The former vice president of the Government and former leader of Podemos Pablo Iglesias insists on the need to run with the Sumar platform in the general elections at the end of the year despite reproaching and regretting the criticisms made by the second vice president of the Government and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz , against him and his party in the interview broadcast yesterday on La Sexta in the Lo de Évole program, and in particular for accusing the purples of worrying about lists and money, accusations that he sees as "hypocritical" and "petty" .
Iglesias has responded in statements in RAC 1 to each of Díaz's taunts, and has wondered how "this salad of hosts" helps to build unity. "In what way did yesterday help Colau to be mayor again or for the left to retain the government of the Valencian Community", she questioned after pointing out that the vice president "cannot be happy" with yesterday's interview.
Despite this and the "anger, pain and sadness of many people", the former purple leader has opted for Podemos to continue reaching out for unity and has expressed his wish that "what happened yesterday", alluding to the interview, be a "turning point to bring this agreement closer" that he deems "necessary" since the electoral law "is very clear and it would be enormously stupid not to go together to the general elections." In this sense, Iglesias has revealed that this Monday he is receiving messages from many people from Sumar acknowledging that the interview "did not go well" and that he is "making them reflect."
The former president of the Government regretted the neglect of the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, in yesterday's interview and called it "hypocritical" and "mean" that Díaz criticized that the parties, in reference to Podemos, worry about "the money, the lists and the released and little of the program" to deny that the problem to go together is the open primaries. "These discussions are always there and denying them is hypocrisy," replied Iglesias, who also pointed out that it is "mean" that Díaz wields it after having held public office for so many years.
Díaz complained yesterday about the "so sharpened" role of Iglesias in Podemos and that it is "arch present" and called on him to "let people fly." Faced with this new reproach, the former purple leader, who has also given his opinions on the matter in the digital Context, has recalled that he is only doing what his general secretary, Ione Belarra, has asked, since Podemos has no one to defend his ideas In gatherings on TV and radio, he has already recalled that he is only allowed to be on RAC1 Tv3 and Ser. "If I kept quiet, there would be no one defending the ideas of Podemos," he stressed. In fact, asked if he would be willing to have a face-to-face with Yolanda Díaz, Iglesias has made himself available to Belarra. "If she decided that it is disrespectful and that she is the one who should be in that face-to-face, I would agree with her," he acknowledged.
