Podemos is rearming itself to combat its foreseeable exclusion from the Council of Ministers and to face the stage of ostracism that awaits it in Congress, with a discreet role within Sumar’s parliamentary group. The purple party is looking for a way to come to terms with its new situation and to do so it has organized an event next Saturday, September 16, to try to show strength with its bases.

It will be a rally with its main leaders in Nelson Mandela Square in Madrid, in the heart of Lavapiés, the neighborhood where Podemos was introduced to society in January 2014. Now it is returning to the same area to send the message that the purple party continues to be essential in the new stage that is opening.

“We need more Podemos than ever,” proclaimed the party’s general secretary, Ione Belarra, in a video in which she harangues her supporters to attend the event.

That day Podemos wants to start its political course and gathers Belarra and number two, Irene Montero, on stage. Both continue to be government ministers to this day, but no matter how much the purple ones demand to enter Pedro Sánchez’s next cabinet, as long as there is an investiture, the truth is that it is very difficult for them to continue leading a ministry.

This perception has not only permeated within the party, but is evident from the words of Belarra, who makes a claim that Podemos is “the only political tool that has demonstrated its capacity for transformation in recent years.” “The only political tool,” he continues, “that has said what no one else dares to say.” Words that ignore the rest of the members that made up United We Can, in addition to Yolanda Díaz, there are other forces such as IU or the commons.

Belarra assures that the “cost of moving forward” has been “very high” but she conspires with Podemos supporters to move forward. “We are willing to continue building Podemos,” he remarks in that video.

In addition to Belarra and Montero, the Organization Secretary, Lilith Verstrynge; the Secretary for Institutional Action, María Teresa Pérez; the Andalusian deputy and coordinator, Martina Velarde; Podemos co-spokesperson Isa Serra; the delegate against Gender Violence, Victoria Rosell; the coordinator of Podemos in Catalonia, Conchi Abellán; or the citizen advisor of the Julio Rodríguez party. The intervention of Pablo Iglesias is not scheduled.

In that meeting with the Podemos militancy, he reported that “he will advance the next steps in the road map” of the party.