Podemos redoubles its pressure on the Government and sets conditions to maintain its support in Congress. “The people of our country, colleagues, have said enough. And if the people of our country have said enough, Podemos says enough too. We tell the Government from here, and I tell them very clearly, that if they want the support of Podemos, they are going to have to break commercial relations with Israel, lower rents by law and put an end to speculation,” warned the general secretary of the party, Ione Belarra, at the central event of the Autumn Uni.
With this phrase, the leader of Podemos has culminated the escalation in pressure against Pedro Sánchez’s Executive that the party has undertaken in recent weeks. This same Monday, they assured that they were not a partner of the Government and stated that the president knew what was happening in the Ministry of Transportation while the plot of the Koldo case was developing. Now, they set conditions to continue supporting him in Congress at a crucial moment, in full negotiations for the General State Budgets that will surely mark the viability of the legislature.
The party celebrates this weekend the Autumn Uni, an ideological forum that they usually take advantage of to mark the political strategy at the beginning of the course, which coincides with the tenth anniversary of the party’s first citizen assembly, Vistalegre I. Between Saturday and On Sunday, they will hold fifteen tables on current affairs at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, with international guests such as the former British Labor leader and deputy Jeremy Corbyn or the MEP and Palestinian activist Rima Hassan, who have participated in the central event.
In that event, in which the main faces of the party, Irene Montero, Isa Serra and Pablo Fernández, also participated, Podemos has focused its political action on two main issues: the housing issue and the genocide in Israel. “We are seeing the worst genocide in a century. A few days ago they were burning alive people sheltered in a hospital under cloth. What difference is there between that and burning people in gas chambers like the Nazis did, burning the Jews, the Nazis, people who thought like us,” Belarra said. “The only difference is that this time no one could say they didn’t know,” he added.
“The PP and the PSOE say that they are very different but they are both saying that the genocidaires, the criminals, are a friendly State. Both are supporting the complicity of Europe, military, economic, political, and media, with the genocidaires, with the criminals, with the murderers. […] “Spain is a country that is capable of breaking diplomatic relations with Milei for an insult to President Sánchez, which are very well broken with that fascist, but is not capable of breaking those diplomatic and commercial relations with the State of Israel,” he had Montero said minutes earlier during his speech.
After this reflection, Belarra has asked the Government to break relations with the country of Benjamin Netanyahu. That is the first condition that he has put on the table to continue supporting Sánchez in Congress. The second is housing, after a few weeks in which the skyrocketing price of rent has taken over public discourse.
“The housing mobilizations mark a before and after,” predicted Belarra, who has attributed the situation to the result of decades of policies of the PP and the PSOE, whom she has described as “authentic lackeys of the speculators.” “We have to get the houses out of business, off the market. The right to housing must be guaranteed as the human right that it is. Houses are for living. “The people have said enough and Podemos says enough,” the Podemos leader concluded.
“The power is proposing that the two-party system returns”
In her speech, Irene Montero took the opportunity to reinforce the thesis that the party has maintained since the summer and that it states that a return to the two-party system is brewing. “In Spain, the established power is proposing that the two-party system returns and erase with one blow these ten years of struggles,” he stated to then point out the points on which in his opinion both the PP and the PSOE agree, as in the Palestinian issue.
“Look how much we are doing that we continue to trade with the genocidaires. “We bring products that are manufactured in the territories illegally occupied by the genocidaires in Palestine, but we put a label on them so that you can decide if you buy products that are the result of an illegal occupation and that are bringing pain, injustice and murder,” he said. Montero criticized in a message addressed, although without naming him, to the Minister of Social Rights, Pablo Bustinduy. The minister, who is part of the Sumar quota, a few days ago told companies that import products from the Middle Eastern country that they should indicate it on their labels.
“The two sell to Black Rock, to those large investment funds, the public assets of the citizens. They are both in the institutions to defend the rentiers, never to defend the tenants, the families, the people who know that housing is a right and not an asset to speculate on,” he said. “It would be different to prohibit vulture funds from buying homes because homes are a business. Whoever does business with a right is a thief. Why don’t we lower housing prices by law? Why don’t we force these investment funds to put 50% of the houses they illicitly hoard for social rent? That would be different. And that would be effective,” he proposed below.
He has also taken the opportunity to criticize corruption, just after a few weeks in which the judicial siege on José Luis Ábalos has been tightening. “They say they are very different, but when they have positions of power they always have people willing to put their hand in the box. They always have militants, male and female colleagues, ready to put their hand in the box. And here you have people on this stage who were fighting to include the cap on rental prices, to have a good social shield while there were members of the Socialist Party, of the president of the Government’s party, putting the money in the box.” , he has reproached.
“Without pressure and without noise we have a reactionary and anti-democratic coup right ruling this country even if they do not govern. That is what Pedro Sánchez and his allies have achieved by governing without noise,” Montero concluded in another criticism of Sumar and Yolanda Díaz, whom he did not mention directly at any point in the speech.
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