"My political differences with the leading core of Podemos are enormous today. It is enough to see how I have practiced politics these years in my municipality and how they have done it to see that we see things differently." This is how Jesús Santos, until today general coordinator of Podemos in the Community of Madrid, summarizes his departure from the purple formation in a letter with which he stars in a new episode in the process of decomposition of the formation when, internally, there is a debate about how the next European elections must be faced.
Santos, current deputy mayor of Alcorcón and former regional deputy after the purple party was left without representation in the Madrid Assembly, denounces that "what in 2016 fit within Podemos, today no longer fits due to the reinforcement of a political line focused on its self-affirmation and in building increasingly thicker borders".
Santos does not give names, but clearly points to the former minister and general secretary, Ione Belarra, and her circle of trust, which includes the former leader of the party, Pablo Iglesias, and the former Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, as architects of the drift. self-destructive movement of Podemos: "Only those of us who dared to try political practices different from those proclaimed by the hard core of the leadership," he assures, have been saved from "both regional and municipal collapse widespread throughout the country."
The former general coordinator of Podemos in the Community of Madrid clearly states one of the most serious errors committed by the leadership of his party by underlining that "the refusal of the purple core to participate in Magariños - the official presentation ceremony of the Sumar al platform attended by all the confluences - was made based on a self-fulfilling prophecy that has ended with a total and incomprehensible shock" for the vast majority of the population.
In addition, Santos was one of the main supporters of the confluence process initiated by the vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, for the creation of Sumar. In fact, the last municipal campaign Díaz showed her support for Jesús Santos himself by going to this town at the start of the campaign.
"Instead of asserting their political capital to influence the strategic direction of this new tool, the leading core of Podemos understood this process as a competition for ownership of space. It would be time for a deeper reflection, but my main disagreement lies in "I do not believe that political spaces preexist the will of the people and that it is enough to occupy them, but that it is the people, with their vote, who end up validating or rejecting the different strategic and political proposals," Santos reasons in his farewell letter. .
With the departure of Santos, which follows that of the former regional spokesperson, Alejandra Jacinto, completed just two months ago, and that of the coordinator in the capital, Luis Nieto, Podemos is left without candidates recognizable by the citizens to attempt a reconstruction that avoids your demise. Sources consulted by La Vanguardia admit the serious situation that the party faces after being left without representation in both the Assembly and the City Council of the capital. "In addition to muscle we lack cohesion and we have plenty of friendly fire," they add.
All this while, at the national level, the formation maintains its frontal struggle with the leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, to the point that no one rules out a total break that would force the five purple deputies to move to the mixed group under the pretext of "maintaining their autonomy" within the confederal space in which the commons, Más Madrid or Compromís, among others, coexist.
