As if they were denying Yolanda Díaz's project and that the second vice president and Minister of Labor had picked up the baton that Pablo Iglesias gave her two years ago, Podemos has begun the process to live the future on its own.
The general secretary of the party, Ione Belarra, announced yesterday on social networks that Podemos will submit to the membership for consultation, today and tomorrow, the "new political roadmap" with which the party "reinforces its autonomy, its strengthening is guaranteed." as an organization and the articulation of pre-electoral agreements when these are useful and as long as the lists are configured through primaries and without vetoes.”
The referendum question includes all these categories, after becoming convinced that, given the secondary role they are playing in the birth of the new progressive coalition government that is being created, “we need to recover a strong Podemos that gives us back the ability to mark the direction of State.”
The consultation is an amendment to the entire direction that the space on the left of the PSOE has taken under the leadership of Yolanda Díaz. In fact, this is how Belarra expresses it in the announcement of the consultation, admitting that “it has become very evident that the objective of the process that we have experienced in the last two years was to reduce the capacity for political action and the representation of Podemos to replace our political project for a proposal that does not disturb the political, economic, media and judicial power structure.” Two years, just the time in which Díaz takes the reins of the space at the wish of Iglesias, who in this time has not hidden her disappointment in the way her dolphin acts.
In the document that is put to the vote, harsh criticism is launched at the leader of Sumar. They reproach her for “not meeting our objectives: expanding the political space and being the majority force in the Government,” which was precisely “the reason that led us to propose Yolanda Díaz as a candidate,” she points out. On the other hand, the vice president "has led us in these years to a harsh and deeply unfair process of electoral unity that has not met expectations and has resulted in a loss of votes and seats." This is, according to the document, the reason why “we have decided to open a reflection process to establish the new roadmap in this new stage,” they allege.
The result of the consultation will be known on Saturday, the day on which a political conference will be held at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid with which Podemos assures that it will close this process of collective debate.
