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Pablo Iglesias argues that the right is "articulating from Madrid a coup d'état" aimed, among other things, at outlawing Bildu and destroying Unidas Podemos. "A very precise political strategy," he says, led by the right wing of the capital and exported to the rest of the autonomous communities, "where the right is madrileñizing."

The former vice-president of the Government has participated this morning in a campaign event of Unidas Podemos in Palma, at the headquarters of the CCOO union. Iglesias has come to clothe the three local candidates of the formation of which he was secretary general and on which he continues to exert a palpable influence after his departure from the coalition government.

In a 20-minute speech in which he has cited himself reading an article of his published two years ago, Iglesias has barely addressed the social reality of the Balearic Islands, beyond citing the Islands as one of the territories where the purple formation got better results in the last elections. Although he has put it as an example of a Spain that, in his argumentation, is opposed to Madrid.

Fundamentally, he has focused his speech on alluding to what he identifies as "the Madrid mafia", to which he attributes a plan to "cement an ultra-reactionary power" at the head of the State that would outlaw parties such as Bildu or those that agglutinate the Catalan independence movement.

In his opinion, this Madrid model is the one that wants to be imposed on the rest of the regions. And, therefore, he added, "it is so important to vote for Unidas Podemos in the next regional elections of 28-M", because "Spain is not Madrid and we must tell the coup right that Spain is not that".

"ETA is their excuse"

Iglesias accuses the PP and Vox of using ETA in this alleged strategy. "What's wrong with the right with ETA? You talk to them about housing policies and they say: 'ETA', you ask them what happens with the privatization of health and they say: 'ETA!', if you talk about corruption they say 'ETA, ETA, ETA'... everything is ETA." Next, the founder of Podemos has asked rhetorically: "Are they crazy? Maybe they're not so crazy, they know exactly what they're doing."

The politician, who has put forward that now his role is not to be in rallies but to dedicate himself to activism in the media, considers that the right of Madrid discovered that the basis of its power goes through the destruction of Podemos and that in the campaign it uses Bildu as an "excuse".

"The emergence of Podemos is a permanent reminder that Spain is not Madrid," he added, "and forces the PSOE to do what it never wants to do on its own because the PSOE would have preferred to govern with C's, alone or reach agreements with the PP." According to his speech, the PSOE has "no choice" but to govern with Podemos.

In his speech, Iglesias has attacked the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, saying that he has folded to that Madrid "mafia" that "served Casado's head on a platter." And, alluding to the Desokupa company, he has come to argue that in Spain "we are returning to a time when gangs of neo-Nazi squad players will go after the poor and crush the trade unionists when they are on strike."

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