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Ione Belarra she has given her first speech before a Citizen Council of Podemos as general secretary. And although he has focused his intervention on the things to eat in the game – that is, what should keep him alive, which is tighten the coalition government but not too much to break – he has earned the headline as an anti-system battering ram.
Neither the separation of powers nor the State model are an obstacle for it in the face of the superior interest of the party: “Rebuild the country on new foundations”, which is how they seem to call now in Podemos “break the lock of 78”. Thus, before his companions, he had broadside against the Popular Party, against the Judiciary and against the Monarchy.
To the PP of Pablo Casado He gave him for “blocking the democratic functioning” of the first and for being “the crutch” of the second. And to the two high institutions of the State, for being “questioning the very rules of democracy, causing you serious harmThe purple leader suggested, again, the resignation of Carlos Lesmes at the head of the CGPJ and the Supreme Court “if he is so worried” and accused him of acting “always associated with the PP”.
And regarding the State model, Belarra did not depart from the discourse that his predecessor had already begun: “The successive data that we are learning about the affairs of the King Emeritus make his flight more and more unsustainable and place the Monarchy in an impossible situation of social questioning“The leader of Podemos demanded his return to Spain, and that he” render accounts before the Justice “and” before the Congress of Deputies. “
Belarra has asked for the time. She is the heir to Podemos, the “instrument for change” that once reached 69 deputies and contested the primacy of the left with the PSOE, and which is now sinking in the polls. But that he is in the Government and that, therefore, he has the power to influence politics … or to “make public policies for the people.” This is how the general secretary expressed it.
As an example of the former, a hard blow to your partner the PSOE, which is a party “with opposing interests” to those of the purple ones that, we remember, are those of “the disadvantaged, the vulnerable and the minorities”. And as a sample of the second, the demands of Podemos in the negotiation of the 2022 Budgets.
Citizen Council
Belarra is serving three months as secretary general of Podemos and, shortly, six as minister. In this time he hasn’t even tried to shake himself off the very long shadow of Pablo Iglesias, the former vice president and founder of Podemos. And also, who appointed her to the position.
When he left after the 4-M debacle in Madrid, we discovered that he had a ‘blue notebook’ like Aznar’s, where the names of two women were listed: one to take care of his legacy in the Government, Yolanda Diaz, and another to try to revive the party, her.
This Friday, in a terrible schedule if you are not Pedro Sánchez -At 3:00 p.m., the newscasts only connect initially with Moncloa or Zarzuela-, Belarra has convened its first State Citizen Council, the highest purple management body between congresses. And in it he has not only reviewed what he has inherited, as a party leader and as a minister after the pandemic … also has laid the foundations of what you want. Of what it will require.
And all that happens through another premiere, that of his first budget negotiation. At least, as the maximum person in charge of Podemos in it: “It is evident that there are many decisions that this Government has taken that They would not be explained without the presence of United We Can in it “, he has presumed, before giving examples:” The social shield, the ERTE, the increase in the Minimum Wage, the law of sexual freedoms, the prohibition of the advertising of the betting houses or reducing the benefits of electricity“… yet to be achieved.
The truth is that Belarra’s entire speech before his people revolved, in one way or another, around “the war that the electricity companies have declared to the first government that has dared to touch its ‘benefits fallen from the sky’“, taking that credit, by the way. Because the purple leader wanted to make it very clear that if the coalition executive” governs defending the people and cutting privileges to the powerful “it is because it includes United We Can.
“The people” or “the opposite”
“We are clear about who we defend, although sometimes we do not achieve all the progress we want.” That is to say, stick to the PSOE, from “the minority position” of the Council of Ministers, because “we are aware that this Government is made up of two different political forces, with different trajectories and that they respond to interests on opposite occasions.” And because that causes a “constant tension”, which grows every summer, when it comes to talking about public accounts.
“A) Yes [con esta tensión] we are going to carry out the negotiation of the General State Budgets for the year 2022 “. Something that he made abundantly clear, with his first concrete warning:” It would not be logical to approach this negotiation without the agreements closed last year already being a reality “. That is to say, what the rents were last year will be represented this year by the electricity bill.
“You cannot lower the price of electricity without touching the benefits of the electricity oligopoly, nor can regulate rental prices without the large owners ceasing to do business with the right to housing, “he said.
And in sources from his party, this newspaper has been able to confirm two things in this regard: the first, that without seeing the intervention of the rental market reflected – “as is signed for almost a year, for the PGE of 2021 “- nor will they sit down to negotiate with the PSOE. And the second, that the condition sine qua non for this year they will be “the immediate measures to lower the electricity bill.”
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