Podemos neither forgets nor forgives his departure from the coalition government, which, in turn, has already become aware of the damage that Ione Belarra's party can inflict when Junts abstains from future votes. Especially when the one who sits down to negotiate with the purple formation is Sumar. But in case anyone might think that what happened yesterday was an isolated incident or a simple presentation of credentials, Irene Montero wanted to make it clear the day after by polishing her new role in the investiture at the same time that the founder of the party, Pablo Iglesias, He attacked Yolanda Díaz, accusing her group of being "lying."
The leader of Podemos and former Minister of Equality has warned the coalition Executive that, if she intends to count on the votes of her five deputies to carry out measures in Congress, she will have to give up asking for their support "in exchange for nothing." And in a clear message to Yolanda Díaz, promoter as Minister of Labor of the only decree passed yesterday in a Senate that acted as Congress, he stressed that they do not plan to "negotiate cuts" as they estimated when considering that the subsidy reform harmed pensions of the unemployed over 52 years of age, ignoring the explanations of the second vice president.
Taking advantage of several radio and television interviews, Montero has acknowledged that the decree "also incorporated improvements" for citizens who, due to the five purple votes, will not reach vulnerable families. But trying to avoid the guilty label, he has reproached the Executive for asking Podemos for its support "proposing a swallow."
The Government proposes that "if you want improvements you have to take a cut" and "I believe that this is not how it is governed," he said, criticizing the packaging with which Moncloa wanted to "sneak" the decree. And in seeking to capitalize on the debate, he has called on the Government to resubmit the decree without that cut - "which it is, whatever you call it" - for those over 52 years of age. So if they withdraw it, "we will be there to support it," he said, reducing the debate to favor his interests and without mentioning that his decision also prevents the subsidy from rising from 480 to 570 euros in the first six months of the year.
Regarding whether it bothers him to have voted against like PP and Vox, Montero has stressed that "the era of austerity is over", in reference to the Government of Mariano Rajoy, which he has said caused a lot of social suffering.
And asked if her vote yesterday was "revenge" towards Sumar after her complaints for having "excluded" them from the Executive, Montero has structured her response so as not to mention the name of the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, responding that in the current Only President Pedro Sánchez "commands" the executive.
In that sense, and again ignoring Sumar, the former minister has warned the PSOE that perhaps the time has come to change relations with her parliamentary allies to give stability to her mandate and rearm the investiture bloc, instead of going to a strategy of gathering support "vote by vote."
Former vice president Pablo Iglesias, for his part, has called it "stupid" to criticize that Podemos voted the same as PP and Vox to reject the unemployment benefit reform, as Sumar leader Yolanda Díaz has launched "You can vote 'no' to something for completely different reasons", he launched to reply that "the serious thing" is that Díaz called the PP spokesperson, Borja Semper, to negotiate with the popular people about that decree but he did not do it, he maintained, with the leader of Podemos , Ione Belarra.
In statements to RAC1, the former founder of Podemos denounces that "there has been a display of lies that has become normalized in Sumar's praxis: 'We will hold primaries', 'Veting is not our style', 'The decree does not involve any cuts.' ..", he has listed to make it ugly that Díaz "has not wanted to negotiate with the left."
Iglesias, finally, has also called for "naturalizing" the current parliamentary reality, which has led the PSOE to have to accept an amnesty with which it was against because it needed the votes of Catalan formations to make Sánchez president and has anticipated, like Montero, that the Government will have to "work hard" in the negotiations in Congress, something that "is not a bad thing."
