“In the street we are more”: 500 militants of Commons call for the new government to focus on the territories and criticize the current leadership of the party

“In the street we are more”, is a manifesto that was the result of the articulation and reflection of 500 militants of Commons dissatisfied with the way in which the current leadership of the party has proceeded with the refoundation announced, and the way in which the dialogue with the territories and regions has been carried out to shape the future Government.
These 500 militants are led by founding figures of Comunes such as the former vice president of the party, Bárbara Castillo, the national head of the Powerful Feminist Front, María Jesús Aguilar, the lawyer who accused in 2018 the National Prosecutor Jorge Abott, Inti Salamanca; together with the mayor of Macul, Gonzalo Montoya and the Regional Governor of Tarapacá, José Miguel Carvajal, expressed their new trend by criticizing the current leadership of Comunes and calling for Gabriel Boric to “recognize the contribution and strength of the regions and territories” in the formation of the incoming Government.
“We need a project that is up to these challenges and that never loses democratic radicalism. We were born uncomfortable with the elites, it is not time to accommodate their interests” points out in its first paragraphs the document “In the street we are more”, emphasizing that: “The task of building an organization that builds from below and disputes those from above, requires a popular militancy with territorial roots so that we never lose our sense of origin and our horizon of social justice does not find deviations along the way.”
In turn, the manifesto of this tendency of Commons expresses that it is urgent “to assume with responsibility the role that this new cycle demands of us, it requires that we do not repeat failed formulas” and “that it is time to put the higher good of the people above any personal interest, recognize the errors to improve and strengthen within our party the popular will that we have sought to reflect since we gave rise to Commons”.
Finally, reference is made to the process of integration of Commons in the government of Gabriel Boric, they sentence categorically: “we can not pretend that those who represent us in the future Government arrive there by lists that run in the press and not by collective decisions: when a comrade or comrade enters the institutionality, we all do it, not just his academic background or his individual interest.”
On the other hand, the governor of Tarapacá, José Miguel Carvajal, believes that in this process “we must guarantee that every citizen who inhabits our country, is part of this new Chile, this country, fair, inclusive, sustainable and participatory, which we yearn for in the new constitution, in the process of decentralization and in the government of our president Gabriel Boric.” He emphasizes that to achieve this “the effective path is through the territories, regional power, local power, that is the source of power, which will move the new Chile.”
Regarding the emergence of this trend within the Commons, the mayor of Macul, Gonzalo Montoya, affirms that “we assume the responsibility together with more than 500 militants to raise this popular, territorial and citizen tendency that allows us to contribute to democratize the decision-making spaces of the party, because we believe that it is important to generate democratic debates, ideological debates to propose public policies in the territories and the government of Gabriel Boric”.
“We call on the militancy of Comunes to be protagonists of the government of Gabriel Boric,” explained the mayor of Macul and former vice president of Comunes, who finally added that “we are going to need a collaborative work between our communities for the advances that our government will promote, for which we are completely available.”

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