The spokesperson for Adelante Andalucía, José Ignacio García, has highlighted this Friday the "new faces" with which his organization will compete in the general elections on the upcoming November 29 in the eight Andalusian provinces. He does so, as he has emphasized, at a time when "what we are seeing in recent days causes, in an immense majority of the population, of the left-wing people, a certain weariness" and "a certain fed-upness."
"And that can only be cured with new faces," the leader emphasized at a press conference held in Cádiz, where he introduced the eight heads of list of Adelante to Congress for the appointment on November 29, implicitly referring to the fracture that has become evident among the formations situated to the left of the PSOE when trying to close joint candidacies.
The top positions on the lists of Adelante to Congress will be occupied by the lawyer specialized in human rights Luis de los Santos for Seville, the engineer from the metal sector María Sánchez for Cádiz, the interim professor of Geography and History Tania Ferre for Almería, the tour guide Carmen Sánchez for Córdoba, the home care worker Carmen Martín for Huelva, the student and social media communicator María Alcantud for Granada, the nursing assistant Silvia Cano for Jaén, and the biology teacher Ana Jiménez for Málaga.
At the beginning of his appearance, José Ignacio García highlighted that the candidates, with whom Adelante plans to organize "a public event" in the coming days, could not be present because "they are working" as this Friday is "a working day, and they are each working in their profession."
In his opinion, this fact marks a difference between Adelante and "other political parties," and with the presentation of these candidacies they intend to convey that they are already "prepared" and "in motion" for these elections, with "a program that is being developed" and with their assemblies and militants touring "all the towns and neighborhoods of Andalucía."
The "fundamental objective" that Adelante Andalucía sets for these elections is "to put a stop to the right and the far right," García has reiterated, who has defended that "Adelante Andalucía is the best way" to achieve it. In this sense, he has recalled the result obtained in the last Andalusian regional elections on May 17, when the formation quadrupled its seats in the Andalusian Parliament "without taking a single seat from Podemos-Izquierda Unida."
In that line, he has maintained that Adelante Andalucía "expands the space of the left" and allows "people who are in disaffection, in despair, in weariness, a bit fed up with the usual left, to see that there is hope, that there is an alternative" embodied, in his opinion, by this organization as an exponent of "a new left" and "different."
García has described the heads of the list of Adelante —seven women and one man— as representatives of the Andalusian working class, a left "fresh and rooted in the territory" and with a "different and independent" project.
"They are people with professional backgrounds, fighters in social movements, each an expert in their sector. They are people who come to freshen up the left, who come to shake up the political landscape, to defend Andalucía with nails and teeth in the Congress of Deputies, to defend the working class, to stop the rights and to represent a different, new left," the spokesperson has proclaimed.
The leader has insisted that politics needs "new people, who come from their jobs and who, in addition, are like the Andalusian people, normal and ordinary people," and that, in contrast to what "we are seeing in recent days," which "provokes a certain weariness," it is essential to have "a new left, that excites, different, because what exists is a mess, and new people are needed."