Belarra advocates an « autonomous » left with evening criticism to add | Spain

Ione Belarra is surrounded by the hard nucleus of Podemos, with Irene Montero as the second most outstanding figure, for her candidacy for party managementwhich culminates the process of the V State Citizen Assembly on April 11 and 12. The current Secretary of Organization, Pablo Fernández, the Europarliamentary Isa Serra or the deputies Javier Sánchez Serna, Martina Velarde and Noemí Santana, as well as former Jemad Julio Rodríguez, and some regional coordinators repeat in the team. The list incorporates new profiles, such as trans activist and LGTBI, Mar Cambrollé; the Director of the Labor and Social Security Inspection between 2021 and 2024, Carmen Collado; or the anti -racist and communicator activist Guillermo Akapo. The current leader, who has no rival to the General Secretariat by not having obtained any other availes, has defended in the presentation of this Monday in Madrid Build alliances on the left to revalidate the coalition pact of July 23. In the first hour, former Vice President Pablo Iglesias had cooled the possibilities according to ensuring that he is « politically dead. »

Already without figures in weight such as the united parliamentary exporter Podemos Pablo Echenique, the former Secretary of State for Equality Ángela Rodríguez or the former deputy Rafa Mayoral, the candidacy recovers for Podemos to Dina Bousselham, exassora of Pablo Iglesias and currently a journalist of Channel Red, the medium of the first leader of the party. It also has other new faces: Franco Aijón, Antifascist activist and father of Javitxu Aijón, one of the six of Zaragoza currently in prison; Belén Habboob, teaching staff and researcher in training of the University of Granada, part of the movements advocated by justice and the release of Palestine; and Elena Bassin, Arab-American activist queer.

“It is essential to stand this candidacy to transform a transformative left In Spain that again shows that you can, that we must not bet on an unprecedented rearme ”and that, as Belarra pointed out in his speech, » will compromise the future of our children. « The deputy has insisted on the need to have that force » transformative, pacifist, proud of itself and autonomous to make decisions on the sidelines of social democracy. A left that not only defends its program, but has the capacity to carry it forward, ”he said.

« This is the moment of courage, » Montero said. “Cowardice, the Malmenorism And conformism are a red carpet for the right and the extreme right, ”said the former minister to refer to the courageous attitude of Belarra.“ This is not a time to think that politics is a walk, ”he has opposed to That another world is possible, ”he said.

The V Party Assembly, which culminates with two face -to -face days in Madrid, is finally organized a few months earlier than expected, with the intention of preparing Podemos before a « plausible » electoral advanceas the organization itself recognized in its announcement, stirring the ghost of an end of precipitate legislature.

Díaz’s group’s unit offer

On that idea, former Vice President Pablo Iglesias, who has marked distances by adding after calls to the unit from the Diaz party returned on Monday. The training approved in its conclave of the weekend a resolution that advocates for weaving alliances With the rest of the forces to the left of the PSOE, including that of Belarra. « It is very striking that the head that has sought to add this Sunday, » said Iglesias.

“The set of forces that we were able to build the coalition are called to understanding. This understanding must be given without a priorirespecting the plurality of identities and guaranteeing political autonomy as the basis for the construction of agreements, ”says the text. The political movement of the Sumar Movement also refers to the primaries as a method for the elaboration of lists and the Díaz own bridges with those of Belarra In his closing speech: « People do not want us to think the same (…) What people want is to walk together. »

Iglesias, in his role as Tertullian in RNE, has cooled in the first hour the possibilities of agreement: « add, politically, are dead. There are many parties with different electoral interests. A part will be integrated into the PSOE and then there will be another series of parties that can look for other types of agreements. But adding is not an umbrella that serves nothing. » In his opinion, after a « very complicated » era, now we can « do very well walking alone. » The former Vice President insists that the party offers “sharpness, and a congress with very clear leadership”, referring to Belarra and Montero. On the difficulties to reissue the government after the generals with the space to the left of the broken socialists, he asks the PSOE to « assume their responsibility » and accommodate that part of adding.

In that line, an editorial of Red newspaperalso of the former Secretary General of Podemos, refers to the coalition led by the vice president as « failed project. » « At the moment, nobody knows what the sad experiment will end and it is very likely that many sectors of what has been called these years to end in the PSOE, » he summarizes.