Everybody expected either the designated successor to be elected, or more probable, the election to be postponed due to current events.
But… there was a coup attempt from two sides !
The industrial workers federation thought that Martinez (the old chancellor) was not going hard enough, taking about negotiations instead of being totally intransigent, and well… they are right.
And the public sector federation wanted to push their own guy, who was more hardcore, but was pretty obviously a Trotskyite plant, there has always been a tension between the public sector workers who are more politicized and new-left on social issues and the industrial workers who are less politicized but what politics they do have tend to be more Stalinist and socially conservative.
So basically the public sector union guys tried a coup, but didn’t get the votes they expected, leaving the congress with 3 candidates with no clear majority, and a lot of tension from gayops that each camp did to get the votes.
And yeah, I have more than doubts on the cohencidence of a coup attempt right now…
So what happened is that the congress debated all night, under the table deals were made, and basically did a counter-coup, but they couldn’t select any of the candidates as the new chancellor because they were all tainted.
So they elected a woman (yeah, I know, but to be fair, two of the official candidates were too, and the non-woman candidate was a Trotskyist, which does always mean kike, even without an early life). She’s not totally unknown, she was head of the ‘management’ union and initially I was very worried because that’s by nature the less system-hostile federation (and still are on some points, I doubt she has the balls to be a great negotiator), especially since she’s got history in feminist crap (but mostly first wave, so not the sex-positive crap).
But then I got to deep dive in internal CGT politics, and it looks like she was selected for loyalty first and foremost, and she did make a few… let’s say interesting … choices.
The two foremost ones that ticked my attention being:
She pushed hard and did a lot of great work on whistleblower protection, both at the national level and at the EU level
She was MC for the CGT congress, and they did (as they usually do) a thing where they give the mic to street level militants, and the first contributor, and the one who had the most speaking time was a Palestinian activist!
Funny detail, anonymous sources in the central committee have called her “The third way candidate”, and those guys are trained marxists, they know exactly what the implications are.
