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From time to time in Podemos large or small internal fires are fueled, organic conflicts with which the training has learned to live together since its inception. The last chapter has Aragon as the protagonist. The national leadership of the party has decided to remove the secretary general in this community, Nacho Escartín , and appoint a manager who will lead the party until May, when a Citizens Assembly of Podemos Aragón will be held where a new address will be appointed.

The decision of the Secretariat of Organization of Podemos comes after the Aragon leadership itself voted on February 16 in favor of advancing the regional assembly. Escartín, who was supported by errejonismo at the time, has repeatedly shown his discrepancies in certain decisions and strategies with the national leadership.

It was one of the drivers of the front that the territorial leaders sought to promote before Pablo Iglesias after the crisis caused by the flight of Íñigo Errejón and has affected the hierarchy of the party and the interference suffered from Madrid.

Escartín was in favor of having more autonomy and decision-making capacity, to the point that in the last general elections he came to ask Iglesias to change Pablo Echenique as a candidate for Zaragoza to facilitate an agreement with the CHA .

Sources of Podemos Aragón explain that the call of the Citizens Assembly of Podemos Aragón occurs after the opening of a debate in the Coordinating Council during last summer, in which the idea of ​​facing this process was addressed. They add that the debate was blocked by the holding of general elections on November 10 and the formation of the Government of Spain, but it was resumed with a vote last Sunday within the autonomous leadership.

The meeting ended with a support of three fifths of the Autonomous Citizen Council. After the result, the verdict was transferred to the State Coordination Council - the Executive of Podemos -, which set the constitution of a technical team before the tight schedule.

Pressures after poor election results

The situation in Podemos Aragón has been tense for months, at least unstable. In the face of Escartín's strategy, there were voices calling for a renewal. Only a few weeks ago, the regional deputies Itxaso Cabrera and Erika Sanz asked the Directorate of Podemos Aragón to convene the third Citizen Assembly for the renewal of the management body.

"After the Aragonese and municipal elections that led to a great loss of support at the polls, the need for this call was raised." "At that time," adds the note, "the secretary general of Podemos Aragón, Nacho Escartín, reported that he would open the process this past fall, however, despite announcing the opening of internal processes in other autonomous communities, it has not been so." in Aragon, "Cabrera and Sanz said in a joint press release.

Now that the regional leadership has given the green light to the renovation, from Podemos we have ceased the general secretary and appointed a manager formed by the members of the previous Autonomous Coordinating Council that were favorable to the realization of the Citizen Assembly in May.

This is Marta Prades Alquézar (Coordination), Carlos Arroyos Bellmunt (Organization), Maru Díaz Calvo (Communication), Marta de Santos Loriente (Municipal), Álex Abenoza Peruga (Participation), Blanca Grimal Monzón (Feminism), Andoni Corrales Palacio ( Institutional Action) and Iván Andrés Martínez (Legal).

New manager also in Catalonia

Escartín, as published by El Periódico de Aragón , after knowing his dismissal on Thursday, has sent a message to the circles of Podemos, in which he says that no one from the national address "neither by active nor by passive" warned him of this .

"Directly the citizen council is loaded, the general secretariat is loaded in an absolutely surprising way and they determine a lot the evolution of Podemos Aragón," says Escartín.

In addition to Aragon, autonomous citizen assemblies will be held, renewal of regional addresses, on the same dates, in Murcia , Andalusia, Extremadura , Castilla-La Mancha , Valencian Community, Madrid, Cantabria , La Rioja and Catalonia, this community The last one has also ceased its general secretary, Noelia Bail , and another management company has been imposed.

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