Podemos has taken the definitive step and has broken ties with Sumar, a platform, that of Yolanda Diaz, in which he felt cornered and which, to a large extent, he blamed for having been “expelled” from the Government. Now the five deputies of the formation household They decide to leave the Sumar parliamentary group and become part of the Mixed Group where they will have a greater parliamentary subsidy and, above all, they will have their own voice to defend their proposals.
The decision was made by the Podemos secretariat this afternoon but, in fact, it had been being considered since the last investiture debate. Pedro Sanchez and was consolidated after confirming that the purples They would not have any position in the Council of Ministers. “The straw that broke the camel’s back,” according to party sources, was Díaz’s decision to leave them without a deputy spokesperson in Congress and annul their ability to present initiatives in Congress.
This annihilation of their voice has been clearly demonstrated by not allowing them to intervene in the first debate held in the Chamber regarding Spain’s position in the conflict between the terrorist organization Hamas and the State of Israel. a confrontation in which the purple ones demand the breaking of Spain’s diplomatic relationship with Israel and the accusation of the Jewish Government of perpetrating a genocide against the population of Gaza.
However, the deep reasons go much deeper. We can also blame them for having “blocked” all the initiatives that they have tried to champion and even for having torpedoed the possibility of distributing the speaking time in the Chamber so that the purples, led by Ione Herbwill participate in the investiture debate of Pedro Sánchez.
Now, with its move to the Mixed Group, Podemos not only makes a five-seat hole in the left-wing, pro-independence and nationalist majority that supports Sánchez, but also acquires its own voice to defend its postulates and becomes an actor with which the Executive will have to negotiate face to face in the same way as it does with the PNV, Bildu, ERC, Junts, CC or BNG.