The territories and even the bases of Podemos have begun to move demanding from their state leadership the integration of the purple formation, together with the rest of the forces of the political space, on the platform of Yolanda DÃaz, Sumar. While the negotiations continue with the most absolute discretion, and the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, remains silent (beyond repeating that “Podemos has always been for unity”), downstream the organization is in turmoil.
Especially after the week began overheating with the accusation of the former leader of the formation, Pablo Iglesias, against his eventual partners in Más Madrid and CompromÃs, of trying to leave Podemos out of the agreement, an accusation that he extended to a part of his own organization, En Comú Podem, integrated into the governing bodies of Podemos.
The bluff of the state leadership of Podemos, warning that it was exploring other options for generals, such as agreeing with ERC, has done nothing to appease the spirits, and the absence of a call for the state citizen council keeps the territorial leaders of the party in the dark. Thus, this Wednesday, officials and cadres of Podem in the Valencian Community signed a manifesto in which they not only demand the immediate integration into Sumar but also ask for the heads of those responsible for the party in the community for the disastrous results of 28M, specifically the by Pilar Lima and MarÃa Teresa Pérez, among others, report Hèctor San Juan and Enrique Bolland.
Almost at the same time, the citizen council of Podemos in Extremadura, which has met, has supported the integration in Sumar for the next general elections, and the general secretary of Podemos in Extremadura, Irene de Miguel – leader of one of the territories where Podemos has retained representation–, although it has not demanded responsibilities from the state leadership, it has asked that “those who do not want unity†take “a step to the sideâ€.
“United for Extremadura, within the general debacle, has obtained good results and it has a lot to do with the fact that unity makes us stronger,” De Miguel stressed, in statements to Canal Extremadura. The Extremaduran leader stresses that this unit has worked because “it is not an electoral unit, we do not unite to win more quota, we work in unity, as a confluence, not as a coalition that distributes quota issues.”
De Miguel assured that the agreement with Sumar is “it is the only way” and that the state leadership “has the mandate” to reach the agreement: “It does not enter into the equation that there is no agreement.” “We have transferred it to the general secretary and the organization secretary,” explained De Miguel, who asked his organization for “humility” in the negotiations, after the results of May 28.
The candidate of Unidas Podemos in the community of Madrid, Alejandra Jacinto, who was left out of the assembly by a narrow margin of 5,000 votes, has made a first assessment of the results and has regretted that an electoral alliance of unity would not have been possible. , “not as a fetish, unity not only as a result, unity as a way of doing politics in common both inside and outside the institutionsâ€.
In this sense, Jacinto stresses that throughout the last legislature, this unity of action with Más Madrid occurred and bore fruit, but the impossibility of putting it on the ballot explains the absolute majority of Isabel DÃaz Ayuso, despite going back in vote , and the absence of United We Can in the Madrid assembly. And he concludes “if we know how to read what happened, we have before us the clues to write the future.”
Some municipal circles, such as the case of Salceda de Caselas from Pontevedra, in addition to demanding the signing of the agreement with Sumar, after the attacks by Iglesias on CompromÃs and Mas Madrid have specifically asked the state leadership to issue a statement to demand that the militancy and sympathizers “calm and cautious” in dealing with the rest of the political forces in space to avoid “a hostile climate that should have been stopped a long time ago.”
