The Podemos militancy has supported by a large majority the new strategy to reinforce its “autonomy”, the “strengthening as an organization” and lay the foundations for future coalitions so that “the lists are configured through primaries and without vetoes” like the one left out of the candidacy Add the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero. In this way, the purple party tries to rearm itself against the platform with which it participated in the general elections in the heat of the fight for the distribution of portfolios in the face of the foreseeable reissue of a two-color Government with the PSOE.
“Thank you to all of you who have seen clearly that we had to stop dead the operation that has been underway for the last two years, which had the objective of replacing Podemos with a left subservient to the regime,” the general secretary of the organization congratulated herself this Saturday. formation, Ione Belarra, at an event held at the Fernando de Rojas Theater in Madrid in implicit criticism of Yolanda Díaz. “Enough disrespecting Podemos,” she added.
86.5% of the 30,883 registered voters who participated in the consultation have endorsed with their vote the approval of the political document that culminates the “organizational strengthening process” undertaken in the month of September to “recover a strong Podemos” and with “the ability to set the direction of the State” to “take democratic, feminist and environmental transformations further than anyone ever before.” “They are not afraid of us for what we have done, but for everything we have left to do,” stressed the party leader.
In an intervention full of references to Díaz, Belarra has hinted that Sumar will not have the capacity to influence the foreseeable reissue of the coalition that has been at the head of La Moncloa for the last four years. “The PSOE is completely determined that only the PSOE is in charge in the Government, doing and undoing as it pleases. In addition to being a profound political error, it is enormously irresponsible,” warned the leader of the purples.
Also very critical of the second vice president was Montero, who closed the event by assuring that they are not going to leave “despite the enormous political price” that they want to “make them pay” for the transformations they promoted during the last legislature: “Now they want “That coalition government [in which Unidas Podemos was] is an anecdote, now they want to tell us that it was possible before but that now it is no longer possible, that our path of transformation has ended.”
The final version of the political document that will mark the future of Podemos includes a direct warning to Sumar: the votes of its representatives in the institutions “must be negotiated and never given away.” In this way, the purple formation definitively opens the door to going it alone during the legislature despite having participated in a coalition with the Díaz platform with which it also shares a parliamentary group in the Congress of Deputies.
In the preliminary text it already included a mechanism to prevent party leaders and affiliates from landing on Díaz’s platform when it takes the form of a party: prohibiting “double militancy.” In its final wording, a further step has been taken by incorporating the express reference that its original brand will never be diluted under other acronyms.
Podemos does not provide the total census of those registered in the party, so it is not known exactly how many have endorsed this new roadmap with their vote. In June, in the consultation to approve the electoral coalition with Sumar, nearly 52,000 militants spoke out, and before the regional and municipal elections in May, more than 35,000, in both cases figures higher than the 30,883 who have done so now.
