Teresa Rodríguez announces the resignation of her seat in Parliament but will continue in the direction of Adelante as spokesperson

SEVILLA, 19 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The still autonomous deputy for Cádiz Teresa Rodríguez has announced this Monday that she is resigning from her seat in the Andalusian Parliament, where she has remained for almost eight consecutive years after accessing it for the first time after the March 2015 elections, and will return to her seat as Secondary school teacher in a public institute in Puerto Real (Cádiz), although she will maintain her position as spokesperson for Adelante Andalucía, in whose direction she will continue.

He made this announcement through a video broadcast on social networks, consulted by Europa Press, after, at the end of last November, he advanced in a television interview that his "relay" would take place "soon" as deputy in the Andalusian Parliament on the eighth anniversary of her entry into politics this year. Rodríguez made her debut by running for the 2014 European elections as a candidate for Podemos, with which she obtained a seat in the European Parliament.

Sources from Adelante Andalucía have specified to Europa Press that the resignation of the seat will be effective after the last plenary session of the current session of the Andalusian Parliament, set this week to host the final debate on the draft Budget of the Board for 2023, to which, therefore, Teresa Rodríguez does plan to attend.

The until now spokesperson for the Grupo Mixto-Adelante Andalucía in Parliament takes this step barely a month after another referent of this formation, the mayor of Cádiz, José María González 'Kichi', took a similar one by indicating that he was not going to Presenting himself as a candidate for re-election as head of the Cádiz City Council in the May 2023 municipal elections to also fulfill his "commitment" to not spend more than eight years in that position.

In the aforementioned video broadcast this Monday, and accompanying Teresa Rodríguez's own voice, images are projected with different moments of her career in Andalusian politics in which she defended that she would return to her position as a secondary school teacher, that "politics does not it is a profession", and that after two legislatures "you have to go back to work", thus betting on the "term limitation".

"We said that we didn't want to look like them or in our walks; we proposed many times to abolish privileges and they always voted against us, so we gave up official cars and a higher salary than we had before entering politics, to show that we were You can do politics without changing your neighborhood," Teresa Rodríguez underlines in the video.

The leader of Adelante thus claims that in her formation "we do not have ideas different from those of the system, but that we inhabit our actions every day with a different morality, because we want to change everything", and against this she warns that "the institutions of the State are a bubble of economic and symbolic privileges".

"Step on a carpet is an act that necessarily changes you," adds Teresa Rodríguez, who immediately warns that "suddenly you are no longer anyone's partner or neighbor, but your honor; they talk to you about you and they serve you water before you ask for it; suddenly the daily pains of your people are a corner in a notebook, a chore that piles up; suddenly you find yourself rehearsing a tune for the tribune like someone rehearsing an orgasm, suddenly it gives you courage not to they recognize your sacrifice, that they say, 'all the same', and you almost feel more supportive of power than with your countryman, and you are one step away from joining the union of the political class".

After that, she asserts that "many people before made much greater sacrifices, they gave up their freedom and life to defend the simple idea that collective happiness is above the greed of a few", and she wonders "who are we to , in the name of those same values, dedicate ourselves to living comfortably sitting on a bench".

Along these lines, Teresa Rodríguez proclaims that she is leaving her seat in Parliament "proud to have opened a new political space in which Andalusia raises its voice for itself, with its own accent, convinced that when the popular classes, when the Andalusian people we conquered the victories that really mattered, the historical processes of change were always beautifully anonymous".

"All that matters is activism and militancy," says Teresa Rodríguez, who invites those who supported Adelante Andalucía in the last elections "to organize yourselves, where you see fit." "I ask you to be something more than an individual who votes and faces his daily personal fatigue alone, because we only save ourselves together," the Adelante leader also launches.

In this regard, Teresa Rodríguez defends that "leaderships play a role", and for this reason "I will continue to be there", so that "I am not leaving politics, because politics is not Parliament", and she will continue to be the spokesperson for Adelante.

"You will continue to see me in the media, on the networks, in the assemblies, but I will be there with the feeling of having kept my word, for having accumulated only one type of heritage, consistency, the idea that we can like more or less, but we can be trusted when we commit to him."

"This is how the people of Adelante Andalucía are, because there is a replacement, and what a replacement," continues Teresa Rodríguez, whose seat will remain in the hands of José Ignacio García, who contested the June 19 elections as number two on the list for Cádiz and who was already a parliamentarian for Adelante in the previous legislature.

Teresa Rodríguez ends the video announcing that she is returning to the institute where she teaches, but "for all that I can continue to contribute from here, always count on me", she says goodbye with a recorded image in front of the façade of an educational center to which she is going to symbolize that return to his language classes.

After her election as a member of the European Parliament in the European elections of May 2014, Teresa Rodríguez participated in the elections to the Andalusian Parliament in March 2015, leading the candidacy of Podemos for the first time, which obtained 15 seats in the autonomous Chamber at that appointment with the ballot box , including one for her.

Three and a half years later, she revalidated her status as an autonomous deputy after running in the Andalusian elections on December 2, 2018 as a candidate for the presidency of the Junta, leading the lists of the Adelante Andalucía coalition, which in that appointment with the polls brought together Podemos and IU together with Andalusian groups.

In November 2020, Teresa Rodríguez was expelled from the Adelante Andalucía parliamentary group along with eight other deputies related to her at the request of Podemos and IU, after, a few months earlier, in February, she had announced her separation from Podemos after reaching an agreement with the then secretary general of the purple party, Pablo Iglesias, with whom he maintained "political differences of a strategic nature", on issues such as the formation of the coalition that the PSOE and Unidas Podemos agreed for the Government of Spain.

The parliamentarians expelled from the Adelante group -which later changed its name to Unidas Podemos for Andalucía- presented an appeal for amparo before the Constitutional Court that is still pending, and spent the rest of the legislature as non-attached deputies in the Andalusian Parliament.

Subsequently, Teresa Rodríguez stood for the elections on June 19 again as a candidate for the presidency of the Junta from the ranks of Adelante Andalucía, a brand that on this occasion no longer brought together Podemos and IU, and with which she obtained two seats, the one she herself got for the province of Cádiz and the one that went to Maribel Mora as the number one candidate for Seville.