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Podemos’s candidate for the European elections and former Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, believes that appointing Yolanda Díaz in 2021 as leader of the political space to the left of the PSOE – a space then occupied by Podemos and which later led to Sumar – was a mistake. During an interview on the program Another approach broadcast on Cuatro on Wednesday night, asked if that was a “good choice,” Montero responded like this: “I think time has shown that it was not.”
The decision to designate Díaz as his successor was made and publicly announced by Pablo Iglesias, Montero’s romantic partner, on the same day he announced that he was resigning from his position as vice president of the Government, on March 15, 2021. Díaz, who was Minister of Labor, she was never formally elected as a position of Unidas Podemos, although from that moment on she served as leader of the space on the left of the PSOE; In July 2022 she launched the Sumar platform and with it she ran for the 2023 general elections, but until March of this year she was not officially proclaimed general coordinator. Iglesias himself has stated on several occasions in the last two years – while the relationship between Díaz and Podemos was deteriorating – that the decision to bet on her was a mistake.
Montero, who stopped being a minister after the 2023 general elections, maintains that she has already “turned the page” on her departure from the Government. Asked how she felt after Sumar decided not to include her on his lists in those elections, the Podemos leader assures that she has also turned the page on that, but admits that she felt “pain” when she saw that her former colleagues left her “stranded.” . “It is the message that is sent to society (…) The enemy is going to destroy you and those who are supposed to be your companions are going to leave you stranded,” she says.
The former minister believes that the Government wanted to leave her “alone” in the face of the problems that arose during the legislature in her department and the attacks received from the opposition, and that she only felt supported by her Podemos colleagues and the ministry team. And she has blamed Pedro Sánchez, who is “the one in charge”, for his departure from the Government. “It’s another thing that Yolanda agreed… But I think the president made the decision,” she added. According to Montero, Sánchez did not want to “assume the political cost of making feminist advances” and the proof is that, in his opinion, he “challenged” during the 23-J electoral campaign what was “the hallmark of the Government.” ”.
The socialist leader, said the now candidate for the European elections, chose that “being a feminist in the institution is the same as doing nothing,” while reproaching Podemos for having gone “too far” with a speech that “upset his friends.” Thus, Montero has also criticized that the PSOE tried to remove credibility from the laws promoted by Podemos en Igualdad. “They talked about the botched laws, about the girls in the ministry… Even when we promoted the laws, people sometimes told us with sarcasm: ‘that law is not going to be approved, the trans law “It’s not going to come out.”
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