1. Measure the size of your crisis. Crises are inherent to parties. In democracy you win and you lose: there are always bad afternoons. But there are defeats to defeats. There are some that are permanent. A political party must know if that is the case. Know how many faithful militants you still have and if that is enough to continue and wait for better times. Or on the contrary, change the name and organization of the party.
2. Give an honest self-criticism. Every party in crisis must make a true self-criticism. But don’t spend so much time on that. You have to distance yourself from self-flagellation; of the endless litanies of complaints and blame, because it is the never ending story. Self-criticism has more to do with the possibilities of surviving and transiting. Based on that, it is necessary to open a discussion of possibilities rather than regrets.
3. Know that the real enemies are within. Yes, and more in a party crisis. When things are not going well and a party loses the government, the spaces are reduced: disagreements grow. Everyone blames each other for failure. Politics becomes a concert of reproaches; of enemies of the same party. It is when the cacicazgos impose their law, power and money. In a crisis, not everyone loses.
4. Rid the party of its toxic leaders. Not all leaders have the decency to leave the party, when they affect it with their performance and their bad reputation. Militants have to take firm action. They must separate the leaders who are a burden, rather than a support for the party. If a party cannot do that, it must seriously think about whether it has the right to continue to represent its members.
5. Renew yourself. Everything has been modernized in current times and the parties cannot be the exception. Change your old practices and ways that no one cares about. Get away from the same old speech. Ideas also age. Know how to read what society really cares about. Renew yourself. Visit from time to time to the imagination. change. Everyone is doing it.
6. Give up the homesickness. In politics there is always a time of splendor that hardly returns. Do not live in the past. He does not want to convince the electorate of everything that, according to the party, he did for the country. That no longer interests people. It even annoys him. Nostalgia sometimes gets in the way of politics. More to this impatient politics today.
7. Build a new narrative. The narrative in power must be confronted by a narrative of the opposition. If the party in crisis does not have its own narrative against power, then it will be a harmless opposition. Useless.
Source: Debate
