With the newly incorporated Roberto Sotomayor y Carolina Alonso The list of names begins to be endless. In reality, it is the trail of resignations and abandonments that continues the turbulent history of Podemos since 2014 and that has peppered each of its different periods in these almost ten years of life. The match purple wants to inaugurate a new time now, that of a strategic refoundation to recover the lost throne in the alternative left to the PSOE, currently in the hands of Sumar, however, at the same time that it faces the challenge of reinventing itself, it shows more and more symptoms of decomposition . With a very serious crisis of flight of leaders, candidates and cadres.
Podemos was left in its bones in the regional and municipal elections last May, after a historic debacle that erased it from the map in parliaments of the relevance of the Madrid’s community o to Valencian Community, among others, in addition to the city councils of their capitals. Now he has just looked into the abyss by deciding to break with Sumar and leave the group that the coalition has in Congress to, from now on, take a risky and independent flight with his five deputies framed in the Mixed Group. They are the spearhead of Podemos’s solo adventure to avoid the situation in which he has ended up Cs.
The divorce with Sumar also means a political break with the parties that comprise it, such as United Left (UI) or common. Forces with which they still share joint spaces – thanks to the May event – and which are now immersed in maximum uncertainty about their future. This gives the whopping figure that today there are only 22 members of Podemos who have a record in the Cortes Generales and the 17 regional parliaments and who have declared obedience to the tandem guidelines Ione Herb e Irene Montero. For now. Well, some of them have been vehement in demanding understandings with Sumar. Thus, Podemos stands on feet of clay.
These 22 people to face the crisis are distributed like this. On the one hand, there are the five national deputies of Congress. From there, in the autonomous chambers there are four in the Basque CountryThree in Andalusiatwo in Estremadura, Navarra y Murcia Region; and one in Catalonia, Aragon, Balearics y Castile and León.
Podemos had a female deputy in Asturias, Cova Tomé, but she was recently expelled from militancy and is at odds with the leadership. The other members of the Podemos-IU groups in Catalonia, Andalusia, Extremadura, The RiojaNavarra or the Basque Country belong to IU or the commons.