PDeCAT advises self-criticism of "traditional" parties due to political disaffection: "We have not done something right"

MADRID, 25 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The PDeCAT spokesman in Congress, Ferran Bel, recognized this Saturday the role played by "traditional" political parties, including their formation, in the political disaffection of today's society, a climate that in his opinion benefits populists , among which he points to Vox.

In an interview with the RNE Parliament program, the parliamentary spokesman mentioned the motion of no confidence promoted by those of Santiago Abascal with the economist Ramón Tamames as a candidate as an example of what favors this disaffection.

In his opinion, the objective of Vox with the motion was precisely this, to generate disaffection, in addition to "discrediting" the institutions and transmitting to society a feeling that everything is chaos and that the only alternative is a party "like this, "without a program but with a very populist discourse".

This "discredit" benefits "essentially Vox and all populists," according to Bel. "We have not known the traditional parties or those with more tradition or pedigree in recent years," he continued.

Along these lines, he added that "when there is political disaffection, the problem is not only with those who want to take advantage of it and promote it like Vox, but with the rest of the political parties." "We have not done something right for people to move away and, therefore, we must generate confidence in politics", he has abounded.

Required by how this situation can be counteracted, the parliamentarian points out that "trying to give prestige to politics." "That is the great challenge," he stresses. Thus, he has advocated "generating confidence in politics" and, for that, "you have to be very coherent, not promise what is not going to be fulfilled and try to make people perceive that politicians care about people's problems and that they are part of society.

From the Vox motion, where Bel made a brief intervention and resigned from giving a reply to Tamames, the PDeCAT spokesman has indicated that his objective was "not to fall into the trap" that those of Santiago Abascal had prepared with the initiative.

In addition, he has acknowledged that, despite having "very low expectations", he left "absolutely disappointed". He has also regretted "seeing the person he remembered as Professor Tamames as an absolutely blurred person and who does not maintain a clear criteria regarding anything."

"At some point it seemed that he had come more to do a radio gathering than to present a government program and an alternative to the Executive," he concluded.