The former Minister of Equality Irene Montero, who on Saturday was proposed as a Podemos candidate for the European elections, has considered relations with Sumar definitively broken after moving to the Mixed Group: “We can have its own way.”
That does not stop them from talking with Yolanda Díaz’s coalition and the PSOE, but they will defend at all times their full autonomy and their objective of transforming people’s lives, he warned in an interview in TVE when referring to the negotiation of the 2024 budgets.
A negotiation in which they are going to work so that “the democratic bloc is strong and united” but in which their objective is to improve people’s lives and for that reason, Montero said, they are going to demand, for example, that buy weapons “from the genocidal state” of Israel.
Montero has avoided answering whether Podemos, by breaking with Sumar, has breached the pact with the coalition, in which point 10.1 The express commitment to remain in the parliamentary group throughout the legislature is included. He has limited himself to saying that the decision they made “was very difficult, but necessary.”
“We were looking for something as simple as intervening in Parliament, the Podemos deputies could not do politics,” the former minister complained.