section of the Madrid Federation, in which some of the most prominent figures belong.” “Thank you for your 40% support. Political debate is a collective victory,” the candidate himself said in a video broadcast on social networks.
Mr. Hidalgo spearheaded a team of equals and an alternative candidate, a working-class teleoperator “from a very southern background,” taking into account the territorial balance and the presence of “historically underrepresented sectors such as immigrants and people with disabilities.” The candidates were made up of extremists from the PCE, Frente Amplio, Izquierda Republicana, and Debate y Programmers. This alternative project had the support of the IU, especially the representatives of the municipalities of Rivas and Alcorcón, and the militants of the city of Madrid and grassroots assemblies of towns within the community.
This alternative political document proposes an alternative to “Madrid as a neoliberal laboratory” and is self-critical, noting that IU Madrid has failed to become a political instrument capable of transforming the Madrid Council. To this they add criticism of the “irrelevance of autonomy, the abandonment of ties to social movements and the lack of opposition to the right,” although they see “solid foundations for a new phase.” “Without Izquierda Unida, the Community of Madrid will not change. We are the levers of change,” they said, rejecting their candidacy.
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