The rupture between Podemos and Sumar has shaken the political framework in recent hours. The party led by Ione Belarra is going to the mixed group of the Congress of Deputies and will make its own path with its five deputies. The one who was Belarra’s predecessor at the head of the purple formation, Pablo Iglesias, has assured, in statements to El Món to RAC1, that this movement makes them feel “happy and relieved”, since now they will have their own voice in the chamber.
Iglesias has explained that they had no alternative after so many disagreements with Sumar in recent months. “Not only because of the veto of Podemos in the government, but because they had left the party without the capacity for political influence in the parliamentary group.”
Podemos’s decision has been surrounded by new casualties in the purple party, from which the leaders of the Community of Madrid, Jesús Santos, and the party’s spokesperson in the Parliament of Catalonia, Jessica Albiach, have distanced themselves.
The break was reported this Tuesday in Congress by the spokesperson for the purples, Javier Sánchez, who argued that Podemos has adopted this measure after “having tried to do everything possible within the group” to continue doing politics, but finally that effort ” has proven impossible.”
Although their votes will be decisive in being able to carry out any initiative, the PSOE spokesperson in Congress, Patxi López, has stated that the breakup will not paralyze the parliamentary policy of a progressive Government, although he has regretted that the left has been divided. .
“It is not good news,” because it represents the division of the left, said Patxi López, who reproached Podemos for not having notified the parliamentary group of the decision taken.
The former deputy and leader of Drago Canarias, Alberto Rodríguez, has described it as a “case of blatant transfugism.” In a video published on social networks, Rodríguez lamented that the Canary Islands are once again left “without representation” in the Congress of Deputies.
“It is the second legislature that they have stolen our representation,” said the former deputy, who has assured that the move from Podemos to the Mixed Group is “a case of flagrant transfugism.”
From the opposition, the popular ones have considered that the departure of Podemos adds instability to a “provisional” Government that now, apart from reaching a consensus with actors such as the former president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, or the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, will have to do so with the general secretary of the purples, Ione Belarra.
With the move to the Mixed Group, Podemos will have to agree with the deputies of UPN, BNG and with the deputy of CC the distribution of time in the interventions they have in the plenary session of Congress and in the parliamentary committees, since any internal issue of the Mixed Group must be agreed with them.
In addition, the subsidy and material resources provided for in the Regulations for parliamentary groups will also have to be distributed among the four political parties.
