The general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has announced on the morning of this Tuesday that will opt for re -election again In the fifth citizen assembly of the party, as this newspaper already advanced, which will start in March and culminate on April 11 and 12.
Belarra has communicated its decision through a video posted on social networks, one day after the executive agreed to deploy her congress process with the aim of preparing for any sceneRio, including the “plausible” option of electoral advance before the “weakness” of the government.
The current general secretary has assured that Podemos is a “essential” political project and Spain needs a strong, autonomous left project“Not intervened by the PSOE” and with government aspirations. Belarra has insisted that the left must be strong, because if not “bipartisanship returns, and that means that the right governs.”
In this way, the future candidacy of Belarra also involves the commitment to A ROLES DISTRIBUTION IN Podemos, by way of bicephalyonce she postulates to command the party in the organic plane while the Eurodiputada and former minister of equality, Irene Montero, is erected as an electoral reference, as happened in the last European elections.
Will keep criticism of the Sánchez government
It will also mean, in case of being chosen again by the registration of the party, maintaining the very critical strategy with the current government, which recriminates lack of ambition and paralysis.
In fact, the dwellings from their passage to the mixed group after Break with adding their support condition In the main government measures to obtain counterparts, as happened, for example, in the Judicial Efficiency Law and in the face of the new General Budgets, where they have already shown their demands.
Another aspect that must be managed in case of re -election is the reopening of the debate of reissue the electoral unit of the alternative left, Once the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, has called for the candidacy of the past generals and formations such as IU have also claimed to form a single list for the next elections.
Assumed the leadership of the party after the march of Iglesias
Belarra, former Minister of Social Rights and current deputy in Congress, was elected in summer of 2021 as party leader at a key moment for the party, after the decision of the former secretary generatesl Pablo Iglesias to retire from institutional policy. To this relay the leader of Podemos has referred to in his video, saying that it was not easy to replace Iglesias, which he considers “one of the best politicians in the history of Spain.”
During the course of his current mandate at the head of Podemos he has had to deal with delicate moments for the organizationwhich suffered an electoral coup in the last regional elections (being as an extraparliamentary force in Madrid or Valencian Community), the clash with adding and the subsequent break in the Congress and its exit from the government.
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