"There are nine days left to rectify and we hope they will reconsider it." The signing of Podemos in the agreement with Sumar seems to lead the caution of the liquidation firms that end up in the Labor Court: "Signing, not conforming." Lilith Verstrynge, number 4 of Sumar for Barcelona for the July 23 elections and organization secretary of Podemos, insisted this Saturday that the exclusion of Irene Montero from the confluence lists is "a manual political error" and assured that does not contemplate that Sumar does not give in.
Podemos, Verstrynge explained, understands that Montero embodies the persecution and harassment – political, media and even judicial – that the purple formation has suffered and that his absence is not to reinforce a punishment for the party but for the entire feminist movement. "It sends a very dangerous message of disciplining the feminist movement, women and the whole of society that wants to get involved in politics," she said in a brief statement on Saturday.
The number two of Podemos explained, in this sense, that the decision of her formation to run together with Sumar is not so much, in this sense, a voluntary act as forced by the agonizing circumstances in which the elections are posed: "We are going to present ourselves to the 23-J elections with Sumar because anything else would make it easy for the right and the ultra-right”.
In the same sense, the letter that the general secretary, Ione Belarra, has addressed to the Podemos militancy in which she repeats her argument from Friday is expressed: despite stamping her signature on the confluence agreement and on the lists released yesterday - who reserve 15 starting positions for Podemos–, the purple ones do not admit the veto to the Minister of Equality.
Belarra assures that "we have been threatened that, if we do not accept these conditions, we would be excluded from the electoral coalition, as has already happened in Andalusia", where the purples prolonged the negotiation until the final minute and ended up arriving late for the signing, to despite which the rest of the formations included them in the lists. "This is a decision that cannot be reversed later," explains the purple leader in her letter, "for this reason the Coordination Council has agreed to sign the electoral coalition with Sumar without an agreement, to reiterate that the veto of Irene Montero is a error and must be lifted, as well as urge Yolanda Díaz's team to continue negotiating during the next week until the lists are presented.
In recent hours, this statement about the exclusion of Montero has been controversial because, although Sumar's negotiating teams deny it, other sources close to the negotiation assure that there was no such veto and that it was Irene Montero herself who refused to join Sumar lists as number one for Bizkaia.
