Pablo Iglesias comes to the aid of Podemos in the Community of Madrid to prevent its institutional disappearance by firing all his artillery against Más Madrid and Manuela Carmena, whom he presented as a "comfortable left", submissive to the interests of power and that allows itself to be "bought" with "minutes of television" in front of a Podemos that is "brave" and does not bow to anything.

"Being a coward for what has he served in Madrid?" hit the former secretary general of Podemos in reference to Más Madrid. It was at the end of his speech when he ended up responding and pronouncing sentence: "Cowardice is defeat assured."

Iglesias returned to give a rally in Madrid two years later, in a last attempt to save the electoral options of Alejandra Jacinto (Community of Madrid) and Roberto Sotomayor (City Council), where they run the risk of not reaching the minimum threshold to enter. This Friday he will do the same in Valencia by Héctor Illueca and Pilar Lima.

Before several hundred people who packed the Espacio Rastro, in Madrid, and playing with the idea of making a script for a television series, Iglesias took his harshest version to defend that the presence of Podemos is "essential for certain changes to occur." "Would Manuela Carmena, Ada Colau, the municipal governments of Galicia, Kichi and all the results that were in those municipal elections [of 2015] also in Zaragoza have been possible? I think not and those who ruled there also know that they don't," he said.

On a day in which Más Madrid published a video in which it receives the support of the former mayor of Madrid for the 28-M and that she wanted to reinforce herself as the continuator of her legacy, Iglesias counterattacked with harsh criticism against her. He stressed that when there was "Podemos engine" Carmena "was mayor" in the city but that she ceased to be when "between Florentino Pérez and a few" more they told her to "get out of the way" to the purple party. "Then the right recovered the City Council of Madrid," he reproached the former councilor. Likewise, he presented her submissive to the interests of the powerful when he reproached her for having accepted the 'Chamartín operation' "with the opposition of Podemos and IU".

Iglesias presented the story that only Podemos exercises "courage" and that is why it suffers "all the media violence in this world", because it is the one who really makes the "mafia" "nervous" and airs corruption. "That's what they fear from Podemos," he said in contrast to a "comfortable left" that can "buy" Florentino Pérez. "But Podemos cannot be bought and that's why they crush it," he concluded.

He added that "if Podemos is not painting the face" of the corrupt and pointing to the "mafia" and the media that form a "criminal structure of sewers" in Spain "there would be no progress" nor would anyone tell the "truth". "You don't buy me with minutes of television in La Sexta or with your media power," he said, concluding with the phrase that cowardice "is defeat assured."

"Would Yolanda Diaz exist?"

Iglesias stressed that it was Podemos in "absolute solitude" who managed to break the arm of the PSOE to have a coalition government and that thanks to that laws such as Housing or Equality are achieved. And he left messages for the leader of Sumar about who owes his current position. "Would Yolanda Díaz exist if she were simply a parliamentarian?"; "Would it have been possible to have a Minister of Labor who for the first time did not work for the bosses if Podemos had not pressed until the end receiving all the media violence of this world?" recalled the unofficial leader of Podemos.

He also left other errands. "We do not want to look like the PSOE and we have a different country project," he claimed. Also, in veiled reference to style, tones and noise, he emphasized his differences with Diaz assuring that the Government "is not a place to distribute smiles, but it is a combat territory when you govern with a party with which you have deep ideological differences." "The government is there to defend interests and not to distribute hugs," he stressed.

For the rest, the return of Iglesias to a rally in Madrid served to underpin many of the messages of Podemos this campaign with attacks on Isabel Díaz Ayuso and her brother for "corrupt", José Luis Martínez-Almeida for "pelele" of the powerful or Florentino Pérez for handling the strings. In addition to the usual onslaught against journalists and media.

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