Podemos will not be in coalition with Sumar in the Galician regional elections scheduled for February 18. It has been decided by the bases of the purple party in an express consultation in which, with 62.36% of the votes, the agreement reached by the autonomous managements of the two parties just 72 hours before, after a few weeks of tense negotiations.
The rejection of militancy implies, by extension, that the former councilor of A Coruña Isabel Faraldo is the head of the list of Podem Galícia in an election in which the unity of the left seems key to prevent the PP of Alfonso Rueda reissue the absolute majority obtained in 2019 by the then president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
The final decision of the plebiscite - in which 2,513 registrants participated - endorses the thesis amplified by Diari Red by the ex-leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, to call for a boycott of a pact which, for his part, yes defended Juan Carlos Monedero, founding member of the party, after considering that the fact that there are four candidates on the left is a "failure".
All this in the face of the coldness displayed by the current national leadership of the party, which avoided at all times endorsing a coalition pre-agreement that was uncomfortable for them. Especially after the national break with Yolanda Díaz's platform took shape at the beginning of December.
The silence was only broken yesterday by the current general secretary, Ione Belarra, who, through social networks, highlighted that "the important decisions in Podemos are made by the people". Just the opposite of what some of the former leaders of the formation who have dissociated from the party in recent weeks have expressed, after criticizing the "lack of democracy" and the "unilateralism" with which the party's leadership decided to leave the parliamentary group to join the Congress and relegate the five lilac deputies to the mixed group.
The Galician goal kick with a Madrid header ends a tumultuous week in the ranks of the purple party. Seven days in which the renewal of the national leadership took place –with the appointment of Irene Montero as political secretary and the departure, among others, of the Secretary of Relations with Civil Society, Rafael Mayoral–, the suspension of militancy by 13 ex-members of the party leadership in Catalonia after having defended in June the unity of action together with Sumar and the expulsion, against which "there is no recourse", of Covadonga Tomé - the only purple deputy in Asturias–.
In Sumar, for their part, they regret the decision taken by the Podemos militancy. "We did what we had to do. There is a historic opportunity to bring Galicia out of paralysis and to breathe new life into the Xunta. And we are there for this and only for this", stressed sources from the confederal space yesterday.
