Yolanda Díaz raises her voice regarding the Cerdán case: "We are not the same. The problem is the PP and the PSOE."
Podemos also points out that the Spanish government "is already dead."
Barcelona/MadridThe alleged corruption case within the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) involving illegal commissions from the scheme between the two former organizational secretaries, Santos Cerdán and José Luis Ábalos, and former advisor Koldo García, is increasingly cornering the Spanish government. This has led Pedro Sánchez's investiture partners to they have already left him alone in defense of her executive, but also a hardening of the tone of her governing partner, Sumar. While several parties in the platform of Spain's second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, are considering whether to break with the project with which they had allied themselves, and Podemos is particularly forceful against the state executive, the Galician politician has decided to harden her tone. "The problem lies with two parties, the PP and the PSOE, and that is what must end," she stated this Saturday at the closing ceremony of the thirteenth confederal congress of the CCOO (Working Workers' Party).
"The left in this country doesn't steal, we don't steal. The problem isn't new; it's called a two-party system," Díaz insisted. She added that "zero corruption does exist" and that not everyone is "equal," because in Sumar, corruption is "clean." With a cry of "indignation," he also defended his party's claim that it has "five clean ministries" and "a political space that has governed and never stolen." In this way, he raised the tone against the Socialists for the "corrupt, scoundrel gentlemen and their despicable way of acting," referring to the alleged corruption scheme, against which his party has been saying for days that Sánchez's response has been "insufficient." However, according to groups that have so far been part of Sumar in Congress, such as Compromís, Més por Menorca, and Més por Mallorca, they are annoyed with the Spanish government, and also Díaz's party for the "disappointing" response of the Spanish president.
These parties will vote starting next week on whether to leave the Sumar parliamentary group and join the mixed group in the Congress of Deputies: the Valencian party has called a national council this Monday to open a consultation on the matter, while the Balearic parties will vote on June 26 and July 5, with Vidal requesting that Podemos be released from Sumar.
Podemos returns
At the same time, Podemos has returned to its attack on the Spanish executive. The secretary general of the purple party, Ione Belarra, emphasized in a state citizens' council meeting with members that Pedro Sánchez's government "is already dead" and that she only doubts when it will end. She also emphasized that the corruption of the PSOE "is a form of bipartisan government and is not a case of bad apples." Therefore, she commented that "what has been revealed in Spain in recent days leaves no doubt" that "Pedro Sánchez's term is over," in line with what she has been saying in recent days. In her opinion, not only has the government come to an end, but also "an entire political cycle is coming to an end," because the period in which the PSOE was able to present itself as "an alternative to the corruption of the PP" and as a force "for progress" has ended, she said.
