Palm Sunday entered Jerusalem under the palm trees. The vice-president Yolanda DÃaz announced yesterday that she will run for the presidency of the central government with the express support of all the leftists of the so-called “space of change”, with the exception of the Podemos leadership. The training executive decided to boycott the act of what until yesterday was, according to her words, “our candidate”, because she has not agreed to a previous bilateral agreement on the lists.
“I will take a step forward: I want to be the first president of my country, the first president of Spain”, announced Yolanda DÃaz at the end of her speech. Minutes earlier he had given hints about the tone of a feminist candidacy and emancipated from tutors. Quoting RosalÃa de Castro, he said: “We don’t belong to anyone. Women do not belong to anyone. And I, as a woman, don’t belong to anyone either. We have to proclaim it because it seems that today we still have to carry a preposition ‘of’ attached to our name that marks what our adhesions are and what our debts are”. The allusion seemed to have an obvious recipient, the ex-leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, who in his communicative hyperactivity has been giving indications of what to do and how for months. “We are fed up with tutelage. Very fed up”, he said.
DÃaz spoke in front of more than half a thousand people in a packed Magariños sports complex, where several thousand people (about 3,000) could not get in, who queued all morning, some from early hours, for the inn long from Sumar. The organization set up a playground at the Ramiro de Maeztu school, a neighbor of Magariños, where part of the capacity that could not access the interior of the sports center followed the event on screens.
DÃaz presented herself surrounded by the entire confederal space of Unides Podem and its confluences with the sole exception of the state executive of Podem – several deputies of the parliamentary group, as well as many candidates of the purple party in the municipal and regional elections , they did approach the sports center – and other formations that in 2015 participated in the same political space, such as CompromÃs and Més PaÃs.
DÃaz did not expressly allude to the absence of Podemos, although he reiterated that “Sumar is an open house to all those who want to transform our country and I am convinced that we will continue to add”. And he added that “we are not here to face each other or to occupy an electoral space, but to win a country”.
The mayor of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, the coordinator of IU, Alberto Garzón, the leader of Més PaÃs, Ãñigo Errejón, the candidate of Més Madrid, Mónica GarcÃa, the mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó, the general secretary of the PCE , Enrique Santiago, were some of the politicians who supported DÃaz. Despite the boycott of the Podemos executive, the Sumar event was attended by regional leaders, candidates and deputies such as Antón Gómez-Reyno, Txema Guijarro, Nacho EscartÃn and Daniel Ripa, among others. The Extremadura coordinator of the training, Irene de Miguel, expressed on Twitter what she feels about an important sector of Podemos: “Today everything starts with Sumar” and that despite the fact that “I couldn’t be there today, I’m sure there will be others seasons to be able to meet and continue to transform this country together with courage”.
The event was a success for DÃaz and the political forces that support the Sumar space, with a central role of the communes and IU, and with More Madrid becoming visible near the elections in May. To all of them, with first and last names, DÃaz dedicated individual thanks in his speech, in which he avoided referring to the absence of the Podemos high command.
The threat of two candidacies for the generals is more likely since yesterday, in the same way that, with the planting, it seems that the pretension of Podemos to occupy a hegemonic position in a common space of the left is dissipated. The May elections will be decisive for the pacts to articulate a single platform, because they will reveal the potential that each one has. Yesterday was Palm Sunday, hosannas and acclamations. But today is Monday. Today the Captive is in procession.
