There are riot vibes in the territories of Podemos. In the absence of the state citizen council of formation, a body in which all the territories are represented and which even having the maximum authority between congresses continues to be unconvened, the territories of the lilacs have begun to pressure the state leadership to reach an integration agreement with Sumar.
The coordinator of Extremadura, Irene de Miguel, assures that the Extremadura citizens’ council has unanimously supported the integration of Sumar and affirms that the state management has “the mandate” of the entire organization to reach an agreement. He asks that “those who do not want unity step aside” and emphasizes that “it does not enter into the equation that there is no agreement”.
“So we transferred it to the general secretary [Ione Belarra] and the organization secretary [Lilith Verstrynge]”, explained De Miguel, who speaks from the authority of leading a list of unity that has revalidated results in the elections For this reason, he gives as an example the process of unity that Unides per Extremadura demands from the state leadership: “It is not an electoral unity, we did not come together to win more quota, we work in unity, as a confluence, not as a coalition”. He also made it clear that, as a result of the party’s “wretchedness” in the 28-M elections, the negotiation process with Sumar must be approached “with humility”.
In an identical sense, Begoña Alfaro, who headed the left-wing unity candidacy and who also managed to revalidate his seats, spoke: “In Navarre we have marked a path and the results have proved us right”. That is why he believes that “this must be the way forward at state level and we trust that the negotiators will be equally clear”. Anything else, he maintains, would be “an impressive irresponsibility”.
The candidate for the Community of Madrid, Alejandra Jacinto, spoke out yesterday for the first time and did so regretting that the common political action she tackled with Més Madrid during the last two years had not been transferred to the electoral candidacy, since United We Can was left out of the Assembly by 5,000 votes. Jacinto, in his open letter, claims unity “not as a fetish, unity not only as a result, unity as a way of doing politics in common both inside and outside the institutions”.
Precisely yesterday, Més Madrid gathered its bases, which with 96% of the votes decided to join the Sumar platform.
In the Valencian Community, militants and officials of Podemos, after the poor result of the regional list headed by Héctor Illueca, who has been left out of the Valencian Courts and has caused the fall of the Botanic, have published a manifesto in which they demand “integrate -se to a broad confluence structured from Sumar, through provincial primaries that guarantee that the final decision rests with the bases of Podemos”. At the same time – report Hèctor Sanjuán and Enrique Bolland – they demand that the regional administration “immediately assume responsibility for the disastrous results obtained” and, in particular, point out Pilar Lima and MarÃa Teresa Pérez.
The Galician management of Podemos has also opted for the agreement. The coordinator of Podemos Galicia, Borja San Román, insisted yesterday – 48 hours before the end of the deadline to register the coalitions and after the spokesperson of Podemos in Congress, Pablo Echenique, pointed out that “they are already late” for an agreement – that “there is still time for unity” and calls on the state leadership to “make it possible”. San Román has insisted that “the objective is the defeat of the PP and Vox”, and to achieve this “the way is unity”.
The story takes place in the circle of Podem in the town of Salceda de Castelas, in Pontevedra, which, in addition to the incorporation of Sumar, is calling on the state leadership to discipline its bases and positions and put an end to the public flogging of other forces in the same space to avoid “a hostile climate that should have stopped long ago”.
