Podemos opens a phase to “redefine” his relationship with Yolanda Díaz and his role within Sumar. He already signed the coalition reluctantly and on the edge. Now he is taking steps to rebel against the secondary role that the new leader has reserved for him, with the purples diluted in the Congress group and foreseeably absent from the next Council of Ministers shared with the PSOE. Thus, Ione Belarra yesterday promoted a process to change the organization’s strategy – which now no longer places her as its candidate – and achieve a shield from militancy that allows the leadership to “protect” its “autonomy as a political force” and its ” ability to make decisions” within Sumar. It is a weapon with which to challenge Díaz that he has the right to her own flight, although at the moment a breakup with her would not be on the table.
That does not mean that management has the thesis that the relationship must change. “Agreements under these conditions cannot be repeated,” Belarra stated yesterday when announcing this change in course, because it is “unfair” and “it cannot be called unity.”
And with that proclamation, Podemos yesterday presented a political document – which when the bases vote for it will, for all intents and purposes, be their new “road map.” starting November 4– in which it toughens the conditions for Sumar to close future agreements or renew the current one. The candidacy lists, he emphasizes, will “always” be through “open primaries without restrictions and without vetoes”so avoid what happened for the generals with Irene Montero or Pablo Echenique and balances with respect to other forces. Likewise, there must be “mutual respect for the autonomy of the different political forces that make up the corresponding coalition.”
On the other hand, the new political document tries to sabotage Podemos leaders and activists from landing in Sumar and helping Díaz grow his project at the party’s expense. purple. As? It is absolutely rejected that they can join. «In Podemos there is no double militancy»it is sentenced.
This seeks to stop specific leaders such as Nacho Alvarez or Alexandra Hyacinth, who have served as spokespersons for Sumar during the general election campaign, can become even more involved and form part of the future management bodies. And in the coming months, Sumar will face its birth as a new political party, and will have organs and internal life, like PSOE and Podemos have. In fact, EL MUNDO already reported its new statutes in June and they stated that the Sumar party will allow double militancy, thus giving entry to people from Podemos, IU, the commons or other formations.