The former vice president of the Government and former leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, has this Sunday against the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, in full pulse of the purple party against the platform that the also Minister of Labor configured. Very harsh words from Iglesias against his former partner. He accuses her of wanting to end Podemos and demands respect from her. All without mentioning her but with obvious references to the vice president.
“Very soon there will be municipal and regional elections and some think that it is a magnificent opportunity for Podemos to have a bad result and for IU to disappear and leave the entire field to a left that is not persecuted by the sewers. The level of ingenuity of such thinking is blushing, whoever thinks that a left-wing candidacy can do well in the general elections if Podemos does poorly in the regional elections is stupid”, Iglesias snapped at the closing of the 'Autumn University '.
Iglesias has recalled that it was he who opted for Díaz to be the candidate and vice president in his place, but he has sent him a very clear warning: "Podemos has to bet on converging in Sumar in the general elections, but Podemos must be respected... ¡Woe to the one who disrespects the militancy of Podemos!
For his part, Juan Carlos Monedero, co-founder of the party and director of the 'Republic and Democracy Institute', the laboratory of ideas of Podemos, has also accused Díaz of "giving in" to the media and economic powers and also to the right and the PSOE just to win more votes.
"If someone thinks that giving in to ideas to try to please those who are not going to vote for us, they are wrong," said Monedero. If someone thinks that by giving in to the pressures of power, they are in the war, in the general council of the judiciary, in the fight against banks, electricity and real estate, in the defense of our own when lawfare attacks us, they are wrong.
Monedero has assured that they will contribute to the unit, but he has not been short in his messages to Díaz. Also without naming her. “We have always wanted to add and we have fought for transversality and centrality. But we have always said that centrality is not the center. And if someone thinks that centrality is the center, that it is increasingly to the right, they are wrong.
The leaders of Podemos insist on referring to Sumar as a political alias, but treat them face to face. But not as a brand in which to dilute yourself and lose weight. It is precisely this conception that Vice President Díaz defends, who affirms that Podemos and the rest of the parties be integrated into Sumar, even if that means abandoning its acronym.
In recent months, the discomfort in Podemos has warned every time that Díaz said that the parties should not be protagonists. "Of course the parties are necessary, there is no more reactionary speech than the one that says that the problem is the parties," Iglesias said.
“Whoever wants to lead everything that does not represent the old parties has to be up to the challenges and respect the political force that has done the most from the left in recent Spain. Who does not respect Podemos, (...) cannot excite those who were moved by the Podemos project and is wrong, ”Monedero has said before.
The 'Autumn University' of Podemos began on Friday at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and ends today at the Coliseum Theater, on Gran Vía. Podemos seeks to build political muscle and claim as the main party to the left of the PSOE in full pulse buried with Yolanda Díaz and also the United Left.
Participating in the closing ceremony were former Vice President Iglesias; Purse; the Minister of Equality and number behind the party, Irene Montero, as well as international leaders of the left classified in Podemos. At the Coliseum Theater, 1.250 supporters have listened to Iglesias, last speech. By far the event of the weekend with more attendees.
