Montero says that Podemos will appear in Galicia and Euskadi and is committed to agreements with PSOE and Sumar to form a government

He affirms that at the state level they will have their "own path" to the Díaz project and it will be respected in the negotiations on the PGE

MADRID, 18 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Podemos candidate for the European elections and former Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, has indicated that the purple party will be "of course" in the regional elections of Galicia and Euskadi, while she has shown her willingness to reach agreements with the PSOE and Sumar to form a government.

"Of course yes, we will be at all the electoral appointments," Montero assured, before emphasizing that political formations are formed to run for election, although he has not specified how his party will attend these electoral appointments and if it will be in coalition or separately.

In an interview this Monday on TVE, collected by Europa Press, the 'number two' of Podemos has indicated that in her party they believe in the power of the institutional and consider it important to be in the Government, in the Congress, in the Senate, in the regional parliaments and city councils "to be able to transform."

It is worth remembering that Podemos makes alliances with Sumar in these autonomous communities subject to primaries without vetoes and the endorsement of the regional directorates. At this moment, the conversations in Galicia are interrupted and in Euskadi they continue to dialogue.

After announcing on Saturday that she will run in the Podemos primaries to be its candidate for the 2024 European elections, Montero has justified that she is taking the step because "it is not enough to keep things as they are or make small tweaks", but she sees it as necessary to change. "from top to bottom" the way of organizing the economy and life, which is now "deeply unjust, racist, sexist and condemns many people."

Montero has pointed out that for Podemos many times the reading of elections has been that they play it "all or nothing", but that if they run it is to make possible things that they are told are impossible, such as the first coalition government, the tax on large fortunes or the Housing or Trans laws.

"It has always been necessary to take risks. Podemos is a political tool that has never thought about preserving quotas of power, but rather about using those spaces of institutional power," he claimed.

When asked about the break with Sumar, Montero has defended that they are different forces and that the decision to break has been "difficult but necessary" to have their own voice in Congress, but that both with the formation of Vice President Yolanda Díaz and with The PSOE will have to understand each other and "reach agreements to form a government" and for the issues that are necessary.

He has stressed, however, that Podemos has its "own path" and, after turning the page on the break with Sumar, it will continue to "promote the transformations that surely no one else dares" to be an even "more useful" party than in the last decade.

Montero has maintained that the pact with Sumar was limited to an "electoral agreement" that Podemos accepted although it was "unfair", since it included vetoes towards them and a lack of internal democracy, without primaries, which "would never have been proposed to any other politic party".

"We put the interest of Spain first, we believed that it was possible or at least necessary to try to win over the right and that for that, due to the type of electoral law we have, an electoral coalition was better," he added.

Regarding whether they will negotiate the General State Budgets on their own, the former minister has indicated that Podemos is a "fully autonomous" party that will work for the unity of the "democratic bloc", in which she also places EH Bildu and ERC.

"We will see what the Budget proposal is and we will work so that there are no cuts, so that there is an increase in social investment, to review very carefully what are the military commitments that Spain is assuming with Israel," he advanced.

In this sense, Montero has justified breaking with Sumar because they doubt that by continuing within the coalition led by Díaz they could achieve these claims.

And he has stated that Podemos will negotiate and agree from the maxim of respect, which "means respecting others and also not consenting to being disrespected and being respected", "also the strength that citizens have given it."

Regarding 'lawfare' or judicial war to achieve political objectives, Montero has maintained that in Spain "of course there is."

At this point, he recalled the file of the 'Neurona case' or the prison sentence of former judge Salvador Alba for trying to harm the former Government delegate against Gender Violence, Victoria Rosell. Alba created false reports that were used by the former 'popular' Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism, José Manuel Soria, to file a complaint against the former Government delegate and former Podemos deputy.

Montero has stressed that, "luckily", it was possible to prove that there was fabrication of false evidence and that "corrupt judge" is in prison today. "But if it had not been possible to prove it, they would surely have broken her life, not only her professional life but her life as a magistrate," she pointed out in reference to Rosell.

The former Minister of Equality has stressed that lawfare is one of the "big problems" of Spanish democracy and that it has been exercised "against Podemos and against the independence movement." She has also pointed out that the damage caused to her political formation is already "irreparable."

Montero has also considered it "necessary" that there are "brave" political forces like Podemos that speak of "judicial machismo" when the PSOE does not want to "fight." "What we want is for the rule of law to be respected in this country and for there to be no corrupt practices from the reactionary sectors of the Judiciary and the media power," he indicated.

Regarding the motion of censure in Pamplona that the Mayor's Office will give to EH Bildu and that the purples support, he celebrated that it is "good news" for the citizens of the Navarrese capital.

Montero has defined Bildu as a "fully democratic" political force that, within the "progressive, plurinational and feminist bloc", has allowed the country to carry out "the main advances" in the last term, so he sees it as "good" for Spain. .

And he has criticized that the right-wing parties are "overacting" with this motion, which will displace the Navarro People's Union from the Mayor's Office, and are using arguments that try to undermine the very principles of democracy.