The general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has proposed that only women be in charge of responding to the candidate Ramón Tamames during Vox’s motion of no confidence in the Pedro Sánchez government that will take place on March 21 and 22 in Congress.
The also Minister of Social Affairs, asked how United We Can respond to the initiative in an interview on TVE, has limited herself to pointing out that the group is discussing these days how to intervene and that they will communicate it as soon as they have decided, but she has raised an idea that goes beyond the purple formation.
“It seems to me that it would be a good idea for only women to intervene in this motion of censure,” Belarra has put on the table, for whom “if there is something in Vox about anything, it is that they are macho.” “They are macho in the sense that they do not recognize gender violence and are against women’s rights, even recognizing that we have a problem of inequality between men and women,” added the purple leader.
“It would be a good image if we women were the ones to stand up to the extreme right,” concluded the also Minister of Social Affairs, after calling the motion “gross” that will not succeed “even if it is dressed in many flourishes.”
It is not the first more or less original proposal that has been suggested to respond to Vox’s motion of no confidence that has no chance of succeeding. In this sense, ERC proposed to the rest of the formations, before the initiative was scheduled, to ignore Tamames and all agree to read a common paragraph as the only intervention in the debate.
The interests of the other parties, in particular the PSOE, which takes the vote of no confidence “very seriously” and intends to confront its political project with that of the right and the extreme right, ruined the claim of the Republicans. In fact, from the PSOE, Podemos and some of the partners of the investiture block, such as ERC or EH Bildu, were asked not to ignore or ridicule the initiative.
