The inside story of Vice President Yolanda Díaz’s campaign for the May elections is an x-ray of the fragility of alliances in the space of the left. The leader of Sumar has had to dodge mutual vetoes and ultimatums to set up a calendar of events with which she will finally fully commit to the 28-M campaign, despite the fact that Sumar is not running, to support the governments of the left and stop any advance from the right. Almost twenty events in eleven autonomous communities, this is Díaz’s busy calendar in which three places are particularly relevant: Barcelona, ​​Valencia and Madrid.

Díaz communicated his calendar yesterday and the appointments in the Valencian Community, Madrid and Catalonia stand out, territories where space is played by an advance of the right that some believe would foreshadow the framework of the generals. In the first case, the vice-president will participate in two events during the campaign, the first in Alicante, with the Valencian vice-president and candidate of Unides Podem, Héctor Illueca, and the second in the capital of Turia, an event by the City Commission- Port in which the mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó, of Compromís, will participate, but also the rest of the space on the left, including the candidate of Podemos, Esquerra Unida and Aliança Verda, Pilar Lima, the possibilities of the which to access the alderman’s minutes, according to previous polls, are very few. These two acts in the Valencian Community seal the commitment of the leader of Sumar with the agreement of the Botanic, which is headed by the socialist Ximo Puig, and with the revalidation of the majority of leftists in the Valencian fief, one of the pieces most coveted by the PP for 28- M. The growing mutual tension between the space of Compromís, after the abandonment of Mónica Oltra’s politics, and that of Podemos, IU and the rest of the organizations of the left with Podemos at the head , has meant an added difficulty for Díaz’s participation in the Valencian campaign, especially after Podem’s veto of his candidacy for Magariños, which did have the support of Joan Baldoví.

It has not been much easier to fit the acts of the Madrid campaign, in which Unides Podemos is playing for its life in the confrontation of the 5% – as in Valencia, the entrance threshold to both the regional Parliament and the City Council – and where More Madrid, which is hegemonic in the space to the left of the PSOE, has also expressed its commitment to Sumar’s general candidacy. The vice-president will start the campaign on May 10 in the Madrid city of Alcorcón, one of the strong candidacies of Unides Podemos, with Jesús Santos at the helm, who is also the general coordinator of Podemos in the community. Given the urgency of promoting the candidacies of Unides Podemos for the mayor of Madrid, headed by Roberto Sotomayor, and for the regional presidency, with Alejandra Jacinto as number one, both today slightly above the 5% threshold, and essential to stop the consolidation of the PP, but without disparaging the candidates of Més Madrid, Rita Maestre and Mónica García, on May 15, the feast of Sant Isidre, Yolanda Díaz will go to the Prat de Sant Isidre where what happened could be repeated saw last year, that the vice president accompanied Jacinto, but also shared a few minutes with the leaders of Més Madrid. In any case, that same day he will take part in a campaign event in Rivas-Vaciamadrid, the largest city where he governs the confluence area after Barcelona, ​​despite the fact that at the last moment and with an agreement already closed, Podemos left of the unit application.

And of course, Díaz will participate in the Catalan campaign, the only territory in the confederal space pacified a priori and where there are no tensions between potential members of Sumar. In fact, he will be there on four occasions, on the 12th and 13th of May (it will be in Montcada and Barcelona), on the 20th of May and, finally, on the 26th, when he will close the campaign in Barcelona, ​​with Ada Colau.

These watermarks, which include acts in 11 autonomous communities and which have consumed the energies of Sumar and the multilateral negotiation in recent weeks, not only respond to the commitment announced weeks ago by Díaz to help stop any right-wing advance, but look keep the links alive with all the forces that Sumar aims to bring together in the second half of the year, before the general elections. Above all, after the tension generated by Podemos’ boycott of the Magariños event on April 2.

No one renounces in advance a unitary candidacy or wants to be singled out as the one who made it impossible.