The Podemos crisis has no end and the trickle of dropouts in Madrid has added two new names this Monday. Those of his last electoral candidate for the Madrid City Council, Roberto Sotomayor, and the former purple spokesperson in the Madrid assembly Carolina Alonso. Losses motivated by the "unilateral" decision of the party leadership to break with Sumar and that follow that of its already former regional coordinator, Jesús Santos.
Sotomayor has detailed the reasons for her departure in an open letter to the militancy in which she states that "the dynamics that occurred in other regions were repeated in Madrid", where "no one picks up the phone anymore, nor responds to messages, acts and decides in small decision-making groups, some of us seem to be superfluous" and "the distances are increasing with the state leadership of Podemos."
In just one week, the party has lost its best-known faces at a time when it lacks representation in both the capital's City Council and the Madrid Assembly, which clearly harms its interests in the face of restructuring. which, according to purple sources, is being brewed from "Galapagar and with its back to everyone."
The former athlete signed by the general secretary of the party, Ione Belarra, has harshly attacked the internal drift of the party, emphasizing that in the Citizen Council "practically no important decision is consulted anymore, not even that of leaving the Sumar Parliamentary Group in some transcendental moments for our country."
"This is," Sotomayor continues, "a split and another step in a state strategy that has renounced the territories and the construction of a Broad Front." And he adds that "it is incomprehensible that the members of a management body found out about this news first through Canal Red and that those previously registered were not consulted with a clear question."
Sotomayor elaborates on what she defines as her "most important political difference: the resignation of the Frente Amplio and the double militancy" in Podemos and organizations like Sumar. He perceives "a need, demanded in the streets, demanded by civil society organizations, neighborhood associations, and social groups to configure a Broad Front."
Sotomayor's withdrawal is surprising after just a week ago she ran intensively to be the party's spokesperson candidate in the capital. However, the lack of "internal democracy" has put an end to their plans: "We can have the opportunity to influence this new tool, but instead, they have decided to confront it directly as if it were a championship to know who will get space will be about." "Winning a primary by dividing the militancy even more is not winning," he added.
Along the same lines, Carolina Alonso, after meditating on the decision and speaking with people who have supported her in recent times in the organization, has also disassociated herself from the organic structure of Podemos and from actively participating in the party.
"There are political, organic and personal reasons for making this decision, but the main one is that I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to even be a critical minority and I do not want to contribute to the disunity that is already ravaging us. Winning by dividing is not win and I do not share the current direction of the party, there are too many months of absolutely unnecessary bad times," he indicated.
The former spokesperson for Podemos in the Madrid Assembly concludes by remembering "those beautiful people" with whom she has shared "years of struggle", but "the departure of so many valid people from Podemos Madrid reaffirms me in my decision." "First the people, then the party," she concludes in the letter.
