We left dome founder and complaint betrayed – The Nation Costa Rica

Madrid

Juan Carlos Monedero, one of the founders of the emerging Spanish training Can we left on Thursday the party leadership after two months of controversy over his past as adviser to the Venezuelan government of Hugo Chavez.

Hours before the resignation, Wallet publicly criticized the strategy of his fellow an interview. Wallet said he felt betrayed and accused can copy some bad forms of traditional parties they try to replace.

Wallet, 52, is a political scientist and professor at the Complutense University Madrid. F UNDO can with his current leader Pablo Iglesias just over a year. The formation of the left has shaken the Spanish political scene. Surveys can situate as the second force in voting intentions in the general elections scheduled for later this year.

“I have submitted my friend Paul (Iglesias) resignation in direction, “Wallet wrote in his Twitter account. “They keep strong my friendship with someone as big and commitment can.”

tax controversy. Wallet output is first major internal earthquake can. The Spanish political scientist was involved in a high-profile controversy when the press revealed that he had filed a supplementary tax by an advisory work related to Chavez in 2010.

Wallet said then that I had not evaded tax and the supplementary declaration was to dispel any hint of suspicion. Wallet admitted that he had claimed 425,000 euros ($ 476,390) for a study on the hypothetical implementation of a common currency in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua.

No one has been charged for tax fraud . But the case affected the image of Wallet, who spent appearing in several television programs daily to not comment. The former leader of Podemos said this week it did not look as deputy and shortly before resigning openly criticized his party and revealed tensions within the leadership on strategy.

We, who has moderating his speech in recent months, it has its first big real test to the polls in regional and municipal elections on May 24. The match was the third most votes in the regional elections in Andalusia in March, which won the Socialists. We can then admitted that the result was not as good as they expected.