Iglesias defends that the break with Sumar is received with "relief" and "joy" in the Podemos bases

He says that being represented in Congress by Marta Lois "was not easy to swallow" and that Díaz was a minister thanks to the purple ones

BARCELONA, 6 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The former leader of Podemos Pablo Iglesias has literally defined Podemos's break with Sumar as an enormous relief and enormous joy for the militancy of the formation, given that this decision will allow the purples to "enforce those five deputies" in Congress.

He has also emphasized that when talking about "loyalty" we must remember "who made" the leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, first a deputy, then a minister and then vice president, as well as who negotiated with the PSOE that IU and Comuns had ministries, since he has reported that they are "facts that are there" and that all of this was caused by Podemos.

"The persecution of Podemos is the best proof of what Podemos represents," the former second vice president of the Government said this Wednesday in an interview on Rac1 collected by Europa Press.

" Podemos had few alternatives, let's say, after these months. It is not only the question of the veto of Podemos in the Government, but they had left Podemos without any capacity for political influence in the parliamentary group," he reproached.

For this reason, he has insisted that he is happy because being "represented by Marta Lois was not something easy to swallow", and has assured that Podemos communicated its decision to Sumar, PSOE, EH Bildu, ERC, BNG and the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, before announcing it to the press.

"I think Sumar has decided to represent something else, he has decided to ally himself with some media actors who are enemies of Podemos and assume a very different relationship with the PSOE, in which I believe they are going to have many difficulties not to appear the same," he considered. .

Given this diagnosis, he has reaffirmed his party's will to "build a parliamentary left bloc in the face of a Government that has already said that it wants to rely more on the PNV and Junts than on the parliamentary left."

Asked about the resignation of the president of the commons in the Parliament, Jéssica Albiach, of Podem Catalunya, and of the until now regional coordinator of Podemos in Madrid, Jesús Santos, he responded that "in reality they had been away from Podemos for a long time."

"There is a type of political professional who has the ability to try to cling to the boat that at each moment they consider to be the strongest for their interests, and these profiles will always exist in politics. Difficult moments are also very beautiful because they serve to knowing who believes in a political project and who, let's say, not so much," he noted.

Asked if Podemos will run alone in the European elections, he responded that it is the militancy's decision, although he stated that "We can have to be there, with its own policy of alliances: it is a very difficult international context."

When asked if the former Minister of Equality and leader of Podemos, Irene Montero, could be a candidate, Iglesias explained that "it is early to talk about it, and the agenda and calendars have to be established by the party."