Dirty clothes are always better washed at home. The show of these last days between Podemos and Sumar is doing a disservice to the cause they represent. I don’t know if it was a good idea for Yolanda DÃaz to go to Jordi Évole’s interview at La Sexta, and I have my doubts that the media overrepresentation of Pablo Iglesias, in social networks and in his radio collaborations, do no good The founder of Podem has a great communicative ability and yesterday as a talk show with Jordi Basté on RAC1 he demonstrated all his skills in trying to dismantle DÃaz’s theses, but the final result leaves a bitter taste for those supporters of the left the left of the PSOE. Iglesias complained that some public media do not give him the ball when at the same time his general secretary, Ione Belarra, was being interviewed by RNE.
This fight reminds us of the one that once existed between Iglesias himself and Ãñigo Errejón, which caused the latter to leave to create Més PaÃs. A personalistic battle that has impoverished the electoral possibilities of the lilacs. If Sumar and Podemos went separately they could get more votes, but the arithmetic distribution of the D’Hondt law would leave them with fewer seats. In this regard, do not miss the interesting article by our specialist in demoscopy, Carles Castro, who places the confrontation between DÃaz and Iglesias, or to paraphrase the ex-Podemite leader, between DÃaz and Belarra, as fundamental for Pedro Sánchez to retain the their majority in the general elections at the end of the year. It’s all very simple: if Sumar and Podemos go together, they can get 40 seats and this would allow the PSOE to be closer to a majority sufficient to govern.
The first elections on the calendar are the municipal and regional elections on 28-M and here already there will be competing candidacies from Podemos against some of the confluences that may end in the unitary candidacy of Sumar. So it doesn’t look like this media noise can end so easily. This fight will not have a clear winner, but, depending on how it develops in the coming weeks, it can only end up with losers. And in return, the one who loses the most is Sánchez. Rather than adding, they could subtract.
