Tomé questions the Budget | The coordination meeting between the party and the candidacy ends in “verbal attacks”, according to the sector that organically controls the purple formation | The head of the list raises a coordination commission
The purple formation is going through delicate moments, close to a breakup. After the candidacy of Covadonga Tomebacked by leaders sanctioned by the formation, such as the former secretary general Daniel Ripaobtained a majority in the primaries, it has not been possible to establish bridges between the sector that controls the organic direction and the one that pilots the regional candidacy.
A turning point occurred this Monday, when the Coordination Council of Podemos Asturies issued a statement in which “expresses its concern and astonishment at the attitude of the candidate & rdquor;Covadonga Tome.
Everything has been unleashed after the coordination meeting that was held this morning. On one side of the table sat alba gonzalez, Rafael Palacios, Ana Taboada Y Olaya Suarez; the other, Covadonga Tome, Xune Elipe Y Laura Tuero. The leadership of Podemos claims to have verified “continued contempt for the bodies and democratic norms that govern the police action of Podemos& rdquor ;. Moreover, in the statement the management denounces “unacceptable verbal aggressions proffered against several of the people who make it up & rdquor ;.
Before the meeting, Covadonga Tomé had offered some statements in which he questioned, in the current state, the Budget of the Government of the Principality, with which the spokesman for the parliamentary group, Rafa Palacios, saw lines of understanding. Tomé also asked the party leadership to assume the result of the primaries that gave him the victory to form the regional list.
On the other hand, the account of the party leadership ensures that, although “it recognized Tomé’s victory in the primaries from the outset & rdquor;, at all times “it extended its hand to work together & rdquor ;. But according to the party leaders “by Tomé and his environment & rdquor; it is not recognized that it was the other sector that won the victory in the general secretariat and government bodies.
The coordinator assures that it holds “unequivocally & rdquor; the powers to determine “the political orientation, the elaboration of the program, the relationship with other political forces or the political action in the councils & rdquor ;. But at the meeting in which a common roadmap was to be established, the coordinators “have been surprised by their frontal and intransigent rejection of the joint work proposal presented today”.
The statement states that “a prudential silence has been maintained & rdquor; by the leadership of Podemos, “while the candidate ignored her address” and carried out “unilateral actions & rdquor; such as organizing acts in councils “ignoring the municipal addresses & rdquor;, promoting “the interference of people sanctioned for their attacks on Podemos & rdquor; or carry out statements “repeatedly contravening the political line of the party & rdquor ;.
“On the part of Tomé and his entourage, the an irresponsible attitude of contempt and aggressiveness towards their peers and no desire for cooperative work & rdquor ;, assures the management of the pratido, which urges the candidate to “abandon negligence in her organic participation & rdquor; and to stop “usurping functions & rdquor; and exercise “political violence towards the leadership of Podemos & rdquor ;.
“We hope that the entire organization can focus on what people demand of us and not on the particular interests of certain people & rdquor ;, the statement concludes.
After the statement from the leadership of Podemos, Tomé proposed “the implementation of a joint work team, made up equally of all the sensibilities of Podemos.” “It is essential that the opinion of the candidate for Podemos be taken into account,” said Tomé, who called for “openness, dialogue and work” and assured that “in politics, everything has a solution.”
For Covadonga Tomé, the meeting was held in a “serious but always respectful tone.” And she was confident that the proposal transferred to Alba González, secretary of Organization of the purples, will be studied and a solution will be reached, “instead of feeding communiqués that only provoke applause from our political rivals and that mistakenly transmit the sensation that we have no proposals to tell the public”.
“Internal fights represent the worst of politics, not the best,” Tomé said.