Podemos assumes the "unfair veto" of Montero on the Sumar lists and his "modest" role in Díaz's project

Belarra insists that his exclusion is a mistake that gives a victory to the right and Montero proclaims: "You must not accept the rules of the reaction game"

Podemos assumes the exclusion of the electoral lists for 23J with Sumar of the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, despite continuing to denounce the "unfair veto" of the candidate and second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, as well as the secondary role within the coalition of left.

Therefore, this chapter of tension closes and they promise to stand "behind Díaz" and be in the place that the leader of Sumar arranges for them, to guarantee that the formation will give everything to revalidate a progressive government.

This has been conveyed by both Montero herself and the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, during her speech at the formation's State Citizen Council, the highest executive body of the party between citizen assemblies, after the bad result of 28M and two days after registration of the sumar lists.

The purples had stated that they had signed the coalition without an agreement and had expressed their intention to reverse Montero's departure on lists for the final registration of the candidacies, scheduled for this Friday. However, the party is already leaving that position, admitting that its number two is out of the broad front for the generals made up of fifteen parties.

Belarra has explained that the "veto of Yolanda Díaz and Sumar" over Irene Montero is "above all a mistake because it implies the victory of the discipline of the right", which sends a "dangerous political message towards women's struggles".

"It means telling the people who put their bodies up for the people, the women who are at the forefront fighting for feminist advances, that in the end the attacks achieve their goal," she has deepened.

Before her co-religionists, the leader of Podemos has stressed that they have tried in recent days to get the leaders of Sumar to rectify this exclusion, but "unfortunately" it has not been possible.

Of course, he has made clear Podemos' rejection of this "veto", to promise that his formation "will never let go of his hand" and express his immense pride in the head of Equality, to explain that he is a benchmark not only for the present of the organization but is an "indispensable part" of the future of Podemos.

However, Belarra has declared that despite this they have collectively decided to sign the joint candidacy with Sumar, aware that in the face of the advance of the "reactionary wave" the only option to revalidate the progressive coalition government is a single candidacy to the left of the PSOE on 23J.

Therefore, they once again place the "collective interest" above the party itself, as they already did with the motion of no confidence that made Pedro Sánchez president or accept the exclusion of former Secretary General Pablo Iglesias in the first unsuccessful attempt at a coalition government with the PSOE, which led to the repetition of the elections on 23J.

THEY WILL BE WHAT DIAZ ASKS THEM

And it is that the also Minister of Social Rights is convinced that this will be the success in the medium term and, from now on, Podemos assumes the "modest" role it has in Sumar, admitting that after a long time his party will not mark the campaign strategy and they get "behind Diaz" wherever they are asked.

He has also reported that in the nine years of Podemos' life, the party has had to make difficult decisions, but it has always chosen the "correct path" even if it is the "most painful". What's more, he has stressed that to "win" you also have to know how to "lose".

For this reason, Belarra has recognized that many militants feel "sad" and "angry" about the veto of Montero and that he understands it, to later explain that the reality is that there is a "reactionary tsunami" and that "they are going against the current". as seen in the 28M elections.

"We are in the midst of a reactionary wave defined by nationalism, anti-feminism, the war regime, the confrontation of the penultimate against the last and also, it must be said clearly, by fascism," he pointed out to ask his leaders not to we must lose perspective, to insist that the union of the left is the way to combat this trend.

MONTERO: "THE RULES OF THE GAME OF REACTION" CANNOT BE ACCEPTED

Meanwhile, Montero has made an open speech, something unusual in Citizen Councils, to insist that his veto is "unfair", without going into more direct reproaches to Díaz.

During her speech, she dedicated herself to defending feminism as an "unstoppable" movement that has achieved many achievements such as the 'only yes is yes' law, the Trans Law, the reform of the Abortion Law or promoting a State pact against gender violence.

On the other hand, the number two of Podemos has transferred that feminists cannot accept "the rules of the game" of reaction and the extreme right. "We are not going to remain silent or stand still in the face of the reactionary offensive that is being deployed from the deepest powers and that the PP and Vox represent in institutional politics. We are going to speak and we are going to fight because it is what we know how to do best," he emphasized. .

He has also claimed, in the face of those who say that feminists have gone "too fast or far", that they must know how to stop", that women and LGTBi and Trans groups have been waiting a long time and that the Government has accelerated their rights because they were "urgent" because their lives are "valuable.

FEMINISM CANNOT BE SILENT BEFORE THE ATTEMPT TO STOP RIGHTS

"We do not want more generations of women who fight and do not live the result of their efforts (...) who try to stop our struggle (...) A feminist country is a better country for everyone, for everyone and for everyone. The reaction anti-feminist to our work and our advances tries to convince us that it cannot be done and therefore we stop trying. The reality is that their reaction is a consequence of our advances. The reality is that it can be done, yes we can, even if they are going to to make pay painful consequences that are going to come", has harangued the members of the Citizen Council of Podemos.

Then he quoted the writer Audre Lorde to emphasize that "silence does not protect" and that "the reaction is not stopped by being silent but by becoming visible".

"That's why we sing Here we are the feminists. That's why we vindicate a lot of trans pride and anger. The reaction is stopped by advancing in rights, reinforcing our capacity for collective action. Now they are showing us harshly the consequences that they want to make us pay for speaking, for not keeping quiet, for conquering rights", has insisted to denounce the "political violence" and the "discipline" of feminists.

Therefore, it has warned of the "invisibility of sexist violence", that women cannot decide on their bodies. "If we keep quiet now, it will normalize and it will even seem reasonable that a male abuser is a public representative or that we talk about domestic violence and not male violence. That there is only one type of family that is socially acceptable and the others have to go back into the closet." That they not only say that there is no intra-family violence, but that there is no sexist violence ", he has emphasized in a clear allusion to pacts between PP and Vox, especially in the Valencian Community.

Finally, in the face of the reactionary advance, it has prescribed feminism to strengthen its networks, social and institutional, to protect the rights won. "Feminism is the best thing this country has. The reaction is strong now, but it is not stronger than us," she has concluded.

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