In Podemos they continue to maintain their intention to remain integrated into Sumar, despite the total break with the space led by Yolanda Díaz, but they also contemplate the possibility that their departure may occur involuntarily. “I do not rule out that, just as they have kicked us out of the Government, they end up kicking us out of the parliamentary group,” its general secretary, Ione Belarra, admitted this Wednesday in an interview on TVE.
According to the now deputy household, until this Tuesday acting Minister of Social Rights, the five representatives of her party in Congress have the “right” to continue sitting on the bench reserved for the members of the formation that has formed a new bicolor Executive with the PSOE, with the who participated in the 23-J elections. To which she added: “Even if some people don’t like it, we are part of this coalition.”
“It is true that they have taken away our signature, it is true that the objective seems to silence Podemos, that Podemos does not speak, but Podemos exists by the will of its militants and the people who time and again trust us at the polls. “Here we are and we are going to continue speaking loud and clear to promote the transformations that this country needs. I humbly believe that people did not vote for the progressive parties only to make an amnesty,” he added.
From the management of the formation founded by Pablo Iglesias they had already made it clear that they do not plan to go to the Mixed Group, although they specify that it is not because it represents a reduction of more than 20% of the allocation they receive since, as they point out, it is a calculation that’s not even done. Their political strategy involves marking differences within Sumar itself to enhance its “autonomy” with a view to the European elections in July next year, in which they plan to recover the ballot with their logo.
Belarra insisted this Wednesday that what is being seen now is a “collaboration” between Pedro Sánchez and Díaz to carry out the “PSOE objective” of “removing” the party from the Council of Ministers. purple, which is “the uncomfortable part”, the one that “tells the truth even if it is difficult to do so.” In this sense, he has indicated that the majority partner of the coalition “has not taken well to the fact that there was a force that permanently acted as a mirror, told him everything that remained to be done and did not settle for those arguments that he likes so much about ‘technically’. it can’t be done’, ‘Europe won’t let us’… that we have heard throughout the entire legislature”.