“Nothing that Pedro Sánchez says today is credible. “No one believes the systematic excuse that Sánchez no longer knew anything,” the secretary of the Podemos organization, Pablo, said on Monday during his usual press conference. … Fernández, who, without mincing his words, accused the PSOE of having “hidden” and “concealed” the alleged cases of sexual harassment and corruption of its leaders like Francisco Salazar, José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán. Something, in the opinion of the spokesperson for the purple formation, “extremely serious”. “Where are the anti-corruption measures you announced in June? “They are where the feminism of the PSOE is: kept in a locked drawer,” declared the number three of Ione Belarra’s party.
Fernández thus attacks an executive that they consider to be “dead” and which, according to him, will be destroyed by machismo, corruption and also housing. He also took the opportunity to attack a PSOE that Podemos accuses of having opened an “irreparable” crack in the progressive electorate of this country, in addition to “having learned nothing from 15-M or 8-M”. Now, according to the purple formation, the PSOE “is late”. He nevertheless demands that the president of the government give explanations and that his party “returns every last stolen cent”.
Aware of the negligible power granted by only four seats – the very ones that, however, on countless occasions, have been ousted by the Belarra seats for profits and by the Sánchez Executive, the key to moving forward with their legislative initiatives -, they now say their hands are tied. “We are not partners,” they insist, convincing themselves that they are no longer part of the investiture bloc while continuing to support Sánchez, aware that they will let him down because this would carry the risk of suppressing the coming to power of the right, the PP and Vox. This is why they will not demand an electoral advance. “The government is a corpse, a zombie. We couldn’t feel further away from him. But the one who has to make the decisions is Sánchez,” they apologize.
Podemos does not act, but it allows itself to encourage the other left camp, Sumar, minority partner of the coalition government, to act. All this after the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, raised her voice last Thursday and demanded that the head of executive reshape his cabinet. Something that, in Fernández’s eyes, would imply that there is “a minister involved or having a direct impact” in these cases of corruption and sexual harassment. In any case, the Purple spokesperson believes that such a restructuring “is not going to change anything”. What Yolanda Díaz and her ministers should do, according to them, is leave the government. “We certainly could have left the government,” he said.
In passing, he took the opportunity to affirm that “we need a courageous left that resists sanchism” because “lukewarm governments end up being the prelude to right-wing governments”, declared the purple secretary of the Organization in reference to the victory of the right José Antonio Kas in Chile and above all, in a veiled allusion to Sumar. “We must take the example of Spain,” he concluded.
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