2023-09-28 22:10:35
It was one of the photos of the day at Tuesday’s investiture session. The PSOE deputies, starting with Pedro Sánchez, get up from their seats, smile in a state of divine grace and applaud Óscar Puente like crazy after he spent forty minutes beating the PP as if there were no tomorrow. In the image by Kiko Huesca, Yolanda Díaz remains seated, with a sad face and looking into infinity.
If we place her on the Richter scale of discomfort, the leader of Sumar was at a very high point, bursting the seismograph. She did not seem to have liked at all the storm of swords that the former mayor of Valladolid had staged.
He couldn’t contain himself. At 4:42 p.m., an hour and a quarter after Puente began his speech punctuated by a shower of expletives from the seats of the Popular Party, Díaz translated his discomfort into two sentences on Twitter: “The show is a luxury that only the privileged can afford.” , those who do not need politics. Citizens cannot waste any more time.” Meanwhile, the socialists were delighted with the performance that the squire chosen by Sánchez had offered to spoil Feijóo’s party. They couldn’t contain themselves with joy.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo began his reply by saying that he did not want to participate “in the comedy club.” The truth is that he was stung, so much so that he continued talking about Puente’s attacks even in his response to Santiago Abascal. This is what shows have, like reality television. No one can stop talking about them, even if they have not seen them.
In a later photo, it is Díaz who rises smiling from the seat to congratulate Aina Vidal, from En Comú, while the socialists stand still and Sánchez half-heartedly applauds. In general, everyone applauds their own, although some images offer more readings than their participants would like.
The intervention of Sumar’s main spokesperson, Marta Lois, was the opposite of Puente’s. It wasn’t forceful at all, because that’s really not her style. She held up a photo of the La Moncloa Pacts only to affirm that it was from another time, something that is quite obvious. There were no women, it is true, nor were there any later in the first Government of Felipe González.
As is almost inevitable in the Sumar coalition, the investiture debate was also used in the disputes between the mother ship (which is also called Sumar) and the Podemos satellite, increasingly eager to set its own course. In Podemos they took note of Lois’s lack of forcefulness. Díaz had left them out of the investiture, reserving three places for Lois, Vidal and Enrique Santiago.
The IU leader came out like a rocket – he didn’t have much time – and showed a copy of an ABC cover from 2017 that said that Rajoy had offered an “amnesty” to Puigdemont if he called regional elections within the law after the referendum on 1 -EITHER. Much more effective when shaking.
The next day, Irene Montero was asked about the debate. She couldn’t hide how much she had liked Puente’s aggressiveness. She claimed the copyright of Podemos. “I think that the socialist party did what it had to do yesterday, and with some modifications it could have perfectly been a speech that Podemos would have made,” she said. She said in other words, what Lois’ speech was not.
Politics is also about passion, energy and even hitting your rival hard on certain fundamental issues. Even more so when what is at stake is the Government of the next four years. It is about convincing the voter that their investment – the ballot – will be administered with the intensity that each moment requires. But laws are not passed just by shouting from the stands. In this balance between substance and form, there are as many opinions as there are deputies.
“Politics is about talking about people’s lives. It’s not about noise, it’s not about forces or pressure,” the vice president said in July. But it is also about making noise so that you are heard, because otherwise no one will pay attention to you. “Without noise you work much better,” she said before about the negotiations within the coalition government. True, but without insisting, without some noise or pressure, Nadia Calviño would have remained so richly in her office tied to the argument that it was not advisable for her to raise the minimum wage so much or approve a housing law.
Yolanda Díaz had prepared a speech for Feijóo’s investiture. The PSOE counterprogrammed with the appearance of Puente. Those of the PP were not the only ones surprised. The move combined two objectives: attacking Feijóo harshly and ignoring an investiture with no chance of success. Crush it and ignore it at the same time. The latter with the inaction of Sánchez, who was content this time with applauding and having a good time.
Díaz was not able to take the stand and Sumar went somewhat unnoticed in a debate that must not be forgotten was not about a future left-wing government, but rather about Feijóo’s candidacy.
Beyond the relevance of a debate that will be forgotten as soon as the negotiations on Sánchez’s investiture progress, the issue provided more raw material for the permanent conflict between Sumar and Podemos. Ione Belarra’s party did not waste the opportunity to affirm that he feels marginalized and even to denounce Díaz’s “authoritarianism,” in the words of his spokesperson, Pablo Fernández.
Sumar is missing something, in this case as a coalition, for Alberto Garzón to demand an authentic “broad front” that brings together the contributions of all its members. And someone answer the question about what we talk about when we talk about Sumar within Sumar.
Juan Carlos Monedero, co-founder of Podemos, has warned in an article about the danger that the competition between Sumar, Podemos and Izquierda Unida will lead “all voters back to the PSOE, leaving the left of the socialists in a worse situation than the was at the time Izquierda Unida”.
Conflict is inherent to politics and is also reproduced within parties and coalitions. Monedero maintains that Sumar must agree to a democratic operation, which he believes does not exist now, that allows its members to participate and that not everything is reduced to the will of the leader, because that would not be a broad front. And with respect to Podemos, always in a state of boiling, he proposes that they reduce “the pitch of his anger” or they will end up looking like “that IU of Cayo Lara, angry and disconcerted by its limited audience.”
It doesn’t seem like that tuning fork is going to stop vibrating. Monedero cites a recent editorial from Canal Red, which he calls “unofficial spokesperson for Podemos”, which has already given its verdict to a point from which it is difficult to take a step back. The text shows his little interest in a new confluence of left-wing parties under current conditions: “For that (the idea of a broad front) it would be necessary to rebuild trust that is incompatible with the leadership of Yolanda Díaz.”
These are the things of the left, which is capable of fanning the fire of its internal discord even when the focus of attention is on the failed investiture of a right-wing candidate.
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