The leader of Podemos and acting Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, has demanded this Thursday, in statements in the Congress of Deputies, that the veto that PSOE and Sumar have imposed on the purple party be withdrawn and has alerted them, Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz, that if they “persist in the fundamental error” of maintaining the veto, “the real transformation will be seriously compromised.”
Likewise, the distance between Podemos and the party led by Díaz has become clear, after the minister revealed that she has not spoken with the leader of Sumar since July 23, the day the last general elections were held.
Although the acting Minister of Social Rights has avoided commenting on the rupture between the two parties, the leader of Podemos has recalled that her party was “the engine” that promoted the great measures of change of the last legislature, and has criticized to Sánchez for preferring the “docile left” that according to Podemos represents Díaz’s formation.
The founder of the party that Belarra leads today echoed this same idea this morning through the editorial published by Diario Red, which is directed by Iglesias himself. In it, the former second vice president of the government assured that the PSOE prefers a party that accepts Sánchez’s political leadership without making ‘noise’.”
“Yolanda Díaz will have to accompany Sánchez discursively, but those of Podemos will have no obligation to do so,” the text of the editorial stressed. This is what Iglesias himself commented yesterday, in an interview on RAC1, after highlighting the legitimacy of Podemos’s decision, endorsed by more than 55,000 members of the formation, “ten times more militants if we compare it with the only party within Sumar that He has consulted with the bases; United Left,” said the former secretary general of the purple formation.
Iglesias pointed out in his editorial that, if the separation becomes effective, the future of Podemos involves participating in the elections to the European Parliament on June 9, 2024 and “measurement” against Sumar.
The main cause of the discord is the distribution of ministries where Podemos does not fit into Sumar’s plans, according to the leader of the party and the former secretary general. In the purple formation they describe that, it is not that those from Díaz have not told them that they are not going to hold any ministry, but that nothing has been told to them in one direction or the opposite.
Even the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, made reference to the distribution of ministries in his speech yesterday in the investiture debate, when asking Sánchez “what do we do with Podemos? Do we give them a ministry?” Along the same lines, the opposition leader refuted Sánchez: “Are you the most feminist government in history, and are you going to dismiss the minister of equality? Coherence and responsibility.”
Also the leader of Esquerra Republicana in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, winked at Podemos in his speech at the investiture plenary session, in which he took the opportunity to thank Irene Montero and Ione Belarra for the work they have done in the last legislature “and I hope “We can add together,” stressed the pro-independence deputy.
