2023-12-12 04:21:06
The decision of the state leadership of Podemos to leave Sumar in the Congress of Deputies has ended up blowing up the party itself. Madrid is the first enclave of the punishment and it is not ruled out that in the coming days there will be more resignations that end up putting the team on the ropes regarding its roadmap determined to break all bridges with Yolanda Díaz.
Last week it was the leader of Podemos in the Community of Madrid, Jesús Santos, who broke with the leadership, resigning from all his positions in the party due to the drift of the formation and the “incomprehensible clash” with Sumar. Now, the trickle of resignations turns his departure into a crisis as there are two new departures in the capital. Roberto Sotomayor, who will run in the municipal elections on March 28 for Unidas Podemos, along with the former spokesperson for Podemos in the Madrid Assembly, Carolina Alonso. Both use very similar terms to confront Ione Belarra’s direction and show their resounding rejection of the direction set.
Both abandon their positions of organic responsibility in the formation and make the decision after the purple ones broke with Sumar and moved to the Mixed Group. The decision, as they complain, was not made in the State Citizen Council, nor was it communicated, nor was it submitted to the opinion of the party’s rank and file. All these criticisms are reflected in his resignation letters. «No important decisions are no longer consulted. It is incomprehensible that the members of a management body found out about this news from Canal Red beforehand and that those previously registered were not consulted with a clear question,” in the words of former athlete Roberto Sotomayor. He also denounces that the decision to break with Sumar represents “another step in a strategy that has renounced the territories and the construction of a broad front.”
Sotomayor explains the reasons for the party’s drift in a letter in which she criticizes the 28M campaign, and in which she asks “more than ever to consolidate a municipalist project in Madrid.” He also argues that Podemos’s renunciation of municipalism was reflected in the decision “not to attend the Magariños event.” For him, a “key” date during the last municipal elections. “The decision of the state leadership not to attend despite the fact that the candidates for the Community and the city of Madrid, together with Jesús Santos, asked to be there, endangered nothing less than the future of our organization in the region,” he asserts. He criticizes that “the worst possible strategy” was chosen. He also denounces that “no one today” has assumed their political responsibilities for the results, except the candidates who “have suffered the most absolute invisibility and inconsideration of their leaders.”
The reproaches of the former spokesperson in the Madrid Assembly, Carolina Alonso, are similar. She calls it a “big mistake” not to attend the presentation of Yolanda Díaz’s candidacy and analyzes that this “took its toll electorally.” “It is evident that it is a failure of the space as a whole and that it is also done without prior political debate in the State Citizen Council.” As she did before, she censures that she found out about the decision through Pablo Iglesias.
The party, however, completely minimizes the consequences of the crisis and reduces the scope of the crisis to “three specific and specific cases.” In fact, sources from the purple party refuse, for the moment, to convene a State Citizen Council – the highest leadership body in the party – to explain to their officials both the departure of Podemos from the Mixed Group and its roadmap. The party had approved new guidelines in November with the support of 30,000 registered members, but, however, this document did not give the leadership the power to leave Sumar. It was something that, according to party sources, was not contemplated at the beginning and that was taken imminently last week after Sumar’s refusal to allow Ione Belarra to participate in the plenary session to reply to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares for the crisis between Israel and Gaza. Then, the purple ones denounced the impossibility of doing politics within Sumar and hence their departure to the Mixed Group.
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