Podemos’ complaints about not receiving a ministry in the new coalition government occurred this Wednesday, two days after Pedro Sánchez announced his new cabinet and a day after the transfer of portfolios. One of those affected, the general secretary of the formation, Ione Belarra, already a former minister of social rights, has not ruled out the possibility that Podemos will end up being excluded even from the faction of the coalition in which it was involved in the July elections. . “I do not rule out that, just as they threw us out of the government, they will end up throwing us out of the parliamentary group,” Belarra said in an interview on TVE, emphasizing that her party “has the right to be there “. this group, because even though “some people don’t like it, we are still part of this coalition.”
“It is true that they took away our signature, that it seems that the aim is to silence Podemos and not to speak Podemos, but Podemos exists by the will of its militants and by the will of the people, who continue to trust in us in the polls,” emphasized the leader. And, in his opinion, he highlighted the fact that progressive voters “voted solely for it.” [los partidos progresistas] impose an amnesty.” Belarra expressed her support for the clemency measure, pointing out that there are “other reasons,” such as the decline in food prices and that variable-rate mortgages are no longer “suffocating” people, as she explained.
“At the moment we have a government in which the ministers are indistinguishable and in which only the PSOE and Pedro Sánchez govern,” criticized the general secretary of Podemos. She has emphasized that her education did not force her name as a minister in the new cabinet, but that of another outgoing portfolio holder, Equal Opportunities Minister Irene Montero, one of the left’s ultimately unfulfilled demands. Wing formation. “We have always put the country’s objectives first and, given the reactionary offensive that lies before us, we believe that the best contribution that Podemos could make to this government was for Irene Montero to continue to lead it of the Ministry of Equality.” Since feminist politics represent a dam against the far right, they are the ones who enable us to move forward and give the women of this country reasons to trust us and the government. “All the women who helped us stop the rights on July 23 had reasons to vote for this government because they knew very well that Irene Montero was the best minister in the Ministry of Equality,” explained Belarra. However, she and Montero had the two worst average scores in CIS surveys last semester.
Belarra has insisted on the idea that it was Pedro Sánchez who ensured that she and Montero were expelled from the executive branch, but she has not shied away from criticizing Yolanda Díaz, the leader of Sumar, the coalition in which just before 23-J Podemos joined. “Yolanda Díaz makes a change to the entire political practice of Podemos: she says that what Podemos does is noise and I defend that the only thing Podemos has done is to demand compliance from the Socialist Party “We disagreed when we thought we had to go further,” emphasized Belarra, a member of Congress.
When asked why Podemos rejected one of its figures, Nacho Álvarez, as the new Minister of Social Rights, as Sumar offered last week, the party’s general secretary assured that he would have been “a great minister”, but justified the rejection on facts of “Respect”. He assured that in the previous government agreement no one understood that the then general secretary of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, had decided who would be minister on the side of En Comú Podem or Izquierda Unida. “Does not work like that. “There has to be respect in politics, and that is what Podemos finds so difficult to achieve,” he lamented.
Belarra stressed that from now on and to the extent possible, her training will continue to “deepen the transformations”. […] with the strength that the citizens have given them” and has stated that they will do this so that “rental prices are regulated, to reduce rental prices in Spain, to continue to pursue feminist politics, so that the conciliation policy does not fade into the background “Background for the gag law to be repealed once and for all…”
What influences the most is what happens next. So you don’t miss anything, subscribe.
Subscribe to
Subscribe to continue reading
Read without limits
_