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The situation that Spanish politics is experiencing is for rocambolesque, abstract situations, such as that a party that denies the institutions decides for the first time to run for general elections. It is the case of the CUP. The Catalan radical formation will have a 10-N ballot. Its objective is to subvert the institutional framework from within. His spirit is not to fight in the parliamentary sphere, but "the defense of civil and institutional disobedience a legitimate practice." Their work plan, if they achieve representation, focus "their activity outside the institutional framework, outside a Congress".

That is, the CUP is committed to presenting itself to the generals, but not to occupy its seat in Congress, but to have a legitimacy letter in Madrid for its anti-system commitment. Its roadmap is "to be an instrument of frontal denunciation refusing to participate in any regular parliamentary dynamics as long as it does not advance in the recognition of our rights as a people". The contradiction is to stand for elections to "not participate regularly in a parliamentary activity oriented to co-opt within the system all formations, but we will limit ourselves to participate in the investiture debate, in the general policy debate and in the debate of budgets, although we do not close the door and the possibility of blocking regressive initiatives or strengthening those aimed at breaking the Regime ".

A strategy that refers to the one carried out at the time by Herri Batasuna (HB), who, although they achieved parliamentary representation, refused to carry out ordinary, habitual parliamentary work, limiting their institutional presence on few occasions. For example, in 1982 they violated the regulations of the Lower House, the requirement of oath or the commitment to abide by the constitutional text. Of course, despite their position of not joining the Congress, they did want to maintain their parliamentary prerogatives and economic allocation, a request that was dismissed. In 1989 they did not even attend the constitutive session of the Cortes.

"We are ungovernable. We fight the regime, we extend rebellion" is its motto. Their heads of list have moved to Madrid for its long release, in an appearance at the door of the Congress. But they have not even developed an electoral program. They call it "electoral intervention proposal." "The responsibility of the CUP is to make the exercise of the right to self-determination and the defense of civil and institutional disobedience a legitimate practice in situations of injustice in the face of the impossibility of politically resolving central conflicts for rights and freedoms," they argue. .

"The CUP does not present in these elections an exhaustive electoral program for several reasons. At the outset, we consider that the Spanish State is irreformable and we do not intend its transformation or its governance, on the contrary, that is why we present a proposal for political intervention, and not a typical electoral program, "they explain.

The radical formation rejects that its contest in the general elections supposes to give a letter of nature to the legitimacy of the system, but alleges that it has decided to be present in these elections "to achieve a social mobilization around this political proposal: the fight against the State Spanish and its project of national and class domination, against the regime of 78 with its corrupt monarchy and against all judicial, military and state apparatuses, continuators of Francoism ".

In any case, your bet does not happen to occupy chairs in the next legislature, but to achieve media speakers, spaces to launch your message. A strategy to achieve relevance not effective influence. "It is necessary that the voice of the independentist left be visualized and expressed with all the force possible in the mobilizations against the sentence and, also, throughout the entire electoral campaign," explains the proposal.

"We are going to build and enable new alliances, but we do not plan to find them only in a parliamentary sphere - increasingly separated from the impulse of popular mobilization - but rather in those spaces outside the institutional framework where this mobilization is stimulated and new articulations are articulated political alternatives, oriented again to challenge the regime from below through a destitution process, "he says. The summary of his "initiative": "We do not intend to build an alternative for the Spanish State, since we understand that it is an irreformable State".

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