Sánchez Gordillo studied Teaching and practiced his occupation in Marinaleda, a occupation that he ended up placing apart as he centered on politicsHe leaves after having received eleven consecutive elections, virtually all of them by a majority and with none main rivalry till the final electionsHis identify, together with days of protest and shock actions, have monopolized on multiple event, the covers of the media all through the nation
Marinaleda and its mayor, Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, have virtually at all times written on shut traces. He was born in Aguadulce, Seville, 74 years in the past. He got here to energy within the transition and he has been right here till this Thursday he introduced that he won’t stand within the elections. 44 years have left many headlines for a person who has marked the historical past of a city with simply over 2,600 inhabitants. Always linked to the Andalusian nationalist motion and the employees’ and commerce union wrestle, Sánchez Gordillo took benefit of his arrival as mayor to launch his specific communist revolution. His work didn’t cease there, he additionally made it appropriate with that of deputy for the United Left (IU) within the Andalusian Parliament from 1994 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2014.
Before all this, he studied Teaching and labored as a trainer in Marinaleda, a occupation that he ended up placing apart when he centered on politics. Since his arrival, the primary municipal elections after the Franco regime, he promoted numerous measures linked to his political thought, reminiscent of the development of housing for social lease and at an insignificant value. He was additionally the architect of the creation of a cooperative wherein farm employees take part, thus avoiding the existence of landowners. And he launched some assemblies wherein the neighbors could make their voices heard on points associated to the city.
In the 2008 elections he was elected deputy of the Andalusian Parliament for IULV-CA, representing the province of Seville. Likewise, he’s the pinnacle of the Unitary Candidacy of Workers (CUT), a political social gathering that has been a member of the IU since its basis and till 2015. He can be a member of the SAT National Committee and till the departure of the CUT from IU he was a member of the Political Council Federal of IU, in addition to Secretary of Food Sovereignty of the leftist coalition.
Known protests throughout the nation
In December 2011, the I SAT Congress elected him a member of its National Committee. In February 2012, the IU appointed him head of the record for the province of Seville for the Andalusian elections on March 25, 2012. In these elections, his social gathering rose to change into the third political power, decisive in deciding a left-wing authorities with the PSOE . In this context, Sánchez Gordillo was against forming a joint authorities with the PSOE, threatening the departure of the CUT from IU.
Beyond native politics, Sánchez Gordillo has additionally been concerned in some days of protest and shock actions which have monopolized the entrance pages of the media all through the nation. Especially well-known have been the closure of entry to Expo 92 in Seville, or the blockade of the AVE tracks in Córdoba. Or when he led the assault, along with a whole lot of unionists, on a number of supermarkets in 2012, to ship meals to households in want.
Sánchez Gordillo with Cañamero within the Background on the SAT.Europa Press Workers’ March.
A stroke and final elections received by little
He leaves after having received eleven consecutive elections, virtually all of them by an amazing majority and with none main rivalry till the final elections. If it appeared that the information might be given, that of his withdrawal, it was due to his state of well being. Before the final municipal elections, Sánchez Gordillo suffered a stroke that compelled him to play a secondary function and provides the duty of managing the city to councilor Sergio Reyes.
In reality, the present mayor has already indicated that within the subsequent elections he would hand over the baton to his proper hand. And, even when he ran, issues appeared to have modified: in 2019 he was on the verge of dropping the mayoralty after a left-wing opposition coalition, Avanza Marinaleda, was organized with the goal of unseating him. There have been solely forty votes distinction. He additionally had a part of the city protesting in 2021 after the dismissal of an worker that he thought-about his unfair scenario. Who is aware of if together with his closing departure, the revolutionary flame within the city will exit without end.