Barcelona (EFE) Add.
For there to be options for having “a democratic government in the Spanish State” after the general elections on July 23, Iglesias stressed in statements to TV3, “it is absolutely essential that there be an agreement between Sumar and Podemos.”
However, he has warned, “it seems that there are political actors who are more interested in destroying Podemos than in reaching an agreement.” According to Iglesias, “there are three territories where the problem is in the negotiations at the moment: Madrid, the Valencian Country and Catalonia.”
“There are three political actors who understand that in those territories they are the only actor that has to represent that electoral political space of Sumar,” denounced Iglesias, who considers the attitude of the commons, Compromís and Más Madrid “clumsy”.
Ask to think of a “higher” goal
For example, “Compromís has openly said that they do not want to join Sumar”, but in any case they are open to a coalition agreement maintaining their acronym and “nothing with Podemos”, while “Más Madrid has said the same”.
In Catalonia, under the leadership of Ada Colau, the commons “have made an approach in which they understand that Podemos would not add anything in a confluence.”
“I think that these three organizations should put an objective ahead of the legitimate objective of making Podemos no longer exist,” he remarked.
For Iglesias, the “superior” objective in these elections is that “there can be a confluence agreement among all, because it is a condition of possibility so that the PP does not govern with Vox in the Spanish State.”
“Leaving Podemos out is opening the doors to a right-wing government,” he warned.
Asking Irene Montero to step aside is crossing “all the red lines”
Iglesias has also deplored that, from sectors of the left, some “buy the story” of the right and demand that Minister Irene Montero step aside as a possible candidate for a confluence to facilitate an agreement.
“In Podemos, it is the registered Podemos who decide who is in charge of the party and who are its representatives,” stressed Iglesias, who considers that whoever tries to interfere in this way from outside is crossing “all the red lines of respect” .
In his opinion, “whoever vetoes a negotiation does not want to reach an agreement.”