The Minister of Equality makes ugly the “doubts” in Sumar about an agreement with Podemos
Podemos continues its campaign to hold Yolanda Díaz responsible for the lack of agreement. After several days warning of her “concern” about the lack of will to agree on the Sumar candidate, the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, has gone further this Wednesday, and has equated the second vice president of the Government with Iñigo Errejón , who left Podemos in 2019 to found Más Madrid.
In an interview in ‘Radiocable’, Montero has insisted on criticize that Díaz “is not fully committed to unity” and has pointed to the alleged pressures so that he does not agree with Podemos. “We are concerned that Yolanda may be having doubts about it,” the leader began.
“There were voices four years ago that told Íñigo Errejón to shoot without Podemos, to present himself without Podemos,” warns Irene Montero
At this point, Montero has highlighted that “We have already lived this because there were voices four years ago that They told Íñigo Errejón to shoot without Podemosthat he presented himself without Podemos”.
Until 2017 Errejón was number two in Podemos, but after losing the primaries he withdrew from national politics to be the party’s candidate for the Community of Madrid in the 2019 elections. Four months before the elections, the leader launched Más Madrid With Manuela Carmena to go to the elections, alleging that the purple party did not give him enough political autonomy to campaign.
Since then Errejón has been considered a traitor within the purple rows, and his figure continues to generate strong rejection in the party leadership. The exhibition of harmony between Yolanda Díaz and Errejón in recent weeks has already stung Podemos, as have the images from this Sunday, in the electoral presentation of Sumar, which was attended by both the leader of Más País and the candidates of Más Madrid, Monica Garcia and rita master.
In her interview, Irene Montero has once again insisted on her demand for open primaries for the vice president to reach an agreement. This request, and her threat not to attend the event this Sunday, was what led them to be the only party absent from the event.
The Minister for Equality has once again defended the “leading role that we can has to have in the next electoral cycle” and has ensured that to resolve the “doubts” of “space partners” on this point, this system of primaries must be held. A system that allows Podemos to assert the great capacity of mobilization from their bases to impose themselves against the rest of the forces.