The mountain gave birth to a mouse. The agonizing wait to resolve the integration of Podemos in Sumar –marked by a plebiscite to the bases, registration of a new party and requiem for Irene Montero– was resolved yesterday when the general secretary, Ione Belarra, announced that the purples would integrate into Sumar, delivering the head of the Minister of Equality. But the narrative arc of Poncio Pilatos was fulfilled until the washing of hands: the general secretary assured that it was “Yolanda DÃaz’s team” that vetoed the presence of Montero and, with the yes in front, asked the vice president for arnica for a “fair deal” It did not work, the negotiation was exhausted and the fate of Podemos sealed.
The strange announcement of the surrender of Podemos – which introduced even more melodrama in the confluence operation, discouraging the vote – made transparent, deep down, the tremendous internal conflict of Podemos, between the mandate of integration of the territorial directorates (state citizen council) and the resistance of the executive (coordinating council) to sign the agreement without guaranteeing the political future of its main leaders. In the negotiation, as usual, there were crossed vetoes, since Podemos tried until the last moment that his deputy Txema Guijarro, distanced from the party leadership for many months, was not on any list.
Despite the fact that Belarra assured that Sumar’s offer could leave Podemos “out of the Congress of Deputies”, the truth is that the purples have at least 13 first places in as many constituencies, in addition to the fourth for Barcelona and the fifth for Madrid on the lists for the generals, which should guarantee, in the worst case, seven minutes for the purple ones. Podemos said at noon that it was waiting for a new offer from Sumar that would rectify the exclusion of Montero so as not to have to “wait for the last minute”, but neither of these two things happened: there was no new offer and the firm closed. occurred around 8:00 p.m. After 8:30 p.m., “the greatest agreement between progressive and green forces in the history of Spanish democracy” was recorded, they reported from the Sumar platform, which brings together almost all state and territorial leftist formations: Sumar Movement, IU, Podemos, Más Madrid, Más PaÃs, CompromÃs, Alianza Verde, Equo, Més per Mallorca, Més per Menorca, Batxarre, Proyecto Drago, Chunta Aragonesista, Izquierda Asturiana and Iniciativa del Pueblo Andaluz.
Among the Podemos deputies who have a confirmed starting position, the leader Ione Belarra will be number five for Madrid; the organization secretary, Lilith Verstrynge, number four for Barcelona; MEP Idoia Villanueva, number one for Navarra; Deputy Javier Sánchez Serna, for Murcia; Deputy Pilar Garrido, for Gipuzkoa; Roberto Uriarte, for Ãlava; Noemà Santana, for Las Palmas, and Martina Velarde, for Granada.
Despite the dramatic staging of the general secretary of Podemos at noon, after receiving the support of 93% of those registered who voted in the consultation – more than 52,000 militants – to resolve the negotiation, there were no subsequent movements between the negotiating teams and the agreement remained in the terms in which Belarra had promised his signature.
Sumar explained in a press release that the agreement “reflects the effort and generosity of very diverse political forces and constitutes the first step to build an exciting, feminist and winning project that always puts social and climate justice at the center , with the world of work insideâ€. The wording confirms the character of a New Labor platform that DÃaz has wanted to imprint on the project since the “listening process†began.
The question, in any case, is whether the firm will be able to heal the wounds that have occurred during the process, from the ordeal launched by the leadership of Podemos at the last Autumn University to the dramatic sacrifice of Irene Montero staged yesterday by Belarra, going through the plant of Podemos to the rest of the members of Sumar in the act of last April 2 in Magariños. In any case, the resolution was facilitated by the situation of extraordinary weakness of Podemos after the elections of 28-M
The moment and the way in which Podemos has finally agreed to the integration -with an emotional requiem, yesterday, of its main political assets in social networks for the departure of Irene Montero-, casts the doubt on whether the alliance will operate the massive mobilization of vote of the left that the polls predicted for Sumar months ago, before this long, grumpy and agonizing tug of war, which has landed with battered wings, where it had been expected for two years now.
