The confrontational strategy against the PSOE deployed by Podemos has today exhibited important cracks within the space of Unidas Podemos. This time it has been on account of who is responsible for the failure to repeal the so-called Gag Law. The purple party charges all the blame against the socialists and aligns itself with ERC and EH Bildu, who with their votes have led to the voting fiasco. However, IU and the commons, the main supporters of Yolanda Díaz within that political space, accuse the pro-independence parties of the problem and reproach an attitude that is labeled as “electoralist”.
The internal clash in United We Can has been visualized with a clash between Pablo Iglesias and Enrique Santiago, who has been the main negotiator of United We Can in the repeal of the Gag Law. The former Secretary General has published an article on CTXT to praise the position of Republicans and Abertzales in favor of prohibiting the use of rubber balls by the Security Forces and Corps. “What do you want me to tell you! The ERC, Bildu and Podemos are absolutely right in demanding that the repeal of the gag law, which the PSOE refuses to do, end once and for all with rubber bullets in Spain”, says Iglesias .
Santiago’s response, after the de facto disavowal implied by those words by Iglesias about his work, came minutes later on Twitter: “Unidas Podemos has worked to eliminate them [the rubber balls], but not achieving it still does not justify 4 more years of Gag”, has sentenced. In addition, he recalls that the Citizen Security Law, as the law is called, “does not mention rubber balls once, it is a matter of regional and State police laws. Nor is there a law in Catalonia prohibiting rubber balls eraser”.
The spokesman for Unidas Podemos, Pablo Echenique, dumps all the blame on the PSOE because “it has not wanted to make a last effort” to tie up the votes of ERC and EH Bildu in response to their requests.
In this sense, he has regretted that the socialist sector of the Government has not rolled up its sleeves to straighten out the negotiation and achieve a majority. The focus is placed on the responsibility that the Executive has in carrying out the projects and has exhibited it to the parliamentary partners. What, in his opinion, forces the Government to approach the positions of those parties for an agreement.
Echenique already said it in the previous day: if there is no agreement, “it would be a terrible failure of the legislature, there would be no excuses and only one person in charge”, the PSOE, because it has not wanted to give in on four issues: “disobedience”, “failures of respect for authority”, “rubber balls” and “hot returns”.
In addition to Santiago, the commons have also distanced themselves from that Podemos plot line to point out the responsibility of ERC and EH Bildu. “It is a pity that his electoralism in this case is paid for by the citizens in the streets,” Aina Vidal criticized at a press conference.
Thus, he has criticized that his “maximum” positions have prevented ending “one of the worst regulations” that the PP implemented. What threads with the public position of IU: Not yet getting the ban on rubber balls “does not justify four more years of Gag”.
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