Sumar’s parties explain their discomfort with the PSOE: “The president lost an opportunity to be accountable”
Representatives of Sumar’s parties in government (Izquierda Unida, Comunes, Más Madrid and Movimiento Sumar) presented themselves to Congress last March to demand from the PSOE a “relaunch” of the Executive and to explain their discomfort following the appearance of President Pedro Sánchez. At the same time as Enrique Santiago, IU’s parliamentary spokesperson, publicly complained about the coalition’s monitoring committee meeting, the parties issued a statement outlining their position. “We consider that the President of the Government has missed an opportunity to report with the necessary clarity and force in the face of cases of corruption and the lack of firm responses to situations of sexual and workplace harassment that affect the PSOE. This situation cannot be addressed since its inaction or since its continuation without changes”, we read in the writing signed by four organizations.
“We reaffirm our commitment to promoting and accelerating the government’s social and democratic agenda. The advances made during the legislature are the result of the work and demands of our coalition, and we will continue to act responsibly to ensure that the Executive respects the mandate received through the ballot box,” the text continues.
In Sumar he maintains his petition for the renovation of equipment, but it remains to be seen that we must go further in modifying costs, fundamentally in housing with the extension of rental contracts that expire in the coming months or the moratorium on losses for vulnerable families, and in the intervention on the prices of certain basic products. “We are convinced that there is a clear disorientation and paralysis within the PSOE, but we are accustomed to the fact that from the first time the PSOE begins to lose a problem. Then comes the quiet work and then the agreement to take better measures,” Santiago said during the press conference.
“We ask the PSOE for an urgent meeting to analyze the current situation, to understand the measures it plans to implement to combat corruption and cases of sexual and workplace harassment, as well as the necessary changes within the government to agree on the social measures and defense of the right to housing that we will immediately implement from there. A coalition government. The city needs an executive that acts with transparency, determination and commitment, and that lives up to the historic responsibility assumed”, concludes the press release.
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