The Podemos bases will vote starting tomorrow on the new roadmap that defends their autonomy against Sumar and alliances without vetoes

It marks its requirements for future pacts and Belarra criticizes the attempt to replace them with another project "less annoying" for the power

MADRID, 1 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Podemos puts its new political document to a vote this Thursday and Friday, which redefines its new organizational roadmap and links any electoral coalition agreement to respect for its political autonomy, as well as the holding of primaries "without vetoes" after the coalition pact signed with Sumar.

In turn, the general secretary, Ione Belarra, has stated today that in the last two years there has been a process with the aim of "reducing the capacity for political action and representation" of Podemos to "replace" its project with another "proposal." that does not bother the power structure".

This vote represents the last phase of the rearmament process of the organization that was launched by the party leadership on September 16 with the development of a new roadmap open to contributions from the bases and that will culminate this Saturday, with a political conference in Madrid where the result of that consultation and the main lines of the party's strategy for the coming months will be announced.

The party has explained that the text has been debated in thirty meetings at the regional level, with the participation of the main state leaders, and in hundreds of meetings in circles.

In total, 5,900 activists have participated in person and directly and 2,255 amendments have been collected, both individual and collective. 86.16% of these contributions have been incorporated into the final document.

Thus, the question that the party addresses to those registered is the following: "do you approve of Podemos's new roadmap in which its autonomy is reinforced, its strengthening as an organization, and the articulation of pre-electoral agreements when these are useful and always that the lists be configured through primaries and without vetoes?"

With this, it focuses the focus on the conditions for future electoral alliances of unity on the left and after the party leader, Ione Belarra, warned at the beginning of the process in September that the conditions of the coalition agreement with adding for the elections of 23J could not be repeated, given that they were unfair to the party, there were no primaries and the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, was excluded from the lists.

Today and through a video broadcast on social networks, Belarra praised that the collective debate on the party's strategy has reached an "unprecedented" level of effective participation by the bases.

Therefore, and after highlighting the qualities of her training, Belarra has appealed to the need to recover a "strong" Podemos that is capable of "setting the direction of the State" as she did in 2018 and 2019, and that is also capable of deploy an ambitious feminist agenda, which fights for an effective reduction in rental prices in the Housing Law and is not afraid to say that Israel is a "genocidal state" with its military offensive in Gaza.

In September, the leader of Podemos explained that her responsibility is to preserve the way of doing politics of her organization and that is why the initial document established the desire to reach an agreement on unity on the left for the next elections, but as long as guarantee "mutual respect for autonomy" between the different coalition formations.

At the same time, it clearly states that they are its own political project and emphasizes that there is no possibility of double militancy in the formation (an option that Sumar's statutes do leave open), out of respect for its own bodies and other political forces.

One of the conclusions of the text is the conviction that Podemos will "never" share the "return" to the "old pre-15M political culture, of offices and leaders who have been holding public and organic positions for 30 years."

It also rejects deploying a "technocratic" or "aristocratic" notion of the "government of the best", but will maintain its "hallmark" of encouraging consultations with its bases in the face of the "anti-participatory dynamics" that continue to "reign" in the main political forces.