First it was the common Catalans and then Más Madrid. Some of the groups integrated into Sumar have demanded that the five Podemos deputies in Congress return their seats after breaking with their hitherto allies and joining the Mixed Group. The argument is that the splitters attended the elections under the umbrella of an acronym that they are now abandoning. Marta Lois, spokesperson for Yolanda Díaz’s parliamentary group, defended this Monday in an interview on TVE that the minutes of deputies of Ione Belarra and her colleagues “are part of Sumar”, although she did not expressly demand their return. The leadership of the Díaz platform avoids the term turncoat in public, although its leaders repeat in private: “This is textbook turncoatism.” Those accused deny it, offended.
Defining what a turncoat is often leads to byzantine discussions between parties, depending on how things go for them. In 2021, without going any further, Pablo Casado’s PP indignantly abandoned the Anti-Transfuguism Pact signed by the main political forces in 1998. A commission of experts had declared the Ciudadanos deputies in Murcia who joined the popular ranks after refusing to vote. to support a motion of censure against the PP regional government agreed by Inés Arrimadas’ party with the PSOE. Nor did the two UPN deputies who were expelled in 2022 after disobeying the order to support the Government’s labor reform ever accept the name of turncoats.
But beyond what each one politically interprets as transfuguism, for the purposes of the pact Its definition does not offer many doubts: “Turnaways are understood to be local, regional and state representatives who, betraying the political subject (political parties, coalitions or groups of voters) that presented them to the corresponding elections, have abandoned it, have been expelled or “deviate from the criteria established by their competent bodies.” In case it is not clear, the pact ultimately leaves the ability to declare someone as a turncoat in the hands of the political force that suffers the desertions: “When doubts arise about which people have committed transfuguism, it will be the political subject that has presented them and/or the party that proposed them (…) who will clarify in writing who has abandoned the formation, have been expelled or have deviated from their discipline, for the purposes of their classification as turncoats.”
In the case of the breakup of Podemos, therefore, its deputies could be declared absconders if requested by Sumar, who is not part of the Pact, but one of its members, IU, is. According to the regulations of that agreement, the splinter members would suffer severe restrictions to be able to act as a political group in Congress. Sumar, however, does not seem like he will take that path. Lois hinted this Thursday that her party does not want to fuel the confrontation further: “People are very tired of the harsh tones and personal disqualifications.”
In the previous legislature, the Unidas Podemos group suffered the defection of deputy Meri Pita, who also went to the Mixed Group. These days, some statements from the Podemos leader Irene Montero have been recovered on social networks, who denounced: “The consistent thing, when a person is elected on an electoral list and leaves the parliamentary group, is to leave the record.”
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Pablo Iglesias, founder of Podemos, and his previous parliamentary spokesperson, Pablo Echenique, have worked hard to refute that the current case is comparable to that of Pita. Accusing Podemos of transfuguismo is “very serious”, Iglesias complained on TV3. “Transfuguism is when a deputy or a series of deputies leave their party. But a collective decision of a party… To affirm that is to lie,” she said. churches and Echenique They brandished identical examples of political formations that came together in an electoral coalition and then separated when parliaments were formed. They cited, among others, the antecedents of Nueva Canarias with the Canary Coalition or UPN when it participated in alliance with PP and Cs in Navarra Suma. These cases are not exactly the same as Podemos. In those cited by Iglesias and Echenique, the subsequent separation had been agreed in advance, while Podemos committed in writing to remain in Sumar.
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