Belarra, Montero, Echenique, Pablo Iglesias, Monedero and other party officials will speak on the effects of the war in Ukraine
MADRID, 17 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, will participate this Monday together with the leadership of Podemos in a summer course at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), which organizes the training and where she will emphasize for two days in her speech in defense of peace before the current war in the Ukraine.
Apart from the also head of Labor, the leader of Podemos and Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, her counterpart in Equality, Irene Montero, the spokesperson for United We Can in Congress, Pablo Echenique, will take part in different presentations that will take place until Tuesday. , and the former leader of the formation, Pablo Iglesias.
Among the participants in this course are also the philosopher, political scientist and professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Westminster, Chantal Mouffe, the Secretaries of State Nacho Álvarez and Ángela Rodríguez-Pam, the party’s co-spokesperson, Isa Serra , and the political scientist and co-founder of Podemos, Juan Carlos Monedero.
In this way, Díaz will attend one of the tables of the course together with the Secretary of Organization of the purple formation, Lilith Verstrynge, and joins an event organized by this party after not attending other important calls, such as the recent ‘Fiesta of spring’ or the ‘Autumn University’.
The Minister of Labor has already launched the ‘Sumar’ platform, called to configure the space to the left of the PSOE and which was recently presented in Madrid during an event attended by more than 5,000 people with a large presence of representatives of social groups and intermediate positions of parties, but without any leader of the progressive formations.
During his speech at said event, he commented that ‘Sumar’ is not about “neither acronyms nor parties”, but rather it is a citizen movement against resignation and that gives prominence to civil society.
In the case of Podemos, Belarra and Montero explained that it was the vice president herself who asked them not to attend the presentation of ‘Sumar’, a decision that they respected since it is up to Díaz to decide on the times and steps to take in this project. The head of Equality did emphasize that the launch of the platform was “good news” and the leader of Podemos said that its formation, the largest of United We Can, will contribute to unity.
The Andalusian elections led to a rapprochement between the vice president and the purple formation, given that Díaz shared two meetings with Belarra and that improvement in harmony could also be seen with his presence at the Pride event organized by the Ministry of Equality, which brought together both also with Montero.
In this way, sources from the confederal space appreciate that after these elections, where the unity candidacy ‘For Andalusia’ had a bad result, and the negotiation of the anti-crisis decree has served for both sectors to reconnect.
Under a program designed by the Republic and Democracy Institute, the Podemos think tank, the course will be held with the title ‘The war that changed everything: energy sovereignty, geopolitics and new rights’, with the war in Ukraine as a backdrop .
From the party they pointed out that this forum will highlight their “defense of peace and democracy” at the center of the debate. Since the beginning of the conflict, Podemos has opted to focus all efforts on diplomatic channels to try to achieve an immediate ceasefire and believes that this is not the time to increase military spending, given that the priority should be to improve social policies.
Finally, Podemos stressed that it will reflect on “the challenges of the 21st century such as the ecological crisis, the inability of neoliberalism to provide answers for the majority, the rise of the extreme right, the action-reaction in the face of the advances of feminism and the armed conflicts that emerge from geopolitical change and the end of US hegemony”.
Last year’s edition of the UCM summer courses in El Escorial already brought together Belarra, Montero and Díaz as speakers in a course focused on the role of feminism.
