The Secretary of Organization of Podemos, Lilith Verstrynge, announced this Friday that she is leaving her political responsibilities in the party and her role as a deputy in Congress. According to the EFE agency, the decision was made for health reasons.
The departure has been announced through a message on the social network she.
The general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, was the first to launch a message of support: “Now the most important thing is that you take care of yourself and that you are well. Podemos will always be your home. Thank you for so much work in such difficult conditions. A hug enormous”.
The former Minister of Equality Irene Montero has spoken along the same lines on social networks. “The priority now is you,” she said. “We love you and we will continue walking together,” she wrote. In this way, both leaders seem to point to a health reason as the reason for Verstrynge’s withdrawal, although for now, it has not been officially confirmed.
Podemos is reduced to four deputies
The resignation of the deputy will mean reducing Podemos’s representation in Congress to four seats, which broke with Sumar at the end of December to go to the Mixed Congress. Likewise, it opens the door for the formation led by Yolanda Díaz to win a deputy, which would go from 26 to 27.
As it is a coalition candidacy, since in Sumar’s lists for the general elections of July 23 there were names of all the forces that agreed to run together, such as Sumar, Podemos or the Comunes, in the list of candidates they were combined in different positions of the members of each party.
In this sense, Verstrynge presented himself as number four. Since number five, Eloi Badia, has also won a seat, the baton now passes to the candidate in sixth place, Candela López, former mayor of Castelldefels (Barcelona) and one of the three coordinators of En Comú Podem, along with Ada Colau and Jessica Albiach. However, she is still waiting for her to accept the new position for the announcement to be made officially.
López was one of the prominent names of the now dissolved Initiative for Catalunya Verds (ICV), the same group to which the head of Culture Ernest Urtasun and the executive coordinator of Sumar, Josep Vendrell, also belonged. In short, the new relief comes from the Comuns sector closest to Díaz.
This latest departure in the leadership of the party is joined by those already announced in recent months after the departure of the economist Nacho Álvarez, the former general secretary of Podemos in the Community of Madrid, Jesús Santos, or the deputy in the Madrid Assembly Alejandra Hyacinth.
