He criticizes that Sumar’s ministers will be “indistinguishable” from the PSOE and that regarding the European elections they will make a decision autonomously
MADRID, 22 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The leader of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has stated that her party will continue in Sumar’s group in Congress despite staying out of the Government and trying to assert its political autonomy, although she has deepened her total distrust of Díaz’s project. by saying that he does not rule out that they might be expelled in the future.
In turn, he has reproached the leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, he has had a collaboration with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, with the objective from the beginning of excluding them from the Executive and that now the ministers of the minority partner are “indistinguishable” of the socialists.
“I do not rule out that just as they have kicked us out of the Government, they end up kicking us out of the parliamentary group. But we have the right to be in this parliamentary group because, although some people don’t like it, we are part of that coalition,” she launched in statements to TVE, collected by Europa Press, to censure that Sumar has already removed them from the shortlist of deputy spokespersons in the chamber.
Along these lines, Belarra has defended that Podemos gave the vote of its five deputies “for free” to support the investiture, without even having a programmatic or government agreement with the PSOE and therefore their seats in the future, their seats will serve to try to achieve measures such as lowering the rent or repealing the ‘Gag Law’.
Also asked about whether they are contemplating attending the next European elections alone, Belarra responded that it is still early to make a decision but she is “very clear” about the new roadmap that the party’s bases supported and that, from now on, , Podemos is going to act with “total autonomy.”
And in that document, any future electoral alliance is conditioned on it being useful for the progressive electorate and on the holding of open primaries without vetoes.
In fact, Belarra has been convinced that Spain needs a transformative progressive force that does not bend “to the mandates of the economic powers”, convinced that the person who can best embody it is Podemos, and not a “left that blends in.” with the PSOE in clear allusion to Sumar.
In line, Belarra has admitted that her party is going through “difficult days” because the president, Pedro Sánchez, has managed to remove them from the Executive, something that he could not do in 2019, and that now, without Podemos as an “engine” for progress, it is forms a Government where only the socialists will rule, which also has a “conservative” proposal for the country.
From Sumar’s new ministers, the leader of Podemos expects the same attitude that Díaz already had in the last legislature, which is an “amendment to the entire political praxis” of Podemos and calling it “noise” to publicly disagree with the PSOE. when they asked to “go further” or demand that the government agreement be fulfilled, something that Sánchez did not take well because they were the ones who told “the uncomfortable truths.”
Furthermore, he has assured that demanding that the former Minister of Equality Irene Montero be his quota if he entered the Executive while maintaining that portfolio was not done thinking about “personal careers” or “partisan interests”, but from the conviction that it was the best contribution that her training could make to citizens, guaranteeing the promotion of feminist advances.
Proof of this criterion, Belarra has highlighted, is that they did not even propose that she herself as general secretary of Podemos be a minister and that Podemos has only asked for “respect” and the same treatment that has been given to the rest of the political formations.
“I think it is not too much to ask to demand that Podemos ministers be chosen by Podemos, it is not an erroneous aspiration,” Belarra argued to emphasize that respect for her party has always acted in a democratic manner and left in 2019 that ‘ commons’ and IU choose their own profiles.
In fact, he has stated that he holds the former purple leader Nacho Álvarez in high esteem, which was the offer that Díaz made to be the purple quota in the Council of Ministers and that he ended up resigning due to not having the endorsement of the leadership, given She is convinced that he would have been a good minister as would purple charges like Pablo Echenique or Rafa Mayoral. However, the collective decision of the organization was to bet on Montero.
