'No more' dramas on the left

The possibility could be expected that, if the left did not even agree to fire shots, they were not going to do so to attend elections united in Albacete. It was the division's hangover day. A few hours before, Frente Amplio and Podemos honored that unfortunate Cainite drive so characteristic of the progressive space and were unable to reach any kind of agreement to avoid the dispersion of the vote on November 29. The reaction is also characteristic: it is always the other who is to blame.

Hundreds of people waited this Saturday in the auditorium of the Parque Lineal del Manzanares, in Madrid, for the appearance of the great leaders of Frente Amplio, who presented herself in society as a nineteenth-century aristocratic teenager. The weather forecast pointed to a downpour of a thousand reproaches and divisions, but a murderous sun ended up heating the atmosphere and the necks of the public, who opened their umbrellas to cancel out lipothymias. Among the attendees, LGTBI, Palestinian, Frente Amplio flags and even an independence flag from Aragon, with the red star in the center, in honor of Jorge Pueyo, leader of the Chunta, present there. A dog with a Rolling Stones badge took refuge under the shade provided by the table in the press area and stirred with each extra decibel of those present or the applause of the hundreds of people who dressed in the auditorium.

Before the Frente Amplio leaders made their appearance, music was playing halfway between a golden hour beach bar and a night of partying at the Ochoymedio. And Old Man. And Mocatriz. This is also part of the idiosyncrasy of the left: no campaign event without Ojete Calor being heard. A group of politicians appeared first, with Antonio Maíllo, Mónica García or Tesh Sidi at the head, to the rhythm of Los niños del barrio, by Natos y Waor and Recycled J, with a martial march. Then Ernest Urtasun, Pablo Bustinduy, Verónica Martínez, Toni Valero, Emilio Delgado and Ada Colau did it, turning around the auditorium as if they had just cut off two ears, a pity for the analogy, which may not be the most accurate in this square.

The first to speak was Pablo Bustinduy, who did not resign himself to the polls' forecasts. "They want us demoralized and they are going to have the opposite," he said, before resorting to the wild card of the civil war story: "But how are we going to surrender on the banks of the Manzanares, where the best of our country laid the body to stop the fascists who filled this city with blood from Cerro Garabitas, where hundreds of thousands of working-class families headed with cardboard suitcases towards a better life, leaving behind that city of a million corpses?"

Throughout the entire event, the anti-fascist proclamations that always run the risk of trivializing the left were constant: the "They will not pass" of 1936 was shouted by the people of Madrid who were sleeping among rubble and the harassment of bombs, and the "They will not pass" of 2026, in reference to PP and Vox, was shouted by the people of Madrid who after a campaign event are going to have a hard time.

Emilio Delgado, the most acclaimed along with Ada Colau, gave the headline of the day. "No more dramas. The dramas are over. We are not here to analyze who did what and why, we are here to win the future," he said in reference to the labyrinth into which the left has immersed itself in recent days with conversations that, in his words, "bore the goats." Something similar, continuing with this warmongering framework, must have been said by an anarchist to another POUM member 90 years ago.

Urtasun, who referred to Bustinduy as "Pablo, brother", regretted that this Monday the right and the extreme right brought Milei to Spain. Boos in the auditorium against the Argentine president. "They bring us [PP and Vox] to Milei because they come with the chainsaw program," he stated. Toni Valero, from IU, warmed up the atmosphere with one of the best speeches of the day while Colau constantly consulted his papers and Emilio Delgado stretched his back and moved his neck as if instead of giving a speech he was preparing to knock out. in the first round against a boxer.

The event was closed by the former mayor of Barcelona, ​​Frente Amplio's candidate for the elections, warning that her speech was long and asking people not to applaud every sentence. "For better and for worse, I am famous for being very clear." And so much. "If someone doesn't want to sit at the table, you can't force them," he said after Podemos. "In the next elections we are going to defeat fascism. We are going to do it with joy and defending hope," he later assured.

And he ended an intervention through the house, remembering ancient times when he first avoided an eviction in Tarragona and paying tribute to one of his great references, Federica Montseny, Minister of the Republic. She, she said, an unredeemed anarchist, had to "swallow her contradictions" by accessing a Government in which she did not believe because of the self-organizing spirit of the system she defended.