More than half of the participants were excluded from the presentation of the biography of Irene Montero, we will have done something (Navona), this Monday in Madrid. The fault can be divided into two: the room reserved for Madrid was too small and, even more, a good part of the seats were reserved for the old guard, service advisors and former party members.
In the front row only were the former secretary general of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias; the current general secretary, Ione Belarra; former organizing secretary and spokesperson, Pablo Echenique; and the current organizing secretary and spokesperson, Pablo Fernández. Also Isa Serra, Juanma del Olmo and Julio Rodríguez, among others. For a little over an hour, the La Casa Encendida auditorium became an alumni reunion.
Despite the attempts of some members of Sumar – mainly IU – to try to sort things out and reunify the space to the left of the PSOE, it was to be expected that no one without a violet card would show up at the event. And so it was.
Montero’s political biography and public presentation were filled with references to the person who succeeded Pablo Iglesias as “space leader.” Yolanda Diaz. Choosing it, believes the former Minister for Equality, was “the biggest political mistake we have made”.
“We give all the power to who doesn’t want to change anything” said Montero in reference to Díaz and the PSOE, majority partner of the coalition government. “We took this decision thinking that it would serve to expand the electoral space and therefore to have more transformative power, but we decided deceived. “
The current MEP from Podemos, who was already in the Council of Ministers when Iglesias designated Díaz as his heir at the head of the former Unidas Podemos, argued that this election responded to an attempt to expand his sphere of influence. influence, which was his “obsession”. “since we came to govern.”
“If we have more power,” Montero analyzes, “we will be able to do more things more quickly, if we balance the balance of power with the PSOE.” The problem, according to this same diagnosis, is that Díaz would have ceded all the space flags to the socialists and would have made compromises with policies that “for us They were unthinkable“, in reference to Podemos.
The former minister recalled “what it cost” the socialists to assume “a cooperative relationship” with the formation of a progressive coalition government, in which there was “a correlation of forces” tight enough for Podemos to be able to impose its criteria on certain occasions. This is not the case for Sumar, it is true that the Congress is no longer what it was during the last legislature.
“While I give a lot of credit to progress, I recognize many spaces in which we understood each otherwe accepted and we were loyal to the agreements. At that time, we told them: “We want to coordinate with you, not subordinate ourselves and exercise our political autonomy.” The political operation of these years has been to replace the political leadership with another leadership without Podemos and which does not want to exercise power,” he explained.
