Zaragoza, Apr 15 (EFE).- The former Vice President of the Government Pablo Iglesias has vindicated Podemos as an example of saying things that are prohibited from saying on almost all television and radio stations and when it is uncomfortable, and has defended his presence in the executive to to continue transforming the country, despite the “insults and neglect”.
This is what Iglesias said this Saturday in a talk on “The ideological dispute of the 21st century: Geopolitics, neoliberal crisis and democracy”, which was held at the Podemos Spring Festival in Zaragoza, which marks the start of the electoral pre-campaign of the purple formation.
The former leader of Podemos has accused most of the media of imposing on left-wing commentators “rules that cannot be broken to guarantee that nothing changes”, among which he has cited closing ranks with NATO.
According to Iglesias, “they want to kill Podemos because it has shown that some things can change”, which is why he has said that the purple formation must continue in the Government in the face of “the covers that invite the rupture” of the coalition.
In addition, he has assured that in politics “the importance of the things that are said have to do with the place where they are said”, as it is “from within the Government”: “it does not matter that a politician says that NATO is very bad, but it does have it if Belarra says so”, in reference to the Minister of Social Affairs.
The former Vice President of the Government also appreciated the agreement reached yesterday between the ERC Government and EH-Bidu on the Housing Law, with an “alliance that worries many sectors of power”, which “was the same one that made the Executive of coalition” and that made it possible to “include the PSOE in an agreement that they don’t like”.
According to the former leader of Podemos, the proof that the agreement reached on housing is not liked by the Socialists “is that the president of the real estate association is called Joan Clos, who was mayor of Barcelona for the PSC and minister of the PSOE”.