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One day after being chosen by the militancy as the new secretary general of Podemos, Ione Belarra has made her first internal decision: to appoint

Lilith Verstrynge

as head of Organization of the

purple

formation

.

In this way, Verstrynge replaces Alberto Rodríguez as

number three

of the party after he announced on May 13 that he would take "a step to the side" and would not be part of any candidacy to lead Podemos.

Belarra's commitment is to design a "coral" and "feminized" dome in Podemos, a desire that can be seen in the election of Verstrynge as the party's head of organization.

Lilith Verstrynge (Madrid, 1993) has been a member of Podemos for several years, a formation of which she has been an advisor at different times.

He was part of the electoral list of Pablo Iglesias - previously he had been part of his Speech team in the second vice presidency of the Government - to the Madrid Assembly in the face of the recent regional elections of 4-M, but did not win a seat.

At an organic level, he already performed functions within Podemos as head of Ecological Transition in the previous executive.

Party members selected her in position 11 of the State Citizen Council resulting from the Assembly held this weekend in Alcorcón.

A major challenge

The challenge that Verstrynge faces is not minor: it will be in charge of designing the territorial rearticulation that the party needs after losing presence and membership in various regions of the country in recent years.

The intention of Belarra, who has surrounded herself with numerous regional training leaders in her team, is to relaunch the training structure and root it in a decentralized way, within the "choral" scheme that it has proposed in its political plan.

"There is a lot of Spain beyond Madrid," she expressed during her first speech as general secretary, this Sunday.

Belarra's campaign was already designed with the intention of highlighting the "multinationality" that Podemos understands about the territorial model of Spain.

Thus, he toured various points of the national geography during the presentation of his project: Valencia, Zaragoza, Gijón, Cáceres ...

To date, Alberto Rodríguez had been the Organization secretary of Podemos.

On May 13, days after Pablo Iglesias' political resignation, he announced that he would not continue in this new stage in training: "It is time to close a stage," he said.

Something that he framed within a "natural process" of internal changes in Podemos.

"This decision has nothing to do with the unjust police persecution that I suffer," he stressed, in relation to the judicial case that he has open, in which he is accused of having attacked a policeman in January 2014, and for the that the

Office

of the Supreme Court

Prosecutor

requests six months in prison.

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