Podemos has singled out Alberto Rodríguez as solely responsible for the decision to file a complaint against the president of Congress, Meritxell Batet, despite the fact that it was the party itself that announced it last Friday as its own when the Court's ruling was executed. Supreme Court and the seat was withdrawn.

"Obviously this is a decision of Alberto Rodríguez, it always has been, and what we have done is accept the decision," said the national co-spokesperson of Podemos, Isa Serra, at a press conference. That announcement to sue Batet caused an earthquake within the PSOE, the coalition government and also United We Can.

After a very intense weekend in communications between the members of the PSOE and United We Can on this matter, in which there have been public displays of support for Batet by the socialist leaders, Podemos has now chosen to distance itself from that complaint that, finally, will not be filed in court.


The new strategy is to corner Batet by unloading all the pressure on her and demanding her "resignation" for a matter of "dignity". And the fact is that the spokesmen of Podemos accuse her of perpetrating "an attack on democracy."

This plan against Batet, in which Pablo Iglesias is also participating as a battering ram from his new speakers, maintains that by obeying the Supreme Court he has committed an "outrage" and a "outrage" that "is unparalleled."

Beyond that attack on Batet, Podemos is now trying to justify everything that surrounds his announcement to sue the president of Congress for prevarication.

The entanglement is huge because the party ended up backing down and Alberto Rodríguez announced that he was leaving the militancy.

In addition, Yolanda Díaz and Alberto Garzón avoided supporting the judicial offensive against Batet, which leaves Ione Belarra even more in question.

Part by part.

During the press conference after the Executive, held this Monday, Isa Serra and Pablo Fernández have pointed out Alberto Rodríguez at all times as the promoter of the lawsuit against Batet.

Just as they also blame him for finally not showing up.

"If Alberto Rodríguez has changed his criteria and has a different legal team and a different judicial strategy and does not want to file the complaint, we respect and support him," said Fernández.

The account of the events that Podemos does is that he had expressed his desire to act against Batet if he removed the seat but it is insisted that the complaint was going to be the former deputy and "never" of the party. "We never said that the complaint was going to be presented by United We Can," said Fernández. A statement that clashes with the communication that the purple formation made to the press last Friday in which it spoke in the plural and did not say at any time that it was going to be a personal action. Now it is argued that "active legitimacy" only fell on Rodríguez and that the only thing Podemos was going to do was "support" the decision.

The first to distance himself from that complaint was Alberto Garzón, IU leader, who on Saturday reduced the lawsuit to a "personal" issue. It is a position that generated enormous anger within the purple ranks. But, in addition, Yolanda Díaz's silence in this matter during the weekend has also been devastating for Podemos.



It has been stated that the complaint was announced without the knowledge of the entire United We Can space. Serra and Fernández have denied it and assured that those responsible for the coalition and the 35 congressmen knew about it. "As it is a decision that belongs to Alberto Rodríguez, what is done is to transfer his decision and his will to the confederal space, which is made available to Alberto's will to sue Batet," said Serra, who he has explicitly stated that they all knew.



In the midst of these confusing events, it happens that Alberto Rodríguez announces that he is leaving Podemos and his membership in the party. "One must know cycles," he said. In addition, it dispenses with the party lawyer Marta Flor Núñez to choose Gonzalo Boye and Isabel Elbal, lawyers for Carles Puigdemont, to appeal his sentence in the Strasbourg Court.



The spokesmen for Podemos have acknowledged that Rodríguez had not announced that he was going to leave the purple formation, but they have stressed that he respects them "completely." Thus, the party that Ione Belarra now heads has expressed that it will be supporting the decisions it takes at all times because Podemos "will always be the home" of the former Canarian deputy. "We were going to support and will support the decisions that it deems most appropriate, "they have settled.



On the other hand, and after days of silence in this regard, Yolanda Díaz has referred to this matter for the first time to wish Rodríguez "the best of luck" and express her "affection."

However, in contrast to her group's offensive against Batet, she has avoided confrontation and blaming Batet.

He has only said that it is an "injustice" that he has lost the seat.

Not a word to ask for his resignation.

More coordinated with his party has been Pablo Iglesias, who has demanded the departure of Batet.

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