The Vice President of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, will announce on April 2 her intention to run in the next general elections. A step forward that, although expected, will remove the political space to the left of the PSOE a few days before some local and regional elections that will decide the color of many governments and will become a first round of the general elections. Tensions with Podemos have already increased in recent weeks with cross statements and attempts to get the visible head of Sumar to close an agreement with the purples before 28M.
A context that could be decisive, since the electoral behavior of the parties to the left of the PSOE will be key to the continuity of many progressive executives in Spain.
In the Valencian Community, Sumar seems to convince Compromís more than Podem, which until now had been very favorable to unity with Díaz “as a candidate”. In fact, both Vice President Héctor Illueca and the regional coordinator, Pilar Lima, attended the platform’s listening act in Valencia. However, the tensions at the state level could have cooled the good relationship between Illueca and the one who was his boss in the Ministry of Labor.
Podem sources argued to La Vanguardia the importance of “not personalizing political debates” and warned that “a country project without an organized project rooted in the territory behind it makes no sense.”
Without wanting to argue either, they pointed out that they are now focused on the 28M electoral struggle and, when asked if they would like to receive Díaz’s support in the campaign, they answered: “We hope that the significant people of our political space come to give us support in the Campaign”.
Along these lines, sources from the formation in the Valencian Community, in reference to Díaz’s words this weekend, pointed out that “it is not enough to say that 90% of the program is in agreement” but that there is to finalize the project and take a position on issues that may be controversial. “You have to define a project and, later, decide on the organizational tools to carry it out,” they emphasized.
To which they added, “if a synthesis is not possible, the agreement can be closed with the primaries.” A whole series of darts to the movements and positions of the vice president and leader of Sumar.
Statements that contrast with those made yesterday by the Compromís candidate, Joan Baldoví, who said he was “absolutely in agreement” with Díaz that to add, you have to work “without pressure or impositions.” The candidate for the Valencian coalition, who seems to have gotten along with the vice president of the Government, assured that in order to reach agreements it is necessary to do so with “love, respect and if possible with a smile.”
Although Compromís viewed Díaz’s project with great suspicion at first, the fact that it was circumscribed at the state level and left free ground for him in the autonomous communities has ended up bringing the coalition closer.
