A few days after the start of the electoral campaign, the party led by Ione Belarra has presented its framework program for the elections municipal and regional governments on May 28.
In their electoral plan, which the purples describe as “solid and comprehensive”the public is extolled as the shield of the middle and working classes, since through this “people can be protected”.
With the ideology of the public in the background, the Podemos program goes through creating public real estate to lower prices, as announced a few weeks ago by the candidate of the formation for the presidency of the Community of Madrid, Alejandra Jacinto.
In addition, the training proposes the creation of public supermarkets that allow prices to fall in a context in which inflation is out of control. Months ago, the purple ones already proposed capping the prices of food so that the large supermarket chains do not continue to become “golden” while families have to face a shopping basket that “does not stop going up.”
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This situation occurs, they argue from Podemos, because the large chains “operate in a quasi-oligopoly situation, with a 40% of the market share in the hands of just three companies.” “The existence of public operators powerful enough to compete face to face with the large private supermarkets would, in colloquial terms, make them run out of bargains, being able to offer lower prices to families and more dignified working conditions to workers and workers, as well as better prices for small and medium-sized agricultural producers and local ranchers,” the plan reads.
In this line, Ione Belarra made reference to this proposal on Sunday, in an act in Valencia, charging against the owner of the supermarket company Mercadona: “We need a public supermarket company called ‘fair prices‘, that allows us to lower prices, protect small and medium agricultural and livestock producers and that allows us to face the food oligopoly. In this country there is a food oligopoly and the boss in charge is Mr. Juan Roig”said the leader of United We Can.
In the same text, the purple formation also proposes one of its historical demands: the creation of a guaranteed minimum income among 700 and the 1,400 euros to each citizen from the age of majority, an amount that would fluctuate depending on the number of members of each family unit. Podemos maintains that this salary supplement can always be requested when no more than 2,100 euros are earned per month during the three months prior to the request.
In terms of mobility, the training led by the Minister of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda proposes universal public transport free of charge, with the aim of creating a green alternative to the mobility of citizens and fulfilling its commitment to the fight against climate change.
The real estate and public supermarkets join the proposals to create a public banking or pharmaceutical companies or telecommunications that depend on the administrations. In addition to including, among other issues, measures to eradicate sexist violence.
The presentation of the electoral program comes at a complicated electoral moment in which the surveys do not augur good results for training. However, in some places like Valencia they are essential for the revalidation of the left-wing government headed by Ximo Puig. In Madrid, for his part, if Podemos achieves representation in the Madrid Assembly, Ayuso would not be able to reach an absolute majority.
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