{"id":399148,"date":"2024-10-21T18:36:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/10\/21\/podemos-ultimatum-governo-sanchez-psoe\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T20:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T18:07:04","slug":"spanish-lefts-ultimatum-to-sanchez-cease-relations-with-israel-or-we-leave-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/10\/21\/spanish-lefts-ultimatum-to-sanchez-cease-relations-with-israel-or-we-leave-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish left’s ultimatum to S\u00e1nchez: “Cease relations with Israel or we leave government”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – As the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East<\/strong> continues to worsen, the Spanish left is pointing the finger at one of Europe’s few remaining socialist prime ministers, Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>, accusing him of not doing enough to distance his government<\/strong> from the military escalation wanted by Israel<\/strong> and, domestically, of not taking sufficiently incisive measures to contrast the housing crisis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For days now, the secretary of the far-left Podemos<\/strong> party, Ione Belarra<\/strong>, has been targeting the centre-left government of Premier Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>, leader of the Socialist Party (PSOE)<\/strong> and head of the executive since 2018. Last Saturday (Oct. 19), she declared that Podemos no longer considers itself an organic part of the coalition executive<\/strong>\u00a0but that her party’s support will have to be negotiated from time to time. When the third S\u00e1nchez<\/strong> government took office in November 2023, the party was in coalition with Sumar<\/strong>, the other main formation of the Spanish radical left, which is currently PSOE’s only majority partner. Last December, Podemos “divorced” Sumar\u00a0while still guaranteeing the\u00a0external support<\/strong> of its four deputies<\/strong> to the centre-left executive (which stands, not to collapse, on a number of smaller forces, including the Catalan and Basque<\/strong> independentists) and which has a slim majority of 179 deputies out of the required 176.<\/p>\n

However, over time, Podemos\u00a0has become increasingly stinging in his criticism of the government<\/strong>, which he considers too unambitious<\/strong> in defending the most vulnerable sections of society. In exchange for voting in favour of the budget bill for 2025<\/strong>, Belarra has asked<\/a> thus to break diplomatic and trade relations with Israel<\/strong> (branded a “genocidal state”) and to implement drastic measures to address the housing crisis gripping the country<\/strong>, such as a legal lowering of the cost of rent by 40 per cent<\/strong>, a ban on the purchase of non-residential housing, and the dismantling of groups such as Desokupa <\/i>(called a “squad commando”), which use coercive methods to evict illegally occupied properties.<\/p>\n

On Monday (Oct. 21), it\u00a0kicked it up a notch, announcing that it\u00a0will let its\u00a0electoral base<\/strong> express itself through a consultation that will open on Tuesday and close on Oct. 27. Belarra criticized the PSOE as “corrupt” and accused it, as well as former Equality Minister Irene Montero<\/strong>, of pursuing policies similar to those of the centre-right\u00a0Partido Popular<\/strong> (PP), especially in certain areas such as the management of migration flows. The co-founder of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias<\/strong>, has called for unity among all parliamentary forces to the left of the PSOE to force<\/a> the premier to break relations with the Jewish state.<\/p>\n

Podemos\/i> is trying to revive the radical left even at the European level<\/strong>, calling on the various formations of this political galaxy to join forces<\/strong> because “together we can change everything, even stop” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/strong>, whose disproportionate response to the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks he criticizes. The two MEPs from Podemos<\/i> have recently merged into the newly born<\/a> European party, the<\/i> European Left Alliance for Planet and People<\/em><\/strong> (ELA),\u00a0<\/em>an offshoot of The Left<\/i><\/i>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Podemos leadership is cornering Madrid’s executive chief, threatening to withdraw its parliamentary support unless it changes course in its relations with Tel Aviv and in handling the housing crisis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7876,"featured_media":399078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[25890,26313,27709,29442,28891,26870],"class_list":["post-399148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-israel-en","tag-pedro-sanchez-en","tag-podemos-en-2","tag-onpsoe","tag-spain-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399148"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399168,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399148\/revisions\/399168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}