Sumar rules out Belarra’s intervention Tuesday during Albares’ appearance before Congress’ plenary session on Middle East conflict

It was noted that Ione Belarra, Secretary General of Podemos, was instructed to intervene this morning in the comparison of the Minister of Exteriors, José Manuel Albares, before the Pleno of the Congress to explain the position of the Gobierno on the situation of Gaza, Israel and Middle East. In his place, it will be Agustín Santos Maraver, former Spanish ambassador to the United Nations and Yolanda Díaz’s trusted person, who will carry out this task, as parliamentary sources confirmed to EL PAÍS.
Podemos, which has been highly critical of the government’s position after the conflict escalated on October 7, made its request public to the group’s spokesperson, Marta Lois, last week. In recent weeks, Belarra has demanded from President Pedro Sánchez “consistency, concrete actions and effective decisions to stop Netanyahu”, in addition to suspending diplomatic relations with Israel, stopping buying weapons from that country, sanction the Israeli prime minister and his political leadership, and bring Netanyahu before the International Criminal Court. The party, which was excluded from the executive during this legislature, highlighted that this would be the first intervention by a Podemos deputy in plenary session since the elections of 23-J. “Until now, no representative of this party has been able to intervene in the successive investiture debates – where deputies from other parties also integrated into the Sumar parliamentary group spoke – nor in the rest of the plenary sessions”, denounced party sources. . .