The earthquake that the agreement reached between PSOE and Sumar has caused within Podemos has had patent and latent effects. The visible ones are the monumental anger of the party leader and former general secretary, Pablo Iglesias, against the former mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, who the day before yesterday reminded Podemos that their seats and financing are the result of an agreement signed in July that they must respect. The advantageous resource pact that Podemos started in the negotiation, putting it before the lists, depends on it. Two articles written in ten hours, in Ara and in Diario Red – which he himself directs –, and a vehement intervention in El Món to RAC1 express the anger that Colau's words have provoked in Iglesias, who, acting as commander in chief of his party, assured that what was said by the former mayor of Barcelona “will have consequences.”
But the real storm broke out behind closed doors, in the diminished structure of the purple party. The state leadership gave an express order the day before yesterday that no purple official applaud in public - media or social networks - the agreement reached by the negotiating team that, paradoxically, is led by the acting Secretary of State for Social Rights, Nacho Álvarez, who is also a member of the Podemos executive, in which he has held the position of Secretary of Economy since 2014. Álvarez is also responsible for the main achievements of the purples in the last legislature, from the Housing law to the social shield through the negotiation of the Minimum Income Vital with the Minister of Social Security, José Luis Escrivá, or the three general budget projects of the State.
The general secretary of Podemos, acting minister Ione Belarra, applied the doctrine with precision and dedicated Tuesday morning to glossing the successes of the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, but Podemos failed to discipline its territories. The leader of Unidas por Extremadura, Irene de Miguel – the only head of the purple list that improved its results on May 28 – celebrated the agreement reached with the socialists for a progressive coalition government, and the leadership of Podemos did the same. in Euskadi. The same goes for the only regional deputy of Podemos in Asturias, Covadonga Tomé, against whom the party leadership has opened an expulsion file.
In the Podemos State Citizen Council – which does not meet formally but is articulated through a Telegram group – the offensive against Nacho Álvarez was twofold: for working for three months to reach the agreement and for defending it in the media. during the last 48 hours. Council sources assure La Vanguardia that “the harassment of Álvarez” experienced yesterday in the Citizen Council group was “an embarrassment.”
The state leadership of Podemos considers that it has been ignored during these weeks – despite the fact that the leader of Sumar's negotiation team has been the Secretary of Economy of Podemos –, although at the moment they do not contemplate the possibility of voting against Pedro's investiture. Sánchez, as explained yesterday by the leader of the purple ones in RAC1.
After the layoffs experienced weeks ago in Podemos and in its media branch, Canal Red, for those who defended the urgency of an extraordinary assembly of the party to analyze the electoral and political drift of the formation, the state leadership is focused on the new phase in the that Sumar's dialogue with the PSOE begins, consisting of forming the eventual cabinet.
Podemos continues to demand a position in the new coalition executive for the acting Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, despite the fact that the PSOE already informed them three months ago of its categorical refusal to let Montero repeat in the coalition in the event of an agreement.
