The last failure of the Andalusian left: This is how the hostile takeover bid that destroyed Adelante Andalucía was launched

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The expulsion of Teresa Rodríguez's deputies from her own parliamentary group;

the crossing of accusations between former colleagues of Podemos;

the battle for control of the funds (1.7 million euros) from the Parliament ... The breakdown of Adelante Andalucía has acquired grotesque overtones in recent days and condemns to irrelevance a project created by Rodríguez and Antonio themselves Maíllo (IU) as an alternative on the left to the PSOE of Susana Díaz, then hegemonic in Andalusia.

Because that was precisely one of the consensuses instituted in that confluence of parties: their determination not to become

of the Andalusian PSOE.

For Rodríguez and Maíllo,

was the «bureaucratized version of the PSOE of corruption» and its leaders «the test tube children of Andalusian socialism», that generation that grew up in the party headquarters lacks the culture of workers' struggle and nor has he inherited the "ideological heritage" of his predecessors.

The coalition was born on the eve of the autonomous elections of December 2018 with the aim of giving a

(highly unlikely even then) on the left.

But what its promoters did not expect is that Susana Díaz would allow herself to be snatched the keys to the Palacio de San Telmo by a very different confluence, the one that constituted the PP and Cs with the parliamentary support of Vox.

With the change of government, the anti-

discourse

not only became old, but also began to be a serious obstacle to the left facing the new institutional power of

.

There began the distancing of IU, which was already definitive after the resignation of Antonio Maíllo, and the

of Teresa Rodríguez who, given the loss of trust between the coalition partners, undertook an operation that, in business terms, was It seems a lot like what is known as a

: the maneuver to take control of an organization by means of expanding, against the will of the partners, the weight of the shares in the society that it is intended to monopolize.

For this, Teresa Rodríguez breaks ties with Podemos, turns

into a new party

(until then it was only a movement within Podemos) and maneuvers to bring that new party, like a

, into Adelante Andalucía, which it grants greater weight in the organization and relegates IU or Podemos to a testimonial role.

Until last week, the leadership of Izquierda Unida had more or less assisted on the defensive in all this concatenation of events, but finally it has gone on the attack with a brutal blow (due to its consequences and the unexpected) to Teresa Rodríguez and has managed to deactivate , at least for the moment, the road map with which the Cadiz leader had guaranteed to keep the helm and the coalition's speech immobile.

The very summarized chronology of Adelante Andalucía's trajectory is as follows:

OCTOBER 2018

Adelante Andalucía is registered as a coalition of parties formed by Podemos, Izquierda Unida, Primavera Andaluza and Izquierda Andalucista.

Equo also joined initially but withdrew from the project after the first disagreements.

DECEMBER 2018

Adelante Andalucía obtained 17 deputies (11 from Podemos and 6 from IU) in the 2D elections.

The joint candidacy not only fails to expand its electoral base but also loses three deputies with respect to what IU and Podemos obtained separately in the 2015 elections. The failure at the polls forces a process of internal self-criticism but, given that there are a whole horizon of electoral calls ahead, some decisions are postponed.

JUNE 2019

Antonio Maíllo resigns, leaving politics and returning to his position as a Latin teacher in Aracena.

Toni Valero takes over as head of the coalition, who no longer has the same personal harmony with Teresa Rodríguez, nor does he share strategies or objectives with her.

The tandem is broken and the disagreements begin, fueled by the friction that arose in the past electoral campaigns.

DECEMBER 2019

Pablo Iglesias and Pedro Sánchez agree to a coalition government.

Teresa Rodríguez makes public her disagreement that Podemos form a government with the PSOE, but the national leadership calls an internal referendum and the Andalusian militancy approves the pact by majority.

Teresa Rodríguez registers Adelante Andalucía in the party register.

Their IU partners consent but will later explain that they have been deceived because the record shows an imbalance (three representatives of Anticapitalistas versus one of IU) between the founding partners of the new organization.

FEBRUARY 2020

Teresa Rodríguez and Pablo Iglesias announce their "amicable" divorce.

Rodríguez agrees not to run for re-election as the coordinator of Podemos in Andalusia but, although he does not rule out running in future elections with another party, he does not make it clear how or when he will leave the militancy.

In fact, she remains Secretary General in Andalusia until the change takes place.

In parallel, Anticapitalistas, the current to which Teresa Rodríguez belongs, definitely abandons Podemos.

MAY 2020

Teresa Rodríguez decides to incorporate Anticapitalistas into the Adelante Andalucía coalition on equal terms with the founding partners.

The digital newspaper

reports that Rodríguez takes advantage of the fact that she is still secretary general of Podemos Andalucía to approve, together with her partners from Primavera Andaluza and Izquierda Andalucista (who have always acted following the discipline set by Teresa Rodríguez), the entry of Anticapitalistas in the formation.

In that same newspaper, IU leaders show their amazement at the move, since a new partner has been admitted without a meeting or agenda or vote.

By then, Adelante Andalucía does not even have an organizational structure or statutes, so Teresa Rodríguez manages the organization at a convenience.

"They have stolen our party," they later affirmed in IU, that they see Anticapitalistas as the Trojan horse that, from within, will allow Teresa Rodríguez to dispense with Podemos and IU in decision-making.

In the future, when he no longer holds the reins of Podemos, he will continue to have a majority since there will be three partners (Anticapitalistas plus the two Andalusian parties) compared to two (IU and Podemos).

JUNE 2020

Martina Velarde takes office as general coordinator of Podemos Andalucía.

He reestablishes relations with Izquierda Unida and intends to rebuild the organization, but at that time it lacks structure (Anticapitalistas was almost everything in Podemos Andalusia) and also representation in Parliament, since all Podemos deputies remain loyal to Teresa Rodríguez, although not all of them are from Anticapitalistas.

Teresa Rodríguez registers the Andalusian Anticapitalists party after finally releasing the leadership of Podemos.

AUGUST 2020

Teresa Rodríguez leaves IU without proxies in the checking account of the Caja de Ingenieros where the funds are received to finance the operating expenses of the parliamentary group.

Later, in September, he gave the order to Parliament for that money to be entered into another account to which the IU deputies did not have access either.

The newspaper

cites sources close to Teresa Rodríguez who accuse IU of having taken money from the common accounts held by both groups in the Huelva and Malaga councils without her permission.

In addition, also in August, IU accuses Anticapitalistas of hoarding the coalition's social networks, whose profiles are no longer accessible to deputies and advisers.

OCTOBER 2020

IU presents a letter to the Parliament Board indicating Teresa Rodríguez and seven other related deputies as defectors.

The Table accepts it and resolves the transfer of those affected to the group of not attached to the Autonomous Chamber.

IU recognizes that it will demand that Parliament allow it to maintain the full allocation of the parliamentary group despite the fact that it has lost eight deputies.

In addition, he dismisses

(from the group related to Teresa Rodríguez) as a member of the Board of Parliament and names

in her place

.

IU and Podemos recover the reins of the parliamentary group and study whether to also sue for the electoral brand.

Teresa Rodríguez files an appeal against the decision of the Board and announces that she will take the case before the Constitutional Court if Parliament does not back down.

The non-attached group, where there is already a former Vox deputy, does not have the right to a budget allocation for its operation or to participate in many parliamentary initiatives (for example, questions to the president).

Rodríguez accuses the PSOE, IU and Podemos of taking her out of the way to

in the future.

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