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Podemos disappears from Galicia and loses almost half of deputies in the Basque Country. The panorama that the autonomic elections in these communities leave for the purple formation is a great bump, a "defeat without palliatives" as Pablo Iglesias defined it. The results have caused the critical sector to ask the national leadership to assume responsibilities. "It is a very established trend: the more internal power monopolizes the current leadership, the more disastrous the results are," says Ramón Espinar, former party leader in Madrid.

The seriousness of the results is evident in the assessment made of them by Antón Gómez-Reino, Galician candidate. Just a minute and a half, the time needed to signal a "bad result", a "failure without palliative". Both the candidate and Iglesias have anticipated the need for "deep reflection", for "deep self-criticism".

For the critical sector, the focus is not on the candidates, but on the national leadership. "You cannot continue to blame eternally the failures on those who left, broke or got kicked out. You have to point the blow to a party leadership that has wanted to control everything at the cost of turning Podemos into a site without anyone bothering them" , is the reflection that Espinar has made. Both Gómez-Reino and Miren Gorrotxategi were two bets from Madrid, despite being the most unknown candidates for voters, as reflected by the CIS.

For Nacho Escartín, former leader of Podemos in Aragón, "you have to assume responsibilities and, above all, define how to evolve so as not to repeat mistakes." In his analysis, he also points to the accumulation of power of the current party leaders as a problem. "The spaces for change are not useful if they are thought only as a place where a few people direct and manage, but must include the participation of many people in a common project."

"Leadership and power must be shared and distributed to favor popular organization everywhere: neighborhoods, towns, jobs and schools," says Escartín. Both he and Espinar were two of the leaders purged by the state leadership by not sharing the same opinions. As reported by this newspaper, in the conversations between the dome of Podemos there was talk since the end of 2018 of "conquering" territories such as Asturias, the Basque Country, Aragon and Andalusia. In the case of Espinar, he ended up being separated due to his predisposition to negotiate with Íñigo Errejón, a thesis contrary to that maintained by Iglesias and his team.

"The campaign message, remotely directed from Madrid, about government agreements does not excite anyone. Because it conveys that there is no project beyond the distribution of power. And because one cannot speak of plurinationality and lead a campaign in Galicia and the Basque Country from Madrid Espinar adds.

Lack of structure exposed

The bump in Galicia and the Basque Country shows the lack of structure and settlement of Podemos. Beyond Madrid, the game is in the bones. An evil that causes the formation to lose votes every time the ballot boxes are opened. The Iglesias team recognized him in his proposal to be re-elected just a few months ago as the leader of Podemos, pointing out the deficit when it comes to "weaving from below and at the same time building a solid organization, rooted in our towns and cities. , with broad foundations and political debate that guarantees a long-term transformative project ".

That deficit, far from being corrected, is still present. The effort to "build an electoral war machine" and the intention of entering the Government have removed this organic structure from the table. An issue that was already raised after the indentation of votes and deputies in the autonomic elections of 2019, but which remains unsolved, as pointed out this Sunday by a referent of the party such as Juan Carlos Monedero: "We can, who has changed the politics of this country still does not dedicate the bulk of its energies to what it must: build a party. "

An analysis that has also been exposed by the new party leader in the Basque Country, Pilar Garrido: "In this short and intense journey, we have not yet managed to create a strong, stable, united, rooted organization in our towns and cities. And we believe that It can take its toll on potential voters. It is true that we are a young organization, but it is not an excuse. Our challenge and our debt to the people who vote for us, and also to the militancy, is to create a cohesive, friendly, feminist, reliable organization, government. We are committed to building that organization. "

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