Contrary to what happened in Chernobyl, where thousands of liquidators entered the guts of the nuclear power plant to try to plug the leak of radioactive particles, the combustion of the “irradiator core” of Podemos after Vistalegre II (2017) has burned for years in an uncontrolled way without much effort or sacrifice to prevent it. Shooting all those contaminated particles into the atmosphere so that the dissolution of the last great project of the Spanish left ended up spreading throughout the country with Madrid as the epicenter of its tensions and miseries.
After several minor leaks, the reactor exploded due to the subsequent dispute between Pablo Iglesias and Ãñigo Errejón.
Far from merging, the respective roadmaps of those who were purple secretary general and secretary of Strategic Analysis collided. And their action plans written by four hands such as From Madrid to Heaven, which dealt with the importance of cohesion to extend the growth of Podemos – which since 2015 had several successful ramifications in the city councils of change – towards hypothetical governments, were invalidated. autonomous.
What seemed like a matter to be redirected internally led to a series of public quarrels so bitter that they forced their electorate to take sides in the face of an unfriendly divorce that sowed revenge between them.
In parallel, the inoculated poison began to erode the purple initials throughout the country. And leaders of Asturias, Galicia, Catalonia and Euskadi began to distance themselves from the guidelines set from their respective directions.
The subsequent departure of Errejón towards regional politics together with Manuela Carmena’s Ahora Madrid threatened to stop the drift in January 2019 by placing each other in different spheres. In fact, Podemos renounced to present itself to the municipal elections of Madrid to unite the vote around the former judge. But the continuous retaliation led Iglesias to withdraw his support a few days before the polls, depriving Errejón’s formation of two seats with which he would have retained the mayoralty that remained in the hands of the right.
In 2021, the polls showed the national decomposition of the confederal space that the entry of Podemos into the coalition government had masked. And given the predicted setback, in addition to the harassment towards his leadership, it motivated Pablo Iglesias to decide to lead the lists for Madrid to try to stop the unstoppable PP of Isabel DÃaz Ayuso.
But a new rematch, in this case in the opposite direction, stopped the first attempt at mending. Mónica GarcÃa opted to run separately and under the acronym of Más Madrid, remaining as the second force with the most votes, while Podemos narrowly escaped being left without parliamentary representation, but signed a crash with aftershocks in Euskadi and Galicia that precipitated the exit of Churches of active politics.
With Yolanda DÃaz begins what seems like the last chance to restore the great coalition of the left. CompromÃs or the common ones are in favor of uniting their swords. And there are not a few territorial leaders of Podemos who will attend Sumar’s debut this Sunday.
But the seam will not be resistant without Madrid, where there is still a lack of volunteers to sign the truce of the political space. They are scarce in Podemos, whose leaders have not acknowledged receipt of the invitation. And they threaten not to appear in Más Madrid, where GarcÃa and Errejón currently show more disagreements than synchronies, threatening to perpetuate the combustion of the “radiator core”.