Madrid (EFE) of the PSOE.
“I think it’s still possible,” Belarra said in an interview on RNE, in which she ruled out the departure of the Executive of the Podemos ministers, if there was finally no agreement with the second vice president of the Government and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Diaz.
The leader of Podemos has expressed her concern that Díaz “is not clearly committed to unity” and does not consider it a failure to go separately to the elections. She has warned that “personalist” projects do not respond well to the demands of citizens, because they “disconnect” from the bases.
An attitude that he has attributed to the fact that the PSOE does not want an “uncomfortable” partner like the purple ones to his left, since there are media related to the Socialists that tell him that “he can shoot alone, that he does not need Podemos.”
“That ball is in your court”
“Podemos has already said that he wants his candidate for the general elections to be Yolanda Díaz, now it is Yolanda Díaz who has to clarify if she wants to be the candidate of the unit (…). That ball is in his roof ”, she has had an impact.
But the most worrying thing for the also Minister of Social Rights is that, within her own political space, there are those who want Podemos to play a “secondary role” with respect to the current legislature or even “disappear”, because “the problem is that we exist”.
In his opinion, the role of Podemos can only be settled in open primaries. In this way, it would be decided which would be the best team for the task that lies ahead and that it should be “trying to be the majority partner of the Government.”
“I am not satisfied just with revalidating the coalition government, it seems to me that it is important to aspire to be the first force,” said Belarra, who has insisted that the agreement with Sumar is essential to achieve that aspiration and what he sees ” It is essential” that Yolanda Díaz and the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, be on the team.
Campaign for We Can
Asked about Díaz’s implicit support for Más Madrid or Compromís, she has stressed that she would like the leader of Sumar to campaign for the candidates of Unidas Podemos, which is “the space through which she stood for the elections.”
“Flattery seems very good to me (…), but I would have liked him to use that influence to ask Compromí and Más Madrid for unity for the municipal and regional elections,” he warned.
On the pending issues of the legislature, he has pointed out the housing law, before which the PSOE is in a “slightly indolent attitude” and “very electoral, and the “democratization” of RTVE.
