Valencia (EFE) neoliberal policies”, which would entail “a democratic involution”.
Lima points out in an interview with the EFE Agency that they are “the decisive force for the balance to tip”, since if they do not obtain representation in the Consistory, the right will govern again “and will destroy public services”, and defends that they are “the key” for a new left-wing government with a “third leg”.
Promote a ‘sleepy’ City Council
After having passed through the Senate (2015-2019) and Les Corts (2019-2023), Lima considers that its “natural space” is now the Valencia City Council -in which Podem has not had representation this legislature-, an institution that in his opinion he should recover the closeness with the neighbors and that they be the ones who decide on his needs.
“When we enter, the first thing is going to be to give a boost, because it seems that they are asleep,” says the leader of Podem about the municipal management of these four years, while comparing the mayor, Joan Ribó (Compromís), with “a orchestra conductor who has not managed to tune it, each instrument has its own rhythm”.
He also believes that the deputy mayor and head of Urban Planning, Sandra Gómez (PSPV-PSOE), “has not done anything in housing policy”, while touristification is “very worrying”, the rental price is increasing, and there is a lack of rehabilitation and “take care” of the neighborhoods and those who inhabit them.
In Lima’s opinion, the housing policies carried out at the regional level by the second vice president of the Consell, Héctor Illueca, must be transferred to the Valencia City Council, which in his opinion are “a benchmark”, and he insists that for this It is “urgent” that Podem have representation in the ‘cap i casal’.
The main ambition of the Podem de Lima
To the question of how many councilors they aspire to achieve in Valencia, he answers that “the main ambition” is to enter the Consistory and make a transversal coalition government that has a “third leg”, where they can discuss issues such as health, and for this reason they do not talk about the number of councilors or councilors, because they do not look for “chairs or positions”.
“We are capable of making courageous and necessary policies, mainly with housing,” says Lima, who points out that Valencia needs to remunicipalize its services, with direct public management of cleaning, garbage or home help, and not for example ” Let them invent a new neighborhood, like Turianova”.
Look the mighty in the face
The Podem candidate claims that they have shown that their “legs have not trembled” when looking “in the face of the powerful”, who do not put “red carpets”, but “red lines”, and admits that they have their own way of doing politics that “does not like” because they say “the truth”.
“We banks owe nothing, we don’t owe anything to anyone, our hands are very clean,” says Lima, who defends that the city model has to be designed by the citizens, who must pronounce on issues such as the expansion of the port, and not “the powerful, the builders or Mr. Boluda”.
More representation in Les Corts
In an autonomous key, the also trustee of Podem in Les Corts affirms that in the 28M elections they aspire to grow in parliamentary representation, since they consider that the management that Illueca has carried out in the housing area has been “marvelous” and that experience is a endorsement for what they can do in a third Botanic.
He affirms that he is not concerned that Podem does not reach the 5% of the votes that allows it to have representation in Les Corts, but that what worries him is that his political project reaches the people, and about the debate to modify the electoral law and lower That bar at 3% considers that it is no longer the time and that it must be left for the next legislature.
Regarding the negotiations with Esquerra Unida to reissue the electoral coalition, she is convinced that an agreement will be reached and points out that a deadline has not been set to conclude the negotiations, but that they are “dialogue calmly.”
Lima finally points out that the first legislature in which Podem has been part of the Valencian Government leaves a “bittersweet taste” for him, since he would have liked everything to have been achieved in a “more agile” way, and at the internal level of the party he affirms that they are ” at the best moment” after having integrated people who left, such as Antonio Montiel.