The electoral setback that Podemos-Aragón suffered in the past 28M elections has resulted in the resignation of its top manager, Maru Díaz. In a statement published this Thursday on social networks, the purple leader announced that she is renouncing her deputy act and that she will leave the party's leadership in the community after the general elections on July 23.
"I am aware that the polls sent us a clear and forceful message and for this reason, in coherence, I consider that it is time to take a step back," he stated in the letter. She is the first territorial leader of Podemos to leave office after the electoral debacle suffered by her formation throughout Spain.
Díaz says he made this decision after "analyzing and reflecting" on the "disastrous result" harvested in the last electoral appointment. The purples only managed to keep one of their five parliamentarians in the Cortes, while their institutional presence in all of Aragon was reduced to five councillors.
Therefore, he pointed out that it is time to assume responsibilities. "If in victory you have to be generous, I have always believed that in defeat you have to be brave and know how to step aside," he says.
To do this, she renounces collecting the act of deputy on June 23, the day on which the new Cortes are constituted, and will cease to be coordinator of Podemos-Aragón after the general elections. Facing the future, she leaves in the hands of the "sovereign militancy" the "new direction" that the organization must take.
Likewise, he called for "high vision", "generosity" and "humility" to "protect the coalition government that has done so much good to ordinary people in our country" and that "the wave that has dyed the autonomies blue and green does not reach the Government of Spain”.
Like other party comrades, Díaz's political career began in the 15M. In 2015 she became the general secretary of Podemos Zaragoza. Two years later she became the communication secretary of the party in Aragón and until now she has been the regional secretary of Podemos-Aragón.
Díaz entered the Cortes as a deputy for the first time in 2015, when his party stormed the institution with force with 14 seats. In 2019, she joined the Government of Aragon in the quadripartite led by the socialist Javier Lambán, which also included the Aragonese Party and Chunta Aragonesista.
In his hands fell the Ministry of Science, University and Knowledge Society, a management that he defended in his statement today. "I know that I leave a better Aragon than the one I found when I entered politics and that has been thanks to many people who have left their skin and who I carry in my heart," he said.
