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A declaration of intentions.

Ione Belarra has taken advantage of her first intervention at the controls of the new Podemos apparatus to reaffirm the party's commitment to comply with the Government's agreement with the PSOE to the last point.

"We are not going to renounce any of the measures that we have signed with the PSOE," stressed the new

purple

secretary general

, who has chaired the State Citizen Council for the first time this Friday, the party's executive body, also elected last weekend. week at the IV Assembly of Podemos, in Alcorcón.

Belarra's statements come at a time of maximum tension due to the rise in the price of the electricity bill, a phenomenon that, he has confessed, "is being very difficult" to counteract.

In this sense, since the training session, it has been committed in the last hours to lower the VAT on electricity to stop the rise in the price of the receipt.

"We assume criticism," said Belarra, who has admitted that Podemos does not have enough weight within the Executive to be able to propose all the changes that the party would like on this issue: "With the strength we have, confront the oligopoly electrical is being extraordinarily complicated ".

Society's "frustration"

Thus, Belarra has said she understands "the frustration" of those who contemplate how urgent changes come "so slowly" and has reiterated her intention to fulfill each and every one of the promises signed in the pact with the PSOE, to who has accused of "dragging his feet to avoid complying with the government agreement."

In his speech, he referred to several of the measures agreed between partners at the end of 2019 and which, in some cases, have been blocked for months due to differences in the Council of Ministers: a Housing Law "that regulates rental prices and slows evictions without a housing alternative "or an LGTBI and Trans Law" that guarantees self-determination of gender. " These have been the

red lines

of Podemos to date and, as stated by Belarra in its new roadmap, they continue to be.

To do this, the secretary general of Podemos has asked the positions of his party "humility and commitment to the common good."

He has insisted on his objective of repealing the labor reform this year, as announced by the third vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, and on improving the SMI and the Minimum Vital Income, of which he has once again admitted failures: "It is not working well and you have to admit it. "

Target: Budgets for 2022

Among the guidelines of the new course of Podemos, Belarra has highlighted the need to be a "strong" party in order to approve the next General State Budgets and to guarantee that the project continues "on the path" of expansionary policies and social.

A negotiation that Podemos considers to be "long and difficult", and in which the party must ensure that the "state leadership bloc" that made the last Budgets possible remains intact.

In this sense, Belarra has defined this majority as a "condition of possibility" of the advances that the progressive forces desire.

In addition, in the medium term the party will face other challenges: to reach the regional and municipal elections of 2023 with power, for which Belarra has asked to "grow" and "root" the formation at the regional level again, and that same year , to surpass the PSOE as the main left force, which would make it possible to turn the United We Can coalition into the first government force and not into a minority partner, as it is currently.

For this, the

purple

leader

has recalled the need to work side by side with Izquierda Unida, the other member of the union that intends to lead Yolanda Díaz to be the first president of the Government.

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