The consultation with the bases of the 'new Podemos' makes it difficult for Sumar to repeat the 23-J coalition
It's just one sentence, 41 words in total, but with deep strategic significance.. “Do you approve Podemos's new roadmap in which its autonomy is reinforced, its strengthening as an organization, and the articulation of pre-electoral agreements when these are useful and as long as the lists are configured through primaries and without vetoes?”
The question is directed at the bases of the purple formation and has a double objective: to relaunch the original brand of the party coined in its day under the leadership of Pablo Iglesias and to protect it from possible new pacts with Sumar. In other words, it is about avoiding a repetition of what happened on June 23, when he bowed to present himself in a diluted coalition on the platform of Yolanda Díaz, with candidacies hand-crafted by the vice president's team and accepting the sacrifice. of dropping Irene Montero, still acting Minister of Equality, whom they consider their “main asset.”
The party's militancy will be able to answer this question between today and tomorrow within an “organizational strengthening process” undertaken in September, which in the words of its general secretary, Ione Belarra, seeks to “recover a strong Podemos” and with “capacity.” to set the direction of the State” to “take democratic, feminist and environmental transformations further than anyone ever before”. The result will be known on Saturday within the framework of the Political Conference that will be held at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.
Until now, the bases have always endorsed all the issues that the management has raised, including that of the purchase in 2018 of the Galapagar villa for 615,000 euros from its then general secretary.. In this case, the consultation is carried out in the midst of a struggle with Sumar for the distribution of ministries in the face of the foreseeable reissue of a coalition government with the PSOE, in which the purple ones not only continue to publicly demand their share of power, but also put name and surname because they want Montero to keep the Equality portfolio.
To prepare the document that contains the strategic lines for the future of the party, “an exercise of effective participation unprecedented in recent history” has been carried out, according to Podemos.. In total, 5,900 activists have participated in person and directly, the text has been debated in thirty meetings at the regional level and in hundreds of meetings in their circles and 2,255 amendments have been collected, both individual and collective, of which almost 90% has been incorporated into the final text.
With this process, the formation that Belarra now directs tries to challenge Díaz for the lost hegemony within the space of the alternative left to the PSOE to recover a leading role.. The announcement of its implementation two months ago was already interpreted as a declaration of rebellion against playing a secondary role, as Sumar is offering in Congress, or being left out of the future bicolor Executive, as it is feared that it will happen. finally happen.
This new Podemos roadmap includes the commitment that “never” will the “return” to the “old political culture pre-15-M, of offices and leaders who have been in office for 30 years” be shared, Europa Press reports. They also refuse to deploy an “aristocratic notion” of the “government of the best” and are committed to maintaining their “hallmark” of encouraging consultation with their bases in the face of the “anti-participatory dynamics” that continue to “prevail.”