Podemos returns to the charge to claim a ministry, although on this occasion it has also revealed who it wants it to be for. The general secretary of the party purple,Ione Herbsues the PSOE and Sumar that Irene Montero repeat as Minister of Equality in the next Executive if Pedro Sánchez carries out the investiture. “It would be the best contribution of Podemos to this new Government,” she stressed.
For the still Minister of Social Rights, the PSOE and Sumar must “reflect” on what has happened in recent times and “recognize” that they “were wrong” in dealing with her, both when assessing her management as with the “veto” that he suffered in the candidacy of Yolanda Díaz.
That self-criticism that you ask for indicates that it must be resolved by making him repeat the position. “Podemos wants Irene Montero to continue being the Minister of Equality, because Irene has placed our country as an international reference in the field of feminist and LGTBI rights,” Belarra said in an interview on Canal Red.
For Belarra, Montero is the “best” equality minister that Spain has ever had and the “best” that “women” can have. “You can have a good academic level, a very refined feminist theory, but what Podemos contributes is that it takes the fights to the end”, she has claimed, saying that only the purple ones are capable of withstanding the “pressure”.
For the general secretary of Podemos, Montero is finding “outside” the recognition that PSOE, Sumar and others do not give him inside, to the point that the laws (Trans, only yes is yes or abortion reform) that he has promoted in the last legislature “are authentic international references that many other countries are copying.”