The relief that Sumar and Podemos feel at having put an end to an “impossible” coexistence within the same parliamentary group does not imply a truce. Even less when they are yet to be assigned the roles of victim and executioner of the plot. And in this struggle their respective spokespersons find themselves with the delivery of the purple minutes as a throwing weapon.
This is what Sumar’s spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies, Marta Lois, said in an interview on TVE, who has classified it as “an objective fact that, if a political force appears within a group and abandons it, in an assessment strictly political, it is an abandonment”. “In coherence,” she added, she sees the request made by the common members as logical for the five purple deputies to return their minutes, which corresponds to Sumar.
Lois, however, did not want to put too much emphasis on this section and, refusing to use the term “transfuguism”, advocated going “beyond” this debate: “We must have a higher vision and think about our voters,” he said. indicated.
Regarding the Galician elections, Lois has questioned whether both feuding parties in Madrid can unite their paths. “We have to be realistic,” she admitted. Although she “has always reached out to unify the space of the left,” she has insisted that it be recorded in the future distribution of blame.
Podemos, for its part, does not want to look like the bad guy in the movie and its spokesperson, Isa Serra, has not been slow to hit back, accusing Sumar of having broken the electoral coalition agreement that both organizations signed to run in the general election. July 23th.
The Podemos spokesperson detailed that the “cornering” suffered by Sumar has been key in accelerating the divorce between both parties: “It was the only decision we could make taking into account the continued strategy” by Díaz’s organization. to “decrease the forces of Podemos until leaving it without a voice” in the Government and in Parliament.
In the absence of his quota within the mixed group, Serra has insisted on guaranteeing the stability of the coalition government although he has warned that he will assert his votes to continue advancing in social rights. “The PSOE is aware, not only that it needs Podemos, but that Podemos is the one who has proposed the most advances for our country in the previous legislature,” he concluded as a friendly warning.
