Podemos asks for discretion about the meetings he is having with Yolanda Díaz for the general elections, but he does reveal a detail of those conversations that both parties currently describe as embryonic. This weekend, the secretary of Organization of the formation, Lilith Verstrynge, affirmed that the second vice president’s team has informed them that until the summer they will not sit down to negotiate the details of the candidacy. This Monday the spokesman Pablo Fernández has considered that they “respect” that deadline and the times of the Minister of Labor to finish shaping her project, but he has warned that “time is pressing.”
“We have been told that a definitive negotiation will not take place until the summer,” Fernández reiterated at a press conference this Monday when asked about some statements by Díaz last week in which he revealed that Sumar, the platform with which he wants to bring together the entire space to the left of the PSOE, he is talking to all political formations, “including Podemos”. These talks began in recent weeks but are still in their infancy, as recognized by Ione Belarra’s party, which is why they consider that if the deadline chosen to begin negotiating the details of a future coalition they will respect it but warning that the deadlines should speed up, as the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, said this Thursday.
Fernández has insisted this Monday that they respect the times of the vice president. “It has to be Yolanda who takes the step, the one who says if she is going to be the candidate of all, of Podemos, of Unidas Podemos, and that question is Yolanda who has to answer it,” added the co-spokesperson for the formation that He has added something that he has also been asking Díaz for Podemos for weeks: to get involved in the campaigns of the Podemos and UP candidates in the municipal and regional elections.
“In what we are focused on preparing the regional elections that are fundamental in the future of Podemos. We would like Yolanda to campaign, because these elections are crucial in a state like Spain and part of the result of the general elections will be conditioned by that of the municipal ones. We would like Yolanda to campaign for the candidacies of Unidas Podemos”, Fernández claimed, also in line with what Verstrynge asked him this Saturday in Seville, where the formation held its interparliamentary sessions with the representatives of Podemos in the different chambers and town halls. of all country.
Podemos asks the PSOE not to agree with the “looters” who bring up food
The formation of Belarra insists on the other hand that the Government has to act to lower the prices of the food basket and has once again transferred to the PSOE its proposal to subsidize a selection of basic products by 14.4%, as was done with fuel, so that prices return to the levels before the start of the war in Ukraine. For this reason, they consider that the meeting that Luis Planas is going to hold this Monday with representatives of the large supermarkets is going to be a failure.
“You cannot agree with those who raise prices,” Fernández said this Monday. “They are the problem, they are the ones who are raising prices. They don’t go up alone. They are true representatives of ruthless capitalism. The solution cannot be to agree with the speculators”, has maintained the co-spokesman of the formation.
Fernández has advanced that his government partner has not sent them any response directly on the proposal that they have sent to lower the shopping basket, but has referred to the recent statements by the Minister of Economic Affairs, Nadia Calviño, in the that he ruled out were to accept a measure like that.
“Core inflation remains very high. This affects the food in the shopping cart, which is increasing by more than 30%. Today Minister Planas will meet with the food employers, we do not expect anything from that meeting because the solution is not to agree with the speculators. The solution is market intervention, bumping into the shopping cart”, has the spokesperson. Podemos proposed at the beginning of the year, in fact, a direct intervention of the market to lower the price of these products, a demand that they have moderated in the face of the silence of the socialists and that they have replaced with this alternative of the bonus that they hoped their partner would see better eyes.
In any case, they insist that the measure cannot be reached by agreement. “The PSOE has to understand that you cannot please ask the looters, savage capitalism, to stop earning so much money, because they will want to earn more and more money,” he has settled.
