The former vice-president of the government and former leader of Podemos Pablo Iglesias assured on Sunday that if all the left-wing parties represented in the Congress of Deputies unite “they will have enough strength to bend the arm of Pedro Sánchez”.
In his speech at the Autumn University organized by the party, Iglesias challenged left-wing deputies to join Podemos in getting the president of the government to break relations with Israel and lower rent prices by law .
Thus, if the left really wants to “build unity”, it must join the four Podemos deputies in its demands towards Sánchez, whom it will only support if he fulfills the two conditions set this Saturday by the secretary general of Podemos , Ione Belarra.
“Everyone in Spain wants rents to go down and everyone wants Spain to do something real and not just gestures in the face of the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli government,” assured Iglesias before launching his appeal to the parties left so that they do it. what Junts already did, make their votes count to obtain amnesty.
During a panel discussion to discuss “the end of liberal democracy,” Iglesias said that politics “is not just about principles, but also about accumulating enough power so that principles become reality “.
He stressed that “to do politics, it is not enough to be right, you must have power”, a maxim that the right has learned well and which “is present in all areas where power is exercised” , whether among the economic, media, judicial or military elites, he explained. It is for this reason that he encouraged left-wing activists to “accumulate power”, because only by having power can one achieve specific goals.
