The former vice president of the government and former leader of Podemos Pablo Iglesias has warned the former mayor of Barcelona and leader of the commons, Ada Colau, that her “threat” to her former party, over which she maintains a great influence despite not having an organic position, It represents “an unprecedented lack of respect and will obviously have consequences.”
In statements to RAC1, Iglesias has charged against the former mayor after yesterday she urged, in an interview on La2 and Ràdio 4, Podemos to comply with the agreement with Sumar in the face of possible economic consequences: “He has signed it and must comply with it, because if If it does not comply, it will not have all the return it has in economic matters,” the leader of the commons said yesterday. Colau was referring to the possibility that the five Podemos deputies integrated into the Sumar parliamentary group do not maintain group discipline, for example, in the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
In this sense, the acting Minister of Equality and Iglesias’ partner, Irene Montero, distanced herself yesterday from the programmatic agreement reached yesterday between PSOE and Sumar for the reissue of the coalition Government by ensuring that her party has not been aware of the negotiations , so he avoided evaluating it until “reading the document.”
However, Sumar’s spokesperson in Congress, Marta Lois, who was convinced this Wednesday that Podemos “will not have any problem” in supporting the Government pact, has assured that they informed the purple formation of the negotiation. with the socialists: “They have been aware,” “up to the minute.”
Iglesias, first in an article in the newspaper Ara, has attacked his former ally, whom he has accused of reflecting in the interview his “authoritarian frustration” and an “exhibition of impotence” with Podemos and has asked her to respect his autonomy within by Sumar. Shortly afterwards, in the El Món program on RAC1, the former vice president said that the former mayor “can keep her authoritarianism wherever it fits.”
“It seems pathetic to me that Colau tries to exercise a power that he does not have,” said Iglesias, alluding to the withdrawal of the money that Podemos owes for its presence in Congress, which Colau referred to yesterday. “It is outrageous,” The former purple leader has insisted, who sees in the words of the head of the commons a swallow: “Either you obey or we will take your money,” he translated.
“You must try to hide your unconscious drive,” Iglesias warned Coalu, adding that the former mayor’s statements “are an unprecedented lack of respect for Podemos militants and will obviously have consequences,” without clarifying which ones. “It’s enough to mistreat to Podemos,” Iglesias has cried.
“What you should do is apologize and not continue with threats and arrogance, because this logic does not help the left-wing agreement,” warned the former vice president, who recalled that the economic rights of the parties “are proportional to the weight that each one has.” and neither Colau nor Díaz can doubt that.”
On the other hand, Iglesias has regretted the lack of loyalty that, in his opinion, Colau’s words imply. “We have always defended Ada like lions; We have always been loyal even in the most difficult contexts. I believe that a minimum of loyalty and decency must be maintained,” he said, while calling on the former mayor to apologize to Podemos.
However, Iglesias has taken the opportunity to attack Sumar, a party that has assured that it will never accept primaries in which Podemos participates because, in his opinion, “they are convinced that Podemos would sweep.” “We can be criticized for many things, but we always held primaries for everything,” he recalled, accusing Yolanda Díaz’s party of “running by hand,” while accusing her successor in Pedro Sánchez’s Executive of veto Irene Montero, “Yolanda Díaz vetoed Irene Montero. She understood that she was a political figure that made him feel threatened, that he could be better than her and she told him: ‘to another political formation.’ “It is enormously aggressive.”
Despite the crisis between Podemos and Sumar, Iglesias has asserted that the purple vote in favor of Pedro Sánchez’s investiture “is not in question.” “It does not enter into anyone’s head to vote against, not even that of Esquerra, Bildu or the PNV,” he stated. “The only ones who would be capable are those from Junts and less and less,” admitted the founder of Podemos.
However, Iglesias has claimed that Podemos must have representation in the new executive. “If Podemos is not part of the government, I understand perfectly that its deputies say that they should not take communion,” the former purple leader acknowledged. In fact, Podemos maintains among its demands that Irene Montero retain the Ministry of Equality.
