Nothing has changed in the last 24 hours, although there are still another 24 until the vote. The general secretary and deputy of Podemos, Ione Belarra, remains firm in her decision not to support the Government’s anti-crisis decrees that will be put to the vote this Wednesday and has done so by slipping that her party has had “no news in any sense from of the Government” to their demands.
Belarra has echoed the intervention made yesterday by purple spokesperson Isa Serra, insisting that, although the party wants to support the decrees, it will not vote “in favor of any cuts.” Which, in practice, would imply knocking down, among others, the unemployment benefit.
The former minister has reiterated at a press conference her interpretation that the reduction in the percentage of unemployment benefit contributions for those over 52 years of age, from 125% to 100% of the interprofessional minimum wage included in the decree issued by the Ministry of Labor that she leads Yolanda Díaz, represents a “cut” that could mean a loss of almost 40,000 euros in the amount of her pensions. Something that Sumar flatly rejects.
In the same way, he has also denounced that the decree to extend the social shield “has a very important hole in the housing measures” and indicates that, in his opinion, the Government is “living off the income, from what has already been done in the last legislature”, when Unidas Podemos was part of the Executive. Close sources indicated that the PSOE would have an easy time guaranteeing support for its decree if it committed to freezing the rise in rents, although Belarra also mentioned the demand to limit the profit margin of supermarkets to 2%.
The leader of Podemos has stressed that, since her party sent its proposals to the Government on Friday, they have not had “news from the PSOE in any sense” from it, which is why “the ball is in their court.” . The news, however, has reached him from Sumar. At least regarding the subsidy reform decree. Although Podemos is denying Yolanda Díaz as an interlocutor, addressing and appealing exclusively to the Socialist Party.
Interlocutors aside, Podemos has announced that it will study each decree and each measure “independently to try to improve them” opening the possibility of supporting one of them and overturning the other. “We trust that in the next few hours we will have some news,” ventured the leader of Podemos, who separated her decision from the “fully respectable” negotiation that Junts is making.
