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The Anticapitalist sector of Podemos, led by the general secretary of the party in Andalusia , Teresa Rodríguez, and MEP Miguel Urbán , will foreseeably decide next February 16 not to participate in the III State Citizen Assembly of the March party, as they have informed Europe Press sources of this collective.

This decision, which will be taken at the meeting of the Confederal Coordinator - the governing body of this sector - on February 16 , may be the previous step to a possible exit of the party at the state level, if so decided at the Conference that the anti-capitalists will celebrate on March 28, the weekend after the third Assembly of Podemos.

According to the sources consulted, the different territorial groups of the organization have held discussions over the past few weeks on this issue and, according to the initial surveys, the decision, by "clear majority", will be to not present or apply for the address or documents in that third assembly, convened by the Secretary General, Pablo Iglesias, one year in advance.

The foreseeable departure of the anti-capitalists, who represent the current more to the left of Podemos, would come after years of discrepancies, which in recent months have deepened following the entry into the coalition government with the PSOE; a decision that Urbán and Rodríguez reject because they are not willing to assume the contradictions that Podemos is assuming because of their approach to the socialists.

Rodriguez herself has warned on numerous occasions over the last months of the "danger" of abandoning the leftist opposition to the Executive by joining the Socialists too much, and "end up justifying cuts and antisocial policies."

Specifically, the anti-capitalists, who helped to found Podemos, have strongly criticized the position taken by the members of United Podemos in the Government at the solemn opening of the legislature, during which they applauded the King and subsequently praised his speech.

They have also questioned that Podemos has resigned in the coalition government program with the PSOE to repeal the labor reform approved by former socialist president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

Match model

In addition to the political differences, this sector, which in the last assembly of two years ago received the support of 13% of the militancy, maintains with the state leadership a dispute for years on the operation of the organization and the party model, for the lack of internal democracy, horizontality and autonomy of the territories.

Precisely the head of Communication of Podemos Andalucía, the anti-capitalist Pablo Pérez Ganfornina , denounced last Wednesday the "tutelage", the "interference" and the "lack of democracy" of the state leadership, after publishing that a candidacy was being promoted from Madrid Rodriguez alternative for the May regional assembly.

The Andalusian leader, who became one of the main referents of the purple party and the anti-capitalists since the founding assembly of Podemos in 2014, has been working for months on the construction of an own Andalusian political subject that followed the trail of the Adelante Andalucía coalition with which it concurred with IU in the regional past.

In fact, Rodríguez has already registered this brand, although without the support of IU Andalucía, in the Ministry of Interior last December, joining the territorial groups of the anticapitalists in Aragon, Castilla y León, Madrid and Murcia , which are already They registered as their own party before the autonomous and municipal elections of May 2019.

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