The founder of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, has taken for granted the break between his party and Sumar after confirming that the purple party will not be present in the next government.

“A period is opening in which Podemos will clearly distinguish itself from Sumar. Sumar will be in the government, and Podemos outside,” Iglesias assured in the program El Món a Rac1, in which she has attacked the formation led by Yolanda Díaz, charging against the legitimacy of her deputies; “Neither the people that Sumar will appoint as ministers, nor those who will go on the lists, no one has voted for them,” stated the former second vice president.

Along the same lines, the former second vice president has stressed that “when someone asks why Yolanda Díaz will never hold primary elections, it is obvious. All of Sumar’s parties, except Podemos, do not have militants, and that creates an enormous problem of political legitimacy.”

Likewise, Iglesias has stressed that more than 55,000 militants of the purple party have voted in favor of Sánchez’s investiture, and that this is “ten times more militants if we compare it with the only party within Sumar that has consulted with the bases.” ; United Left”.

“Irene Montero is sad,” said the founder of Podemos. “She did not like being kicked out of the government in this way, nor have the forms like the PSOE, Sumar and Yolanda Díaz been the profile of the political violence that the Ministry of Equality has suffered,” clarified the former leader of the party. dwelling.

Despite this, he has applauded the purple party after commenting on the results of the vote of its bases, which have endorsed support for the investiture of the acting president of the government, Pedro Sánchez. According to Iglesias, this is “a notable level of discipline” in what he has described as “a context of widespread unrest” that will be, according to his predictions, “the expulsion of the Podemos government.”

The former second vice president of the government has also predicted the next step for Podemos, which, in his opinion, “will bring closer its alliances with Bildu, ERC and the BNG in a left-parliamentary logic, at a time when the government will have a very difficult time.” to promote progressive measures”,

In the same sense, Iglesias has argued that “an exciting new path begins for Podemos”, which, in his opinion, will become a party of equal importance to Junts, the PNV or Bildu, and thus “will avoid the risk of being completely made invisible by a government with less initiative than the previous one. “That is what Sumar will end up neutralizing,” concluded the founder of the purple formation.

The five Podemos deputies, included in Sumar’s group, have committed to supporting “exclusively” the investiture of Pedro Sánchez after consultation among their bases, with 86.1% (47,675) votes in favor, as announced by the training led by Ione Belarra just two hours before Sánchez’s investiture debate.

The consultation with the Podemos bases began on November 11 at 10:00 a.m. and concluded yesterday at 10:00 p.m., 55,372 registered participants participated, of which 7,586, 13.7%, have chosen to vote no to the investiture of the Podemos party. general secretary of the PSOE.

An abstention on the part of the purples would have led to an election by simple majority in the second vote, something that would not have happened if the five Podemos deputies had opted for no.