He emphasizes that the final confirmation is still missing to ensure that Díaz is a candidate and warns of the mistake that the division would be
MADRID, 9 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the United We Can parliamentary group in Congress, Jaume Asens, has assured that “nobody questions the leadership” of the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, and has been conciliatory by also stressing that the opinions of former leader Pablo Iglesias on the relevance of Podemos within the left must be “respected”.
“We cannot allow ourselves to criticize or reproach any partner in the space. Nobody is left over and we are all necessary,” he stressed in statements to TVE, collected by Europa Press, questioned by the exchange of messages between Iglesias and Díaz in recent days. And he has defended that the space to the left of the PSOE requires unity and reconfiguration to re-attract people who distanced themselves from United We Can, instead of falling into the mistake of dividing.
The former vice president stressed on Sunday his commitment to the confluence of Podemos and Sumar, the platform promoted by Díaz, but warning that the formation must be respected as a fundamental formation on the left and urged the vice president to clarify soon if she is going to be a candidate , who also owes her achievements in Labor to this party that fought for her to be a minister.
Yesterday Díaz said that he does not owe “anything to anyone and that he is not going to be distracted in responding to the words of the former leader of Podemos, he stressed that Sumar “is not a complement to anyone” and that he is willing to “take a step forward” because the platform is “unstoppable”.
As to whether Díaz’s willingness to move forward implies that he is already announcing his candidacy for the general elections, Asens has opined that the “definitive yes” and a “confirmation” by the vice president are still missing, since he only spoke of willingness.
As for the tension that has arisen, Asens has chosen to lower it by saying that, as president of the parliamentary group, he cannot “reproach or criticize” any colleague and prescribes being “generous, humble” and “respectful” with everyone.
He has also warned that we must learn from the “mistakes of the past” that the left as a whole has made, because their adversaries from United We Can want them “divided” when they need “the opposite”, “to be more and add more”.
Regarding his assessment of the irruption of Iglesias in the debate on the confluence, the leader of En Comú Podem has stressed that he has been a “key leader” and that without his contribution in the past, United We Can not exist now. Therefore, Asens respects his opinions that are part of the plurality of the confederal space, revealing that the opinions that he has to express will be made in the internal organs.
It has also rejected that Sumar is a “political party”, as the leadership of Podemos has slipped, and that now it is only a process of citizen listening, whose main protagonist is Díaz, and that the degree of “indefinition” of a movement is normal that it is in an incipient process and of which it is not known what it will become.
“At the moment it is what it is and in the future it will depend on the listening process,” added Asens to clarify that they are not talking about “lists” or in the “electoral” construction phase in relation to Sumar, but about something “previous “
Finally, he has supported the vice president’s initiative because it is necessary to reconnect with “many people” who, for one reason or another, have been disconnecting from politics in general and from the confederal space in particular.
