Former Vice President Pablo Iglesias has claimed that Podemos is not a "domesticated" left, as the country's oligarchies hope, in his opinion, and predicts that the formation will continue to be a "fundamental actor" on the political plane and in the "ideological" struggle ". Iglesias has made these statements, collected by Europa Press, at the Autumn Uni, the ideological forum of the formation.
On the other hand, the co-spokesperson of the purple formation, Isa Serra, has denounced that Podemos is a victim of "judicial harassment" and that the causes against its formation are explained because there is part of the justice system that "prevaricates".
"The fundamental political project that organizes all the oligarchic wills in the country is very easy to define: kill Podemos. What they have been saying since 2014 is that we need another left, that in Spain there is room for another left but not that of Podemos", Iglesias has broken down.
His presence at these conferences has raised the sympathizers who have come to listen to him in the auditorium of the Faculty of Political Sciences, who have applauded and cheered him to the cry of "Pablo, Pablo" and "Yes we can".
Within the framework of the debate table dedicated to lawfare together with the Government delegate against gender violence, Victoria Rosell, and the party's state co-spokesperson, Isa Serra; Iglesias has attacked that these economic and media powers want a left with certain requirements, such as "applauds the transition, applauds Fraga and applauds the King." In short, the project for the country that they defend from these spheres is "to return to a left that does not bother."
He has also said that the message sent by the oligarchies only allows a left that "takes care of the things of eating, of the poor like the NGOs", but not the one that points to "the media powers", that "wants to have representatives in the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) or that includes judges and soldiers on their lists.
"Let Santiago Carrillo's left come back, damn it! Let that left come back and let Podemos die," Iglesias launched during the act, alluding to the movements he detects against Podemos in the high powers of the country.
Moreover, he stressed that this left "was domesticated" because "it was never going to reach the Council of Ministers", have representation on the board of directors of RTVE, enter the CGPJ or denounce that "there is corruption in the media.
During his speech, the former leader of Podemos has at no time made references to specific parties or to the project promoted by the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, a context of reconfiguration that has aroused tensions in the progressive space.
On the other hand, it has also defended that the element that explains the lawfare generated against Podemos is its "will" to be in the spaces of the entire State, from the representativeness and legitimacy that the votes it receives grant it, and to fully comply with that objective has prescribed that there is a need for people with the will to occupy these responsibilities, "alliances in economic power" and that there are "left" media to rebalance the "correlation of forces" in the country.
He has also criticized that some media analyst has pointed out that the monarch Felipe VI could play a role in unblocking the Judiciary, when the current King is a "symbol" of the right. Instead, he has indicated that the appropriate thing is to appeal to Parliament and promote a change in the election system to enable the appointment of members by absolute majority and take away from the PP its veto capacity, as United We Can has already demanded from the PP.
At this point, Rosell has criticized that Podemos has suffered a somewhat degree of lawfare and has also reproached that the CGPJ must be "democratized", which until now has behaved like that "great reactionary power" with its pronouncement with feminist laws.
He has also appealed to the need to "politically rehabilitate the institutions" and has referred to his veto to be part of the CGPJ, which amused him about his exclusion when they told him that his was not a matter of names. "If there are no more names on the table, you will have little shame," the former deputy of United We Can commented humorously.
On the other hand, he has demanded that possible candidates to enter the CGPJ appear in Congress and thus make the process more transparent so that the names and proposals of possible candidates are known, given that in his case he had a program that was public.
Again on lawfare and its "Hispanic expression", Iglesias has explained that they fundamentally affect the Catalan independence movement and Podemos, reflecting that the phenomenon of this judicial harassment lies in the fact that power is willing to renounce its own "legality".
Next, he has charged against the former socialist president Felipe González and has attacked his "justification" of the Antiterrorist Liberation Groups (GAL) and that "the sewers should exist" despite his aura of "great statesman".
Then, he pointed to the head of Defense, Margarita Robles, as his "outstanding student" for her explanations about the Pegasus software and its presence on the mobile phones of pro-independence leaders under the argument that Spain "has the right to defend itself." All this, in her opinion, is a conclusion and it is that in the end it is a "group of leftists and communists" who defend the rule of law "when things get bad."
Meanwhile, Serra has criticized that the "judicial war" is a "mafia practice" that uses power to seek the "disqualification" and "defamation" of people who are active in transformative political forces or the "criminalization" of social activists, which supposes a "political violence" where the media, in his opinion, have a fundamental role.
In this sense, the leader of the purple party has denounced that Podemos has suffered lawfare in processes such as the so-called Niñera case, in the Neurona' case, in the case against Rosell by former judge Alba or herself, who was convicted of the crime of injuries to law enforcement officers based on "false evidence."
"The cases against Podemos happen because the Justice prevaricates, the Police abuse their power and the media lie", he snapped to censor Rosell's attempt to exclude him from entering the Judiciary when the PP tries to put militant magistrates. A veto that, as he has highlighted, the purple formation is not going to accept in any way.
"What happens in Spain cannot be explained without the resistance of justice to the democratic transition", launched the leader of the party, denouncing that this establishment is a "refuge for Franco" and "far-right" people to stop democratic advances promoted by the Government. Serra has also charged against the "patriarchal justice" in part of the judiciary that continues "violating the rights" of many women or "criminalizing protective mothers."
