Podemos and IU reproach Yolanda Díaz for her approach to the Greens: "We need ideological clarity"
Eight months before the European elections, another issue emerges that generates tensions within Sumar's political space. Who are your priority allies and your reference in Europe? The question, when Unidas Podemos led, was the parliamentary group The Left-GUE (La Izquierda), however, the push of the Catalan ecosocialists and Más Madrid within the coalition now places Sumar between two waters: that of the Greens and that of The Left.
This repositioning of Sumar on the European board and the approach that Yolanda Díaz is carrying out towards the Greens has unleashed the first public reprimands from Podemos and IU, which within the framework of a conference organized by The Left-GUE in Congress have claimed the need for a combative and recognizable left.
Without mentioning Díaz at any time, the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has sent him several highly charged critical messages. “We are very clear that our political reference in Europe is The Left,” he stated.. To then finish by warning that “ideological clarity” is needed to “stop the right.”
“We have to be able to build a political space that clearly looks to the left and that is what Podemos can contribute.. “We have many defects and we will make many mistakes, but we are a political force that does not put itself in profile,” he said.
The criticism of Díaz with this matter culminates a path previously taken by Pablo Iglesias from his online platform in which he attacked Sumar for his approach to the Greens and against those allies in particular for their political positions, especially in Germany, where he forms part of the coalition government. And the second vice president of the Government participated in the conclave that the European Greens recently held in Madrid. Not in vain, Sumar's spokesperson, Ernest Urtasun, is one of its main figures in the European Parliament, where he serves as vice president of the group.
Belarra has warned that the right-wing parties are “very clear” about their project and has called for the creation of “strong alliances” because the parties of The Left-GUE suffer “very similar attacks.”
At the end of the meeting in which Belarra participated, Podemos deputy Javier Sánchez Serna complemented his leader by emphasizing that Podemos is taking care of these alliances on the Left “in the face of the advance of the extreme right and also in the face of a two-party system that , with the help of the Greens, for example, has ensured that we have as commissioner against climate change a former employee of Shell, one of the biggest polluters in the world.
On the other hand, IU has also left important messages during the intervention of its Secretary of Organization, Ismael González, who wanted to join Belarra to demand a left “that fights the ideological and cultural battle” and that “does not get scared.” for example, when defending the people of Palestine.
“We need to take care of the organizations that make up the European left,” claimed the number three of IU, who added that it is important for The Left-GUE to work for the electoral event, where it is still not clear how Sumar will work.
In his speech, he left a warning about the relevance of the organizations at a time when IU is still angry about how the distribution of power has been resolved within the Sumar coalition in Congress, in which they have been left without a spokesperson. attached, and in which he has been urging to “democratize” decision-making.
“Although some sometimes have good electoral machinery and some better organizations, it is not always enough to endure what lies ahead.. That is why we need more organization, more care for each other and more contact with the people we claim to represent in the institutions,” he stressed.
Likewise, he has said that he is not only here “so that some can be MEPs”, but to combat the neoliberal “project of hostility” that is sweeping Europe.