The drama in the political space to the left of the PSOE lasts at least a couple of hours: the leadership of Podemos announced this Friday that it will run with Sumar in the parliamentary elections on July 23, but at the same time it has not met all the conditions of the dated negotiating team of the second vice president of the government, Yolanda Díaz, flatly rejected the agreement, thus opening a public fight over the terms of this merger.
Podemos Secretary General Ione Belarra has stated in a video that the decision to participate in the elections in a coalition with Sumar had been “taken” and that her party had signed the document, which was registered today in the electoral committee, depicting, that an electoral coalition is “guaranteed”. At the same time, however, he said that the Podemos leadership did not accept the “veto” over the presence of Irene Montero on the electoral lists, nor the positions offered by Díaz’s negotiating team on those lists; Podemos considers some positions to be insufficient because, according to his analysis, they could lead to the party being expelled from the House of Representatives in the next legislative period. Podemos therefore intends To the electoral coalition today, Friday, but will continue to discuss the details of the agreement for ten days until the deadline for submitting the specific lists for each constituency.
Ione Belarra intervenes in a no-questions-asked appearance this Friday.
Sources from Sumar immediately replied that Podemos’ presence in the candidatures was “largely guaranteed” and that they “do not accept” that the formation of Belarra put them “on the stage of Andalusia”, indicating the very tough negotiations between them alludes to formations of the left that took place ahead of the Andalusian elections in 2022 and led to a struggle of such proportions that the pact eventually materialized outside the legal deadline and the coalition failed to formally include Podemos. “The coalition will register this afternoon,” these Sumar sources warn, without clarifying whether it is an ultimatum for the Belarra party. The intention of Díaz’s negotiating team is to shut everything down today to avoid the strain that extending negotiations for another 10 days would entail.
“We will run with Sumar in the general elections, that decision has been made,” Belarra declared in the video, who then amended the entire offer presented by Díaz and even opened fire on the vice president’s negotiating team. “We have been told that the presence of Irene Montero is an insurmountable obstacle to an agreement. “It saddens me deeply that Yolanda and her team are proposing to base the coalition election agreement on the expulsion of a colleague who has pushed feminist transformations further than anyone before,” Belarra defended in a very harsh tone, before interpreting Sumar’s motion and walking away assumes that Podemos’ “most important political capital” will be “sacrificed”.
The equality minister, according to the party leader, intervened in the Podemos executive to “make herself available” to the formation and “do what is necessary, however unfair it may be, to ensure unity”, which “everyone refused have”. “. the members” of the management board. “We do not accept a veto as part of the negotiations,” stressed Belarra. The Secretary-General’s statement comes after explicit consultation with the party’s militancy, which, with 92.92% approval, has granted the executive full power to decide the deal with Díaz.
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“With the latest offer that the Sumar negotiating team made us, Podemos could be left without representation in the Congress of Deputies,” Belarra also said before asking the vice president for “a fair deal.” “We hope we don’t have to wait until the last minute To the coalition. “The settlement can be reached in a very short time if Yolanda’s will is there,” he noted.
Party sources reiterate that the commitment to unity is “firm” and assure they will be included in the coalition list today, although a final agreement has not yet been reached. For Podemos, at this moment, the expulsion of the Minister for Equality, a figure with enormous wear and tear in government due to the management of the crisis of the only Yes is Yes, is a red line because it would mean “humiliation”. . These sources believe that this veto represents in practice a rejection of the party’s presence. Some voices within the leadership also warn that there is still time to correct errors in the registration of this coalition. Article 44 of the Electoral Regulations Act states that the “period of correction” is 48 hours, although the Sumar team appears unwilling to accept that the negotiations remain open.
Alongside Montero’s veto in what has been a particularly difficult week for the minister – to the two blows to the law of just Ja is Ja with the UN rapporteur’s criticism and the Supreme Court’s approval of the reductions in sentences, a verdict of infringing the law on Honor the same Friday, Podemos declined to allocate the positions. They denounce that this is based on the 2019 composition of the chamber and that the current scenario could be far worse. The formation also does not accept the quota of 23% of economic resources or the representation that Díaz offers at the congress table, in the commissions and in the interventions in the plenary.
Alberto Garzón: “Sorry for the noise. Nobody deserves this”
Shortly after Belarra’s intervention, the federal coordinator of the United Left, Alberto Garzón, announced his party’s approval of Sumar and issued a statement apologizing for all this public strife. “I would like to apologize to the public for the noise caused by this process. No one deserves this and we at IU believe things can be done differently and much better,” he wrote on social media. The consumer minister assured that the IU had ensured the presence of MEPs in the future group and that they would work “autonomously and in coordination” with the rest of the group. The organization’s number two, Sira Rego, has decided to step down and stop listing in order to “facilitate” the presence of party members in other areas. “Our formation has the greatest organizational reach and institutional presence of any that make up this space, and that will be essential for the future of the left,” Garzón puffed out his chest in his statement.
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