The nonetheless autonomous deputy for Cádiz Teresa Rodríguez has introduced this Monday what she was already advancing on the finish of November. She relinquishes her seat within the Andalusian Parliament, the place she has been for nearly eight years.
She agreed for the primary time after the elections of March 2015. Now, she has confirmed that she’s going to return to her place as a secondary college trainer in a public institute in Puerto Real (Cádiz), though she’s going to preserve her place as spokesperson for Adelante Andalucía, in whose course to be proceed.
Teresa Rodríguez has made this announcement via a video broadcast on social networks. Sources from Adelante Andalucía have specified to Europa Press that the resignation of the seat might be efficient after the final plenary session of the present session, set this week to host the ultimate debate on the Board’s Budget undertaking for 2023.
Until now spokesperson for the Grupo Mixto-Adelante Andalucía in Parliament takes this step barely a month after one other referent of this formation, the mayor of Cádiz, José María González ‘Kichi’, took an analogous one by indicating that he was not going to current as a candidate for re-election as head of the Cádiz City Council within the municipal elections.
We mentioned it many occasions. Politics is just not a career however a brief dedication of an individual to her group. I preserve my phrase. Coherence is the best way now we have to indicate that we really defend the causes that we put in our mouths #EnAdelanteCumplimos pic.twitter.com/rca0pE61QS
— Teresa Rodríguez – Adelante Andalucía ۞ (@TeresaRodr_) December 19, 2022
In the aforementioned video, pictures are projected with totally different moments of her profession in Andalusian politics, through which she defended that she would return to her submit as a secondary college trainer, that “politics is just not a career”, and that after two legislatures “it’s a must to return to work”, thus betting on the “time period limitation”.
“We mentioned that we did not wish to seem like them or in our walks; we proposed many occasions to abolish privileges and so they at all times voted towards us, so we gave up official vehicles and a better wage than we had earlier than coming into politics, to indicate that we had been can do politics with out altering neighborhoods”, he stresses.
“A bubble of financial and symbolic privileges”
The chief of Adelante thus claims that in her formation “we shouldn’t have concepts totally different from these of the system, however that we inhabit our actions day by day with a unique morality, as a result of we wish to change every little thing”, and towards this she warns that “the establishments of the State are a bubble of financial and symbolic privileges”.
“Step on a carpet is an act that essentially modifications you,” provides Teresa Rodríguez, who instantly warns that “abruptly you’re now not anybody’s associate or neighbor, however your honor; they speak to you about you and so they serve you water earlier than you ask for it; abruptly the each day pains of your individuals are a nook in a pocket book, a chore that piles up; abruptly you end up rehearsing a tune for the tribune like somebody rehearsing an orgasm, abruptly it provides you braveness to not they acknowledge your sacrifice, that they are saying, ‘all the identical’, and also you nearly really feel extra supportive of energy than together with your countryman, and you’re one step away from becoming a member of the union of the political class”.
After that, she asserts that “many individuals earlier than made a lot larger sacrifices, they gave up their freedom and life to defend the straightforward concept that collective happiness is above the greed of some”, and he or she wonders “who’re we to , within the identify of those self same values, dedicate ourselves to dwelling comfortably sitting on a bench”.
“I don’t depart politics”
Along these traces, Teresa Rodríguez proclaims that she is leaving her seat in Parliament “proud to have opened a brand new political house through which Andalusia raises its voice for itself, with its personal accent, satisfied that when the favored lessons, when the Andalusian folks we conquered the victories that actually mattered, the historic processes of change had been at all times superbly nameless”.
“All that issues is activism and militancy,” says Teresa Rodríguez, who invitations those that supported Adelante Andalucía within the final elections “to prepare yourselves, the place you see match.” “I ask you to be one thing greater than a person who votes and faces his each day private fatigue alone, as a result of we solely save ourselves collectively,” the Adelante chief additionally launches.
In this regard, Rodríguez defends that “leaderships play a job”, and that’s the reason “I’ll proceed to be there”, in order that “I’m not leaving politics, as a result of politics is just not Parliament”, and she’s going to proceed to be the spokesperson for Adelante.
“You will proceed to see me within the media, on the networks, within the assemblies, however I might be there with the sensation of getting stored my phrase, for having gathered just one sort of heritage, consistency, the concept we will like roughly, however we will be trusted after we decide to him.”
“This is how we, the folks of Adelante Andalucía, are, as a result of there’s a substitute, and what a substitute,” continues Teresa Rodríguez, whose seat will stay within the fingers of José Ignacio García, who contested the June 19 elections as quantity two on the record for Cádiz and who was already a parliamentarian for Adelante within the earlier legislature.
The video ends saying that he’s returning to show, however “for every little thing that I can proceed to contribute from right here, at all times depend on me”, he says goodbye with a picture recorded in entrance of the façade of an academic heart to which he’s heading to represent that return to his Language lessons.
His trajectory from Podemos
After her election as a member of the European Parliament within the European elections of May 2014, Teresa Rodríguez participated within the elections to the Andalusian Parliament in March 2015, main the candidacy of Podemos for the primary time, which obtained 15 seats within the autonomous Chamber at the moment with the poll field. , together with one for her.
Three and a half years later, she revalidated her standing as an autonomous deputy after operating within the Andalusian elections on December 2, 2018 as a candidate for the presidency of the Junta, main the lists of the Adelante Andalucía coalition, which in that appointment with the polls introduced collectively Podemos and IU along with Andalusian teams.
In November 2020, Teresa Rodríguez was expelled from the Adelante Andalucía parliamentary group together with eight different deputies associated to her on the request of Podemos and IU, after, just a few months earlier, in February, she had introduced her separation from Podemos after reaching an settlement with the then secretary normal of the purple celebration, Pablo Iglesias, with whom he maintained “political variations of a strategic nature”, on points such because the formation of the coalition that the PSOE and Unidas Podemos agreed for the Government of Spain.
Teresa Rodríguez within the Andalusian ParliamentMaría José López/Europa Press
The parliamentarians expelled from the Adelante group -which later modified its identify to Unidas Podemos for Andalucía- offered an attraction for amparo earlier than the Constitutional Court that’s nonetheless pending, and spent the remainder of the legislature as non-attached deputies within the Andalusian Parliament.
Subsequently, Teresa Rodríguez stood for the elections on June 19 once more as a candidate for the presidency of the Junta from the ranks of Adelante Andalucía, a model that on this event now not introduced collectively Podemos and IU, and with which she obtained two seats, the one she herself obtained for the province of Cádiz and the one which went to Maribel Mora because the primary candidate for Seville.