The Spanish Juan Carlos Monedero , former advisor to the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and a founder of the anti-liberal party Podemos, announced Thursday his resignation from the direction of training admitting tensions in the party now prepares its electoral program.
The first great crisis of the training takes place at a time when the latter, having been a meteoric rise since its inception in January 2014, began to lose ground in the polls less than a month of a regional and municipal elections seen as a test for the legislative end of the year.
Now go as Citizens, center-right party on the rise, the heels or even ahead. “I have submitted my friend Paul (Church) in the direction resignation,” said Monedero , referring to the general secretary of the training. “We continue to stand my friendship with someone as big and commitment can,” he said.
However, a few hours earlier had made harsh criticism of the training, founded by a group of professors of political science antiglobalization, recently moderated its proposals coming from the center.
“We have to recover (…) the freshness that leads them to be born and we need to pay more attention (…) what gave rise that the place where we want to go “, launched in an interview with the Radiocable web.
” I am convinced that we have to stop looking in mirrors that are not theirs, “he added causing a stir in social networks, where party members, some arising from the movement of ‘outraged’, are very active.
“We can fall course in this kind of problems because longer has time to meet with a small circle, because what is most important television one minute or more importantly what will amount to collective strategy? “, launched
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The formation recorded a meteoric rise since birth, arriving with five deputies in the European Parliament in May 2014 and making up 27.5% of voting intentions in the polls in January, ahead of the conservative Popular Party (PP, in power) and the opposition Socialist Party.
This set off alarm bells in the two formations that alternate in power since the democratic transition and since then we skimp on attacks and figures as Wallet .
“sense of reality”
Number three in the party and one of its greatest ideologues, Wallet , 52, he had been Chavez adviser from 2004 until his death in 2013. Earlier this year he was criticized in Spain for having collected 425 000 euros from the Bank of Alba for the preparation of an economic report.
In a public appearance I had to deny in February that such funds would serve to finance can, which would be illegal. But he was also accused of having tried to pay less tax to the Treasury by declaring by a company, because in Spain the corporate tax rate is lower than that of individuals.
Despite his explanations, some militants repeatedly they are calling for his resignation. “Of course there is a tension within can, not only in the direction” had recognized Radiocable. Iglesias confirmed the differences. “For months I have been talking to him that somehow our organization close to Juan Carlos perhaps remained,” he told reporters.
“I do not share some of the thoughts that did this morning but that does not change it will be enormously valuable insights, “he said underlining its ability to” put the nail on the head “. “Critical sting is a must for me and I think essential for us as a political formation,” he said.
For Ramon Lobo, author of a book on political science professor, more leftist wing pillar Party and one of its most experienced members, Wallet “is the political brain he can”, told AFP. However, “has meaning only from the case of Finance,” he adds.
According to this expert, the rapid rise in the polls can participate tensions. “We have lost the sense of reality,” he says. “They have believed that they can govern” although they “lack a lot yet.”
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