The word “discretion” is the political mantra this season for the parties that aspire to reissue the coalition government. Neither the PSOE nor the formations that joined Sumar to run with a single ballot in the general elections want to publicly reveal their letters for the negotiations that they maintain both between themselves and with the groups they need to be able to build a majority in the Congress.
But there are messages that, even with caution, can be read between the lines. And among them stands out the one that Podemos, whose initials have been diluted under the umbrella of the platform led by Yolanda Díaz, aspires to once again have representation in the Council of Ministers .
The until now spokesman for the purple in Congress, Pablo Echenique, responded to the question last week in an interview in TVE limiting itself to pointing out that it is “evident” that Ione Herb e Irene Montero, responsible for the portfolios of Social Rights and Equality, “have made progress that until a few years ago seemed impossible.” And he rounded off the argument like this: “This is not about party demands, but about how to advance further in Spain, and there is the service sheet of the two.”
less subtle was Echenique yesterday when commenting on Twitter a news from elDiario.es WhatsApp messages about the illegal return of minors from Ceuta in August 2021 involving carmen bald y Fernando Grande-Marlaska, both within the socialist quota in the coalition. «The Ministry of Ione Belarra was the only one who tried to stop it. That is why they do not want Podemos to be in the Government, “he slipped in a message, implying that with the nature of the negotiations in the making they could stay out of La Moncloa.
Pablo Iglesias also referred to the matter cryptically yesterday by retweeting the link to the video analyzing the results of the 23-J elections that he broadcast on his television channel the day after the scrutiny. In it, the founder of the purple formation warned that if Pedro Sánchez manages to form a new Government “it will not be stable” because “it will need all the parties of Sumar, which are not the same and that perhaps they are not all in the hypothetical Government of Sanchez, along with ERC, eh Bilduhe PNV and the BNG vote in favor of each Law and that Junts does not vote against ».