The left of the South of Madrid unites against the inequality gap: "The situation here is a disaster"

They are the South.

And they wouldn't want to be... They wouldn't want to be in those statistics that are damning.

, they denounce;

In the South, workers are concentrated in the most precarious and worst paid professional categories, from 5 to 10, with a majority in 8 (first and second officers), while in the North 1 (engineers, graduates and senior management personnel);

In the seven municipalities in the South, where one in six Madrilenians live, the per

is around

and exactly half that in the North.

In the autonomous community with the highest GDP in Spain, two worlds half an hour away by car.

The South exists, but, until now, it has never converged into a political program.

, neighbors to each other, but the seven, each one with their efforts and their particular struggles.

Under the impulse of the Workers'

and the

, next Saturday they will all conspire as

, with the councilors signing for a common front, together with neighborhood, social and political organizations of the left (

and the local versions in which they are mixed).

«For the first time, the seven mayors, who represent

, are going to be together in a mobilization process, with demands that are not a list for each municipality, but are global for the South, and with the support behind the movements that we have been working on here for a long time”, summarizes the milestone

and promoter of the project, built for more than a year together with his colleagues from UGT.

The idea arose before the summer of

, it accelerated a year ago and took shape in April, with a first institutional accession agreement.

It could have been an act before the summer and then it was a call for last Saturday, September 24, which was postponed to completely balance the agendas.

"We thought it was better to go slowly and have everyone there."

And everyone will go to Fuenlabrada next Saturday.

A concrete mobilization will emerge from that meeting:

is one of the options, right at the beginning of a politically crucial course.

Cordero clarifies: "We have neither the intention nor the ability to condition whether the left is going to be more together or more separate in the May elections."

In fact, despite the uniformity in the acronym of government - in all those cities the PSOE leads -, in some it commands in union with the rest of the left, or with some of them or fighting fiercely with each other.

«There are months to come in which there will surely be many tensions on the left.

They will decide if they go together, but initiatives like this can serve to mobilize.

In this sense,

.

A mobilized society will go to the polls more.

We want the left to win, but which left does not matter to us.

It was not easy to convince everyone.

"There is a lot of local conflict," admits Cordero.

The unions came together and now they want to finish off, so that «

South, because it is not enough just to reinforce the Welfare State, there must be specific solutions».

There is already a draft with six axes, with day-to-day details: «The crowds in the

, which always breaks down;

maintaining schedules in

from 18 to 21 hours;

landfills

;

a plan against

, which reaches 25% in the South;

that the investment plan, instead of being by competitive concurrence, prioritizes the municipalities with more recipients of minimum insertion income;

combat the digital divide, which has

without reaching half of the Community of Madrid, or training for the unemployed.

Because, in the South, 70% of the unemployed have ESO as their maximum degree.

In Parla, it is almost 80%.

Whichever way you look at it, the situation here is a mess."

The list of requests is six pages long, but they are summed up in "talking about the territorial gap and getting the Community of Madrid to listen to the South."

I help?

, who, precisely, has focused her strategy on that South today

.

Nor do they intend to found "a new identity", since

or

, both in the capital, are carbon copies, for example, of

, with its 194,514 inhabitants, the second most populous of this group of seven, after

(210,309).

Between the two,

(197,562) and above it is only Madrid, with its more than three million.

This Southern Alliance looks towards the capital, after noting "the limitation of local mobilizations."

They want, they say, "to take the leap";

they intend to consolidate this space beyond the May elections and that it not be exhausted in that first mobilization that will be announced this Saturday.

“When we started, we always told ourselves that it was probably not going to come out.

In the end, we got ourselves into a good mess.

This has many possibilities… and many risks.”

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