The rearmament that the leading core of Podemos has promised to carry out – starting with the formal proposal that Irene Montero be its candidate in the European elections – collides with the urgencies of the purple formation to plug the trickle of resignations that has caused its divorce from Sumar and whose last door was slammed this Wednesday by Sergio García Torres.
García Torres, until today a member of the Organization Secretariat (SEC) of the party, states among his arguments that ” Podemos has decided not to accept being in this Government, a decision that I cannot share. This decision makes me take a step aside, not being able to continue leading my organic responsibilities in the leadership of the party, as well as my participation in the governing body of Podemos.”
“I say goodbye to participation in the leadership of Podemos out of coherence, by not sharing the strategic drift of recent months,” he adds in a letter in which he recalls that “since 2015 I embraced the hypothesis of the need to participate in the spaces of governance to advance rights for those who do not have a voice. I understand that the leadership of Podemos, currently, has moved away from that premise with which I agreed and participated since its origin,” argues the former member of the purple party leadership.
This is a very similar pattern to what has been exposed in recent weeks by the former regional coordinator in Madrid, Jesús Santos, the former candidate for the City Council of the capital, Roberto Sotomayor, or the former regional spokesperson in the Vallecas Assembly, Carolina Alonso. Accusations of “bunkerization” and “absence of democracy” of the hard core of the party in the decision to break with Sumar and that hinder, with special intensity in Madrid, the reconstruction of the purple space after a last electoral cycle very negative for its interests.
García, who a few days ago removed the phrase “proud member of Podemos” from his profile on the social network General Directorate of Animal Rights “don’t make noise” in the next legislature. “We have achieved progress that was unthinkable until a few years ago and the new coalition Government should not be satisfied with what has been achieved, it is necessary to deepen these advances,” he said. in an open letter published on their social networks.
The accumulated casualties in Podemos hinder its attempts to reconfigure the political space to the left of the PSOE, for which Ione Belarra herself, general secretary of the party, made a call this weekend encouraging her supporters to register in the party: “We need all your hands and your intelligence to continue building the best tool for social and political transformation of our country, Podemos”.
