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Podemos Sets Opposition Course, Says Sánchez Government Feeds the Right

At its Uni de Otoño finale in Madrid, the party mapped a standalone strategy centered on housing policy.

Overview

  • Podemos formalized a roadmap to keep a critical and distant posture toward the Sánchez coalition, positioning itself more as an opposition force than an ally.
  • Ione Belarra argued that a government that does nothing fuels Vox and the PP, crediting 2023 measures linked to Podemos for stopping the right and enabling the current government.
  • The party attacked the coalition’s housing record, branding it a “vulture fund” on housing and singling out Minister Isabel Rodríguez with accusations of revolving-door ambitions.
  • Irene Montero warned that without a strong left after Pedro Sánchez the country could see Santiago Abascal rise, casting Podemos as the necessary alternative to a “moderate” approach.
  • The event featured an explicitly pro-Palestine line, with speakers endorsing “from the river to the sea” and calling for US and Israeli leaders to face jail over alleged crimes in Gaza.