The general coordinator of Izquierda Unida, Alberto Garzón, announced this Tuesday that his formation will contest the general elections on 23-J under the umbrella of the Sumar platform led by Yolanda DÃaz, the same as Alianza Verde and Verdes Equo have done, while Podemos has ten days to decide whether to join the project of the second vice president of the Government, in which the common ones, Más PaÃs and CompromÃs will surely also be present. In this sense, the PSOE asks all left-wing parties to carry out a reflection exercise to prevent the “ultra-conservative wave” that has settled in some countries from reaching Spain as well.
Sumar has opened talks with the forces of the alternative left, including Podemos, to close an electoral coalition with which to contest the elections within a maximum period of ten days, as established by the deadlines for registering coalitions. At the moment, no names or candidacies have been mentioned in the talks that the two parties have held so far.
Podemos has always called for open primaries for the preparation of the lists as a condition for joining the project, but the ten-day period given by the electoral law makes this possibility extremely difficult. In this regard, the former secretary general of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, predicted yesterday that Sumar will not want primaries and regretted that it will be “the plumbers” who negotiate “the lists” that they present in the provinces.
“I wish there were. You have heard me defend here that democratic participation is key,” the former vice president defended in an intervention on Cadena Ser, in which he assured that from Podemos there is “will” to hold primaries in Sumar, although the rest of the formations will tell them that they will not have time to do them “in ten days”.
In a message on social networks, Garzón pointed out that Sumar and Yolanda DÃaz “are the best opportunity” to form “a serious and solvent proposal for a country project.” “The call for general elections asks us to be at the level of our country to defend that we can all have a dignified life and with guaranteed rights, it asks us to recover the initiative and go on the offensive,” he wrote.
For his part, the coordinator of Alianza Verde, the ecological party of Unidas Podemos, Juantxo López de Uralde, reaffirmed this Tuesday his commitment to Sumar as a “necessary condition” for the left to achieve good results in the general elections on July 23, a date on which he trusts that “after the debacle of 28-M many people will wake up” in his electorate and go to vote.
Likewise, the Federal executive of Verdes Equo has decided to join the project with the aim of “there being a progressive and green government”. According to sources from the environmental group, the party leadership endorsed this proposal in a meeting held last night after the president, Pedro Sánchez, called general elections by surprise on July 23 after the socialist disaster and for the left in general in the autonomous communities and municipal on Sunday.
The Minister of Education, Pilar AlegrÃa, in an interview on TVE, has asked the rest of the left-wing parties to also read what happened and reflect on what is happening in many countries around us. She and she have urged them to carry out an exercise in “responsibility and unity” in the face of the upcoming elections to prevent Spain from catching the arrival of far-right parties.
