What is it for Podemos

The Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, in the IV Assembly of Podemos before the vote to replace Pablo Iglesias.Fernando Alvarado / EFE

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The right wing dedicated itself to forming bubble groups on Sunday, but not out of fear of the coronavirus like the children at school, but because they would be photographed together in Colón.

The left, meanwhile, tried to take flight from the last blows through the Sanchista victory in Andalusia and the new stage in Podemos.

Nothing to object to anyone.

Good time to reflect.

And so that they ask themselves, or we wonder, what they are for.

Podemos has long served to push the PSOE to the left, a party with strong social advances, yes, but if possible free. As soon as it is left alone, the socialist party folds, lacks economically and its governments are not immune to the brutal job insecurity that has settled in Spain, to the growing inequality, to the fall in resources in health and education and to the absence of a productive model driven by research and science. In everything it has suspended, and look that we have been saying it for years.

Inequality in Spain, which was already higher than the European and OECD average, shot up in 2008 after the recession and has reached unbearable levels of exclusion for a large part of the population.

In 2014 we were the most unequal in the eurozone together with Latvia and Greece.

But it is that in 2019, far from the recession, we were only better than Lithuania, Latvia and Romania, according to Eurostat.

What is dramatic is that this inequality has grown with the governments of the PSOE (2004-2011) and the PP (2011-2018) with a shameful similarity for those of us who still believe in ideologies.

We already know that in the current phase of capitalism growth does not guarantee a reduction in poverty, but that is where policies should serve to try.

The presence of Podemos in the Government has forced the PSOE to move in that direction, but at this rate the turn of the United States will end up being more useful than the parsimony of this coalition. The plan to limit the price of rents has jammed and its replacement has not arrived in time. Not for the man who committed suicide this week in Barcelona when they came to evict him or for the OECD to make us look more handsome in the photo. This week's reminded that Spain is at the bottom in public spending on housing.

The court that sets and networks have become has been wild for Pablo Iglesias and the noise has clouded any assessment of his role, full of chiaroscuro. But his party and others that emerged after 15-M are vital so that this country does not advance towards the disappearance of the left that is observed in Europe, but towards its strength. As long as they remember, Podemos and PSOE, who promised us to focus on the fight against inequality. We want to see you there. @bernagharbour