Podemos has launched its new role in the Congress of Deputies by hitting the table. He demands that Sumar have visibility in the parliamentary group and be able to act with “political autonomy” to the point of having the ability to distance himself from the rest of his colleagues to vote on his own on the issues that he considers appropriate.
Sumar’s group, whose 31 deputies belong to eight different parties, is in the midst of drafting a regulation to establish the rules with which its internal functioning will be regulated. Among them is voting discipline. Podemos asks for margin so as not to always have to conform to what Yolanda Díaz establishes.
“There may be debates about one direction of one vote or another that we will have to debate collectively, but ultimately we must safeguard the autonomy of the organizations in a coalition space,” stressed the Podemos deputy. Javier Sánchez Serna, which has argued that in other past legislatures there have been different opinions that have been reflected in different votes within Unidas Podemos. Although those were always very specific cases.
After this request for maximums, what is behind it is an open push by Podemos to Sumar so as not to remain invisible and maintain its own voice before public opinion. Whether within Congress and also in the future coalition government, if Pedro Sánchez’s investiture goes ahead. For this reason, the purple spokesperson stressed in his press appearance that his party is a force that “continues and will continue” doing politics “without any type of ties.” “That courage and that Podemos way of doing politics is going to be more necessary than ever in this legislature and we are going to exercise it with political autonomy,” he stressed.
From there Podemos has returned to the fray to demand ministries from Sumar and the PSOE. Demand seats in the Council of Ministers for people who are appointed by the Podemos leadership. That is to say, Ione Belarra and Irene Montero would not benefit from a minister who has a purple card if he is not under his discipline. “Right now we cannot conceive of Podemos being excluded from that coalition government,” Sánchez Serna concluded.