Podemos has claimed this Saturday social mobilization as the core of its strategy to rebuild the space of the alternative left. During the Spring Festival held in Madrid, the party's general secretary, Ione Belarra, defended that protests, demonstrations, and strikes are the way to accumulate enough strength and once again dispute political power.
Belarra assured that there is a deep disconnection between political debates and the real concerns of citizens. Furthermore, she accused the PSOE of having disappointed a large part of the progressive electorate by not addressing problems such as housing and due to cases of alleged corruption affecting socialist leaders.
The leader of Podemos maintained that there are no shortcuts to transform reality and appealed to the active participation of citizens. In this sense, she encouraged strengthening combative unionism, protests, and other forms of collective mobilization to confront inequalities and the influence of large economic powers.
For her part, Irene Montero regretted that a general strike has not been called in Spain in the last fourteen years and defended that social rights have always been the result of popular pressure. In her opinion, democracy is strengthened when there is an organized and mobilized citizenry.
The former Minister of Equality also took advantage of her intervention to criticize the PSOE and the political space represented by Sumar, considering that the attempt to integrate the entire left under the socialist orbit has failed. As she stated, the left only advances when it maintains political autonomy and capacity for confrontation.
During the event, Podemos leaders also expressed their support for Belarra after the conviction that obliges her to compensate former magistrate Manuel García Castellón. Likewise, they denounced what they consider judicial persecution against the party and claimed the need to build a political alternative supported by social mobilization.
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