The pre-election video of Podemos: "We are the militant who is outraged when his ministers stand in profile with NATO"

Podemos is aware that the upcoming regional and municipal elections are crucial for its future, especially after confirming that an agreement with Sumar will be impossible before 28M. Under this logic, the formation led by Ione Belarra has released a promotional video this Tuesday to convene a great event in Zaragoza this weekend that will function as a trigger for the pre-campaign in which it vindicates its militants and leaders but in which Podemos He also took the opportunity to send some messages to Yolanda Díaz and the formations of the space that the second vice president is articulating. “Podemos is the militant who is outraged when he sees that his ministers put themselves in profile with NATO,” they say.

The main leaders of the party have shared the spot on their social networks on Tuesday, with the title #TúQueNoTeCallas, to summon the militancy next Saturday to an act in the Aragonese capital, in the middle of the Spring Festival, the meeting that Podemos celebrates every year on these dates with concerts, talks and different political events. “We can is people like #TúQueNoTeCallas although it is difficult. This Saturday we will all see each other in Zaragoza”, Belarra wrote on Twitter.

The video, narrated by the act and film director Daniel Guzmán, has as its leitmotiv the leitmotiv with which the party has guided its public interventions in recent weeks: Podemos is the only party that has the courage to face certain decisions, to say what others do not say, to achieve progress that others do not dare to achieve. The voiceover, covered by images of the members of Podemos, of social protests, of the party leaders, appeals to that militancy that shares those same values ​​and on which the party leaders rely to defend their political positions. “This is a message for you that you do not shut up, that you do not have any position (…); that you never put yourself in profile in a political discussion ”, the spot begins.

“We can is Ione Belarra, saying that Juan Roig is a ruthless capitalist. But if Ione was able to do that, it is because there is a retiree who shouted in his health center that Ayuso is corrupt”, continues the narration, which continues with praise for the Minister of Equality: “We can is Irene Montero standing up to the hooligans with deputy card”; and Pablo Iglesias, the founder of the party, “telling Ferreras live that he was a protector of Inda and corrupt.”

But then the narration sends some poorly veiled messages to the rest of the political forces on the left and among them to the second vice president of the Government, who is reminded of her neutrality during the debate at the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine regarding the shipment of weapons to war. “Podemos is the militant of his whole bloody life who hallucinates and is outraged when he sees that his ministers put themselves in profile with NATO and the war in Ukraine and that only Ione says what he thinks,” the narrator starts over images of a Demonstration of the Communist Party of Spain -in which Yolanda Díaz is a member- against the NATO bases in Spain. “And she gets angry because she remembers that he likes red more than purple. And he remembers that he did not like Podemos at first but his instinct tells him who his people are, ”he adds.

References follow. “Some people think that all these people are few people, just a small group of resistance fighters far from the majority and condemned to live in a corner of the board,” the video continues in response to those who have argued at some point that Podemos is in frank political decline. The second part of the sentence serves as a response to the words of Yolanda Díaz in one of Sumar’s acts. “When you undertake a change of era, it is not done from the corner of the board but from the social majorities, from the centrality,” she said at a rally in Madrid at the beginning of January.

The Podemos video then includes another reference to one of the vice president’s traveling companions in her political project, the former number two of the party, Íñigo Errejón. “They do not understand that these people are the nucleus that radiates”, says the video to respond several years later to the cryptic message What the now leader of Más País wrote on Twitter, while attending a conference in Greece: “Hegemony moves in the tension between the irradiating nucleus and the seduction of the lateral allied sectors. Affirmation – opening”.

The message makes sense after the act on April 2 in Madrid in which Díaz launched his candidacy for the generals with his Sumar project, in an event attended by numerous progressive leaders and several former members of Podemos, such as Íñigo Errejón, but at the same time that the main party of the left did not attend after failing to reach an agreement with Sumar that would guarantee that the lists will be settled in primaries open to the public. The tension between Podemos and Yolanda Díaz has been maintained since then, with Belarra’s party demanding that the vice president campaign for her candidates on 28M but at the same time criticizing the rest of the forces that have not wanted to go together for the next elections.

It is those formations such as Más Madrid or Compromís, committed at least verbally to Díaz’s project, which have demanded to wait until after 28M to address the negotiations for a candidacy for the general elections. Those times arouse suspicion from the beginning in Podemos, where they believe that these parties are waiting to negotiate with a weakened party at the polls to get better positions.

“They have wanted to kill that rebellion a thousand times in the same way that today they want to kill Podemos, but rebellion always awakens at moments of historical crossroads,” Podemos responds in the video narrated by Guzmán. “That rebellion is much more than a party. On the 15th in Zaragoza we have to see each other and show that rebellion in a big rally. We need to be many to make it understood that to transform this country, the rebellion of those who do not keep silent is needed”, they appeal to try to mobilize an electorate that has been gradually taking off in recent years but whom they aspire to seduce again.