Podemos will reinforce its autonomy after having been excluded from the Government, which has not taken them by surprise, but they do not clarify if they will break with Sumar nor do they confirm if they will attend next year's European elections with Yolanda Díaz's coalition, although everything indicates because they won't.
In a press conference at the headquarters of the purple party, the spokesperson, Pablo Fernández, called it a "serious mistake" that "Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz have kicked Podemos out of the Government, but they do not seem to contemplate it, according to purple sources. , the option of leaving Sumar to go to the Mixed Group, although they predict that coexistence will be complicated.
The same sources have indicated that although they could control the Mixed Group and have more money since it currently only has three deputies (Canary Coalition, BNG and UPN), being in the Mixed Group is not a panacea either, insisting that its speaker is very limited in this group.
Fernández has also criticized Sumar for using "the trick" of Nacho Álvarez, already former Secretary of State for Social Rights with Ione Belarra, to whom he offered a ministry on Friday in exchange for Podemos to stop insulting Yolanda Díaz, who is repeating as vice president. second and Minister of Labor in the new coalition Executive. "It is a rather crude maneuver, it is qualified by itself," Fernández stressed.
According to other sources, Sumar knew that Nacho Álvarez, although relegated for a long time in Podemos and very close to Díaz, would not accept such responsibility without Belarra's endorsement and she would not consent to a minister being imposed on her since her bet was that he would continue. Irene Montero at the head of Equality.
Throughout the weekend Belarra and Díaz have exchanged messages - they have not spoken since the election night, last July 23 - but at no time has the Minister of Labor proposed an alternative name, according to sources. In any case, they have pointed out, if they had been interested in Podemos being within the Government, they would have been negotiating.
Despite no longer being in the Government and having limited capacity within the parliamentary group (they cannot register legislative initiatives on their own), they are going to play the card of the five seats they have to pressure Sumar and the Executive.
And that is why they are going to assert their independence to continue promoting the advances and social transformations that they defend, said another of the spokespersons, Isa Serra, at the same press conference.
According to Podemos, his absence from the Council of Ministers "limits when it does not curtail the possibilities of change in Spain," repeated Pablo Fernández, for whom the Government that was formed this Monday is a simple brake "so that the right does not govern, without go further and in which the most conservative options win. And he has referred in this sense to the fact that Fernando Grande-Marlaska or Margarita Robles once again hold the same Interior and Defense portfolios, respectively.
