Both Sumar and the purple party already assume that they will compete separately in the European elections next June
Can mark distances with Add, also at European level. Less than eight months before the European Parliament elections, the purples already They prepare the ground to attend the event alone and they use the conflict between Israel and Palestine as a lever to further highlight the distances with Yolanda Diaz.
The government negotiations They are presented as a turning point in the already contaminated relations between Sumar and Podemos. The purple ones will foreseeably be left out of the Council of Ministers despite insistently demanding in recent months that Irene Montero repeats as head of Equality.
This grievance would carry arguments to the purples to stage their breakup facing future electoral events, with an eye on the European elections of June 9, whose electoral system of single constituency It would favor obtaining a seat, with Montero herself as one of the leaders who has the most strength to lead the list.
After a week in which we can has exhibited its own roadmap regarding Sumar in the Middle East conflict, presenting its own proposals and disdaining those of Yolanda Díaztraining has also tried to highlight distances in the European Parliamentwhere this week a resolution condemning Hamas was voted on, which has divided the two European groups to which Podemos and Sumar belong.
Ernest Urtasun at the Sumar press conference.
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The purple ones are part of the group The Left in the European Chamber, while Sumar has leaders in both that same group of the European left (Sira Regofrom IU) as in The Greenswhere is it located Ernest Urtasun, spokesperson for Sumar. The former opposed the resolution approved on Thursday, which passed by a large majority -de 545 votes cast, 500 in favor, 21 against and 24 abstentions. The European left rejected the condemnation of Hamas after having refused to participate in the difficult negotiations of the text, which lasted until the previous morning. The environmentalists, on the other hand, voted mostly in favor.
Division in the greens
The Greens had negotiated the resolution, which reflected the resounding condemnation of Hamas and the request for dissolutionin addition to including at the last minute the call to a “humanitarian pause”after some groups put obstacles in their way to demand a “ceasefire”, as environmentalists were requesting.
The result was that the green group split, with the yes out of 58 MEPs, three abstentions and only three voted againstamong whom was Sumar’s spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, who during his speech in the European Parliament condemned Hamas but justified his rejection of the condemnation resolution by not having included the ceasefire.
This circumstance was not an obstacle for Podemos to throw this vote at Yolanda Díaz, claiming her “international ideological clarity” in the face of Sumar’s hesitations. The person in charge of bringing the division to the European level was the purple MEP Idoia Villanuevawho intervened on Canal Red on Friday to reproach Díaz for the position of Los Verdes.
“You have to clarify”
“Add everyone knows what it is a party of Yolanda Díaz that is referenced in the European Green party“, began the leader, who called on the acting second vice president to clarify her positions at the European level. “Yesterday we saw the greens vote for this resolution, which only one year ago whitewashing of Israel’s positions and refuse to vote on the ceasefire request,” Villanueva said.
” Podemos has international ideological clarityhe has had it since he was born,” he continued, before sending a direct message to Sumar. “AndHollanda Díaz will have to decide who is her European referencewhether the Greens or the European Left, because the positions in the European Parliament are totally different,” the MEP challenged. “It will have to be them those who clarify where they see themselves politically“.
Lilith Verstrynge, Ione Belarra and Idoia Villanueva, in the Podemos State Citizen Council.
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Sumar’s policy towards Podemos continues to be that of recent months, which consists of ignoring and repelling the pressures and reproaches of the purples, who on this occasion ask to choose between belonging to one parliamentary group or another. Although it is true that the marked ecological profile that Sumar seeks is more reflected in the European greens, in Díaz’s ranks they believe that the mixed formula to split into different groups and that the United Left can continue with the European Left.
Stage differences
This demand for clarity at the European level has come preceded by strong dissidence in domestic politics due to the Israeli conflict. Ione Belarra’s party has dedicated itself this week to staging its own positions regarding the situation in the Middle East, an issue that has served as a lever to mark distances and smooth the electoral rupture for the June elections.
The general secretary began with an “official statement” announced and subtitled in English where he demanded that Pedro Sánchez take the Israeli president, Benjamin Netanyahu, to the International Criminal Court. In a tour in different media, the leader has made an effort to raising maximum demands and disdaining Sumar’s proposalswhich had launched two parliamentary initiatives to ask EU member countries to suspend foreign trade with Israel.
“It’s very good to make statements, but at Podemos we are clear that the important thing is to do politics,” Belarra disfigured Díaz. “This is not about NLP, is to take Netanyahu to the International Court”he continued, directly questioning Sumar’s role in the Government negotiations: “What worries me most is that Sumar has lost a great capacity for influence of what Unidas Podemos had in the formation of the Government”,