Yolanda Diaz was in Valencia on Friday and did not want to talk to journalists, just three days after the file of the case against Mónica Oltra was known. The leader of Sumar did not want to address the media and did not have the opportunity to speak out about news of strong political significance for Compromís, for Sumar and for the ecosystem from the left to the left of the PSOE, nor about the future of what was Valencian vice president. Yolanda Díaz avoided talking about the matter in the city where the first major consultation event for her political project was held, organized by Oltra at the Olympia Theater, in November 2021, with Mónica García and Ada Colau as co-stars. With her silence she avoided speaking out about the tough negotiations between Compromís and Sumar to close the list to the Europeans. Also about the policies of the PP and Vox executive chaired by Carlos Mazón, widely discussed between the right and the left, and which have been the cause of a dispute between the Government, “his” Government, and the Generalitat Valenciana.
Yolanda Díaz came to Valencia on Friday but, apparently, she had nothing to say. The Spanish vice president speaks little about Valencia, but some of her decisions have greatly influenced Valencian politics. Enric Juliana recalled this week that a year ago the Magariños event was held to present Sumar, a few weeks before the Valencian regional elections and when Mónica Oltra had long since resigned from all of her positions. The story is already known: fracture in the space of Sumar and Podemos, uncomplexed anger (with a serious accent in the digital space) and demobilization of the electorate on March 28. Effects that influenced the defeat of the Botànic and the victory of the right and the extreme right, in the change of cycle that in 2015 led the left to win the institutions, with Mónica Oltra as the undoubted protagonist of the “Valencian formula”, the that made it possible for all the left to unite to govern. One fact: the absurdity of that electoral campaign was played out by Yolanda Díaz, when she had to invent a strange liturgy to demonstrate that she supported Compromís and Unides Podem without seeming that she supported Compromís more or Unides Podem more. That’s how things were.
It is likely that Sumar will end up losing its alliance with Compromís, whatever is agreed on the European electoral list. The Valencian coalition has assumed that its agreement with Yolanda Díaz’s formation has made them invisible in Madrid, and they already know that Madrid is Spain, and Díaz’s inability to defend the “Valencian agenda” – financing, investments, debt, etc. – leaves a You compromise without a story before your electorate and before Valencian society. There is a lot of unrest among the Valencian troops, a lot. Compromís, furthermore, still lacks clear leadership, and its solidarity does not quite work. The possibility that Mónica Oltra could once again be spokesperson for the group has raised many expectations.
Yolanda Díaz has barely spoken about the file of the case against Mónica Oltra; a brief intervention in La Sexta and a tweet. The leader of Sumar, in line with the position of her Government, put herself in profile with the accusation of Valencian politics (so did many representatives of Compromís). But Mónica Oltra can return to the political front line, and in the space to the left of the PSOE few doubt that her reintegration into the political ecosystem can offer interesting moments when Sumar accumulates elections due to defeats and Podemos runs the risk of consolidating its institutional marginality. as has happened in the Valencian Community. They are just hypotheses, possibilities, but Yolanda Díaz on Friday did not want to say anything in Valencia, when some expected the Spanish vice president and leader of Sumar to say something. She will have to wait.
