Montero and Belarra accuse Frente Amplio of preferring to agree with the PSOE in the Senate rather than with Podemos in Communities

The general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, and her candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Irene Montero, criticized Frente Amplio this Saturday, October 17, for agreeing on single lists for the Senate with the PSOE instead of lists for both chambers with Podemos in many autonomous communities.

Belarra, as organic leader, and exceptionally this time also Montero, began with their interventions today's meeting of the Podemos State Citizen Council, the highest body of the party between assemblies, and which was convened urgently yesterday afternoon, instead of the usual three days.

They thus verbalized the first comments of the party after it was consummated that there will be no unitary lists of the state left for the general elections except in the Valencian Community and the Canary Islands. The Frente Amplio parties did reach an agreement at the last moment to present joint lists with the PSOE to the Senate, except in Catalonia and the Canary Islands, to try to wrest control of the chamber from the PP and Vox.

Belarra began her speech with the eviction and death of Maricarmen Abascal as "the straw that broke the camel's back" that made people say "enough", and the subsequent camps and popular mobilization, "the best thing that has happened in Spain in a long time."

Along these lines, he said that the general strike of the 11th will be "a political milestone as important as the elections," because "organized people have more power" than the Government, Parliament and the shadow powers.

On the political level, he insisted on his thesis that the legislature was exhausted, and interpreted that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, took advantage of the mobilizations to do "what the PSOE does best: "trilerismo", to try to embody himself as the savior of the housing crisis after eight years of doing nothing and lay "a red carpet" for the right. "More PSOE will only bring more PP and Vox," he predicted, asking the working class to vote "in self-defense."

Irene Montero has recognized that the negotiations between the leftist formations have been insufficient for many people and has endorsed the apologies of the ERC spokesperson in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, for the "spectacle" offered during the talks. However, the Podemos candidate for the Presidency of the Government has defended as "valuable" the agreement reached with the Republicans to run together in Catalonia and has attributed the lack of broader pacts to the serious "political disagreements" they maintain with the parties that make up Sumar.

Montero has insisted that primaries were the "only way" to resolve these differences and has criticized the preference of these parties for negotiations in offices. Despite admitting that the agreements have not gone as far as they intended, he has defended that Podemos has acted with "a lot of generosity" and has managed to close joint candidacies wherever possible, such as in the Canary Islands and the Valencian Community.