Deputy Elisenda Alamany's resignation from the role of Catalunya en Comú-Podem's spokesperson in the Catalan Parliament, just months out from the municipal elections, merely shows that the party's crisis is much more serious than was anticipated in early September when Xavier Domènech abandoned all his positions, citing personal reasons. Alamany, his right-hand woman for the Catalan election last December, was second on the list of candidates and has a clearly pro-sovereignty profile, which was nothing but strengthened last week with the creation and presentation of a platform which aimed to redirect the heading of a party which has been progressively distancing itself from progressive sovereignism.
Today, En Comú is no longer that party which, against expectations, and after a good electoral campaign, snatched the post of mayor of Barcelona from its then-occupant, Xavier Trias, by a few thousand votes under Ada Colau. That breath of fresh air has been diluted by erratic management, with Colau incapable of even contriving alliances with other parties to govern the Catalan capital and to redesign a worn-out city model. Her civic initiatives, when she's had them, count as fiascoes and her relationships with different groups, both businesses and associations, couldn't have been worse. To this, we have to add great skill at becoming invisible every time the city has hit a setback and a great ability to transfer the problem to other authorities. This lack of leadership and these errors leave her today a long way from regaining the office she's held since 2015.
Now, with the perspective of time, we can understand Domènech's resignation better; his hands were surely tied over the policy he could pursue in the Parliament. Alamany's resignation letter from the role of spokesperson couldn't be clearer: "I regret having to say that we're far from that which we wanted to overcome and that dynamics and political positions are being repeated which are very evocative of other parliamentary groups which had gone before us". The shot at her colleagues couldn't be clearer or more direct and, as already happened last legislature with former deputies Albano-Dante Fachin and Àngels Martínez, in the end, surely, cannot be good.