INTERVIEW
ANTONIO SERRANO Antonio Serrano featuring the number two on the list of Izquierda Unida in the last election by Malaga. After several disagreements with the United Left, decided to leave the game and create a new party. Today is municipal councilor in Malaga.
For those who do not know who is Antonio Serrano? Why did you decide to enter in politics and just chose IU?
I am a citizen of way in politics with the intention to contribute, as far as I am able to transparency to regeneration policy and practice of consistency. Years ago I was convinced that the natural area that was representing IU, the only political force that I had voted in my life and still has the sign "white label." Perhaps that is why the disappointment of finding within the greed of power, the marketing of political positions, giving up the utopian, lies and betrayal, the disappointment was very traumatic.
What led to the rupture with the United Left?
incompatibility with what I thought it was. I do not deny that collided head-on with extraordinary vanity and ego of Peter Moreno and his great personal and political incoherence, but this was anecdotal compared to the overall inconsistency of the organization. An organization that sectarian classifies the pure and impure, the "pro PSOE and the leaders and their adherents, but otherwise not miss an opportunity to be crutch of the PSOE (see the number of times in his speech introducing Valderas "the government will facilitate progress in Andalusia," or the like), not only lose credibility but ending, as has happened in Provincial, selling his soul to the devil for paying chairs where to place their leaders.
Regional Council gave in, in the last two legislatures, political spaces and galleries to the PSOE, in exchange for 21 counts of confidence with just two MPs. Proportion just twice which is the Mayor of points in the city of Malaga. In short, the objectives and the political ideology of IU is now completely distorted.
What you think of the new debate is emerging within his former party between Left United and the Communist Party?
What is happening at IU is not a debate, is a brand ownership and policy space by the PCE, are carrying out the practice of "cute", evicted from the nest to the rest of chickens and eggs in order to avoid having to share food. The PCE problem is that with their initials, in this day and age are aware that the political situation would remain in marginal, if not look at the process of PC in Europe. Their conflict in Spain is that they do not want competition and increasingly sharing space is smaller, which kicks the other chicks in the nest.
is a process of internal decay which has no brake. Some time ago some leaders of IU chose to be a political force of 5%, at least minimal competence to be militant, will guarantee entry into the institutions and the number of adequate jobs for the leaders and are more affluent than most.
This in Malaga and Andalucia is the ultimate, but does not seem to think that at some point may lose that topical 5%. You are about to happen, what will happen if you lose council?, No matter already agreed two Councils, but what if the PP obtained absolute majority in the Junta de Andalucía?. This is the difference between that IU, one of its last strongholds (one is Madrid and the other Andalucía), disappears in a year or survive four more to be phagocytosed by the PSOE.
What is the best memory of his time at IU? And the worst?
probably best memories are from my previous to the current stage, ie stage of my "ignorant" of what that was. But I have very good and beautiful experiences of these four-year term, connected with people in the street, people and experiences I shared with them. The people I have "saved" giving up on several occasions. This is the only thing that has been subjected to political life institutional, my commitment and my links with them.
What are the expectations of his new political party in coalition with the Andalusian?
Well, I must point out that there is no coalition with the Andalusian, we have established a process of political cooperation with the Andalucian left, while trying to recover the ecological and green component within IU had virtually disappeared. We do not look short-term goals, we know that breaking the media blockade and the "pressure" of the three institutionalized parties and owners of the institutions of usurpation of the people, is very complicated. Leave few spaces and frequent tripping.
Here it should be emphasized that these days I have obtained a favorable ruling, which recovered the voice and vote in all areas of municipal government. Lawsuit he filed against a city full agreement instigated by the Speaker of iu and the Mayor of the PP and the PSOE necessary complicity. That is against the three political groups.
The judge in his ruling makes clear that the only standard that he has seen has been the English Constitution and that this had been seriously breached by the "three" because they had violated my fundamental rights and representation rights of the people of Malaga, a city councilman elected delegates. Here's an example in the highest degree of how far they are willing institutional political parties for not allowing to reach the transition to regenerative proposals like ours.
In this line of creating a new party stands committed environmentalist. Why?
The green is green component in many of us forever. Many are active in looking for precisely this UI definition and can not find it, but you are because you absorb social fronts. Greens because we feel, but also because social equity, says Uralde Juantxo our friend, goes to reconstruct the environmental balance absolutely broken and in that dynamic, aggravating inequalities.
Whereupon, the man can not rebalance socially if those people who have been depleted by the first world through colonization dynamics shoplifter also are now killed by wars, desertification processes and large natural disasters. We will have to reconstruct the environmental balance in order to restore social equilibrium.
As our cities have turned their backs on nature, we are only aware of the drought when no water from the tap. And when it rains too much we complain because "if the wetlands are full to want more, or because it affects the tourism industry. Pollution in cities, compulsive consumerism, urban wild, all this creates a city uninhabitable, unhealthy, that the citizen anesthesia unconscious of the disaster that we are all contributing.
usually always listen to the political class doing a critique of the opposing parties, so I ask this time a self-criticism.
Our biggest mistake is sometimes measure ourselves with parameters of political party, we tend to react quickly and resume our position as a social platform. The body is necessary as an instrument of coordination and organization, but should not be an obstacle to the people's voice, when it is our essence, be the voice of the people.
Moreover we are in a permanent resistance to the mistakes of mainstream political parties, when the real value is not no mistakes, but knowing correct time and correct. In the absence of mechanisms to facilitate citizen involvement in real institutional life, we too obsessed with having political representation in the institutions, when we should work harder to force the creation of these mechanisms.
is clear that our city has experienced tremendous growth in recent years, but there are many areas where we have taken a step backwards. What has been done well? What remains to be done?
Managing Francisco de la Torre and the PP as a whole has been marked by a severe slowdown. It is true that no major surprises in the day to day the effect was twofold, lulled people and maintained a certain balance supported by a gray routine. However, investments by the Administrations and the daily management of resources given to this city has experienced a significant change in the last decade. While increases in resources, increase the facilities and improve services.
The problem is that a city maintaining budget levels between eight and billions of euros in recent years should be required, management and performance levels higher than borrowers in the last twelve years. We have gone back in comfort and environmental quality, the city has grown in an uncoordinated manner with the services and facilities and making it less habitable. The city's green areas are less maintained in the past four years and we remain well below the European ratio of m2 per capita (+15 m2 4.5m2 Málaga).
The combined cycle power plant, expansion of the landfill in Los Ruices, or maintenance of the cement of the spider and the general situation of abandonment of a large number of lots in the city, offers a dirty, but Malaga essentially make unhealthy. The cleaning service is the common denominator in the opinion of citizens, their opinion is dire, we are a very dirty city. The sea, the weather, the holidays (much enhanced by the government team of City Hall), along with tourism, relieve much of the feelings about what we say and deter them from a different reality.
What makes your game different from other political parties? What gives the city of Malaga to give you confidence?
Look at the last City Council, requested the creation of a public table with specialists from the university, residents of Malaga and expert staff will randomly audit the City procurement process. I was rejected by the three political groups, did not share the fact that people are part of a control desk. This is the essential difference, we believe that the people have to intervene directly in public life and that we, the parties must be facilitating it.
also want to be essentially consistent, I return to the last plenary, I presented a motion requesting the termination of their Town Planning delegation for having committed a serious objective illegality, twenty representatives of groups came to speak in favor of Councilman, PSOE was wondering if you vote against the motion (ultimately did not), the spokesman was absent iu full. Thus it is very difficult to maintain coherent discourse.
Nationally, almost five million unemployed, corruption scandals in the major political parties ... Why no clear answers from the parties political corruption?
Wherever one party has government position, not to lose, or lose the chance to repeat in the following municipal elections, the problem is that parties tend to value the corruptions as a setback, rather than as an opportunity to regeneration and ethical school policies and set an example to citizens. Another factor is that the parties have so much to hide where they can not govern everything to be exposed to the light, then applied to minimize the facts, even justify, if not to hide them.
This is far from the transparency we preach all, I think that citizens should be much more demanding and strict with the political class and parties. The way is to engage in public life and, ultimately, use the white vote as a critical tool, which involves active participation in the electoral process and not resort to abstention.
In the last municipal elections the abstention rate in Malaga touched 50%. What do you think that abstention should Malaga society? What have they done wrong political party?
Al disappointment, the surfeit of everything that has to do with politics. The parties do it all effort to distance the city, witness intrusive, organic life and institutional life. The funny thing is that all incorporate into our speeches, otherwise, participation, proximity, internal and institutional democracy and a long list of hypocrisy. This tired people.
I always say that people are slow to digest and decipher situations, but always does and it categorically. Politicians usually follow suit to parties, we are usually a scale reproduction of the parties, similar interests, added to the personal ego and vanity of each, but the fear of losing his chair. Not everyone moves these parameters, but it is too frequent, it also realizes the city.
One of the groups with high abstention is the youth. Why this is occurring away from the political class from the young?
Well, young people have always been the link uncontrolled society, move freely, think independently when not on the contrary of what is handed down, we've all been young and the common element in all generations could say which is the default. This one we showed in the past as now, looking for avenues of expression, then were more political channels (we were at the beginning of a democracy and a dictatorship we left), were times of great demonstrations of a profound social revolution in which young people were often the lead or catalysts for change.
Today
their needs and their means of expression are different, there is little political culture among the youth and the overturn concerns in social networks, volunteer network. Also in this case the parties, particularly the left, we left the proselytizing of our ideas, institutes, universities, neighborhoods and workplaces, this is objectively true.
recently harshly criticized the government's involvement in the war in Libya. Where do you position? How could they have acted in Libya? Was favorable to some kind of intervention or prone to inhibition of the English government?
I do not think things are measured in such an exhaustive. I regret any war position, whatever, and by definition I am opposed to violence and hence to the wars, but do an analysis, I think selfishly few people do. Often governments, especially Western, intervene militarily in other countries, assessing interests strategic and energy rather than humanitarian.
in the world today there are dozens of war situations in various countries, however, do not talk about them, it is those in which you want to justify intervention, including not having a Council resolution UN Security as in the case of the Balkans. Why? oil, location, etc..
"We have tolerated" and feeding regimes like Gaddafi, for decades in South America, Africa and Asia primarily and only act when our interests first world in danger, when our Energy shares or their prices are "inconvenient." This is the part I regret, yesterday sold arms to Qaddafi, today they killed dissidents. Yesterday Saddam Hussein was killing Kurds with chemical weapons from the U.S., but only invaded Iraq when Saddam took too prominent in the oil markets.
This part worries me, however what would have responded immediately after the coup of 36 if someone had asked us if we wanted an international military intervention would have prevented hundreds of thousands dead, forty years of dictatorship and executions and the consequent social and economic stagnation? The answers are difficult, especially when these situations are the result of historical processes of colonization and Western predatory dictatorships fed processes involved.
all tend to have a political reference that has marked us, what is yours and why?
mythicize I do not like any politician, I'm very picky as I believe with all myself. I scored a lot of Antonio Romero, as well as years later I was disappointed. In the same vein I find Gaspar Llamazares, although in this case is not so great disappointment. I think, moreover, that the great politicians are to evaluate them in terms of historical time and lived with great perspective in this sense almost all values \u200b\u200bwould have made outstanding and all questionable decisions. What I value most in the cases I cited was, besides his strong communication skills, policy coherence, and it was the betrayal of the latter that finally ended disappoint, more noticeable in the case of Romero.
several names and I tell you briefly tell me your opinion
• Francisco de la Torre Ability to work on any other virtue or defect, that makes up any shortcomings. And his excellent memory helps a lot to connect to any situation.
• Pedro Moreno Brenes In this case, rather than others, I am past mediated by the proximity and the experience. I think he deceives himself and probably consistently deceives others, do not think it really left a man, is wildly inconsistent with what he preaches and in any case, deadly sectarian. As Francisco de la Torre, his capacity for work dresses, but further than that, its true essence.
• Mariano Rajoy very mediocre, not the level of what is expected of a national leader.
• María Gámez Their values \u200b\u200bare the courage and youth, but I think she is a prisoner of its institutional past and his own party.
• Zapatero The greatest loss of historic opportunity, from a leftist perspective.
• Ratzinger The darker and ancient church.
• Aznar His personality ranges from ETA's rating as "national liberation movement of the Basque Country, to Tramontana nomination of the same territory as Basque. Dangerously contradictory.
Obama
• "The Great White Hope," seems out of steam and be disappointing expectations, hard times and difficult country you live.
For you, what is and what is it utopia?
is the meaning of life, without it mankind would have advanced nothing. The excessive pragmatism (the need) often slows our ability to dream and go beyond.
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