Spanish Left-Wing warns of Folly of New Elections

The left parliamentary group Unidos Podemos (UP) today warned the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) that it would be irresponsible to take the country to new elections for its refusal to share power.

In these terms, the head of the negotiation of UP agreements, Pablo Echenique, commented on the rejection of the PSOE to the proposal presented the day before by his group to negotiate the formation of a joint government.

Interviewed by radio station Onda Cero, Echenique hoped that the leader of the socialists, Pedro Sánchez, would end up rectifying his position and agree to negotiate the new offer, which includes up to four possible ministerial distribution scenarios.

The secretary of Government Action of Podemos - majority force within United Podemos - defended the presence of that confederate group in a hypothetical cabinet to promote measures that improve people's lives.

He insisted that it would be irresponsible and meaningless that the centennial social-democratic organization, led by the current president of the acting Government, leads citizens towards a new election.

In his opinion, the only result that can be expected from a new appointment with the polls is either a strengthening of the right-wing bloc, or that the correlation of forces is maintained as now, with a very fragmented Parliament.

He regretted that to date the strategy of Sánchez, who in July already failed in a first attempt of investiture before his refusal to accept an administration with UP, has been to claim to monopolize 'one hundred percent of power without sharing responsibilities.'

Echenique considered that the Socialists disappoint citizens, because the mandate of the Spaniards in the general elections of April 28 was clear.

'They did not give them an absolute majority, that means co-government, and the proposal we sent yesterday to the PSOE is reasonable and based on what we were negotiating in July,' he said.

Along these lines, he asked the PSOE to abandon the time of tactics and reproaches and sits down to negotiate with his alliance, integrated United Left, Podemos and its territorial confluences.

'People would not understand that Sanchez would take Spain to elections again for wanting to monopolize all power and not share it respecting the verdict of the polls,' the secretary general of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, said yesterday.

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