Ione Belarra (Pamplona, 38 years old) wears a Palestinian pendant around her neck. She looks relaxed and relaxed. Nothing seems to upset her this muggy morning, in which the heat seeps into every corner of the Podemos headquarters, an office building without any sign on the street to preserve security. However, a week ago he made a political decision only for the most reckless. As Pablo Iglesias did in her day, the general secretary of Podemos and former minister with the Government of Pedro Sánchez leaves national politics to face Isabel Díaz Ayuso at the polls. Iglesias failed and ended up leaving politics. Belarra is aware of this somersault that many would not dare to take, especially in the midst of the party’s difficulty in finding new voters, but she defends that being part of the movement that ended the two-party system in Spain means being willing to lose everything. It sounds epic, but Belarra says it like someone who announces that she is going to put a parking ticket on the car. Today nothing seems to upset him.
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