The Podemos militancy has given the purple executive the endorsement it requested to decide without hindrance on the integration of the party into the Sumar platform led by the second vice-presidency of the Government, Yolanda DÃaz. It is the result of the consultation called yesterday in extremis and that has concluded at 10 this morning, at 2 pm until the deadline (today at midnight) for the registration of coalitions to attend the general elections on July 23 .
The result of the vote, reports Podemos, was an overwhelming yes majority, 49,089 (92.92%) votes, with only 3,568 (6.75%) negative pronouncements and 172 blank votes (0.33%). 52,829 registered members of the purple formation have participated in the consultation, as reported by Podemos minutes after the data was released by Canal Red, a medium directed by the founder of Podemos and former second vice president of the Government, Pablo Iglesias.
The wording of the question did not anticipate the content of a possible agreement, it simply requested powers for the coordination council (the executive) to make its decision: “Do you accept that the Coordination Council of Podemos, following the criteria of unity that marked the State Citizen Council, negotiate with Sumar and, where appropriate, agree on an electoral alliance between Podemos and Sumar?
With this endorsement of the bases, the executive of Podemos must meet urgently to make a final decision on Sumar’s offer which, according to sources from Podemos have leaked this week, would leave the Minister of Public Affairs out of the starting positions on the lists. Equality, Irene Montero, one of the main stumbling blocks of the negotiation.
Yesterday some aspects of the negotiations between the two parties came to light, such as the proposal of the purple leadership to run alone in the Valencian Community before “the evidence of the vetoes” to the candidates of the party led by Belarra, and to go within the coalition of DÃaz in the rest of Spain, but Sumar did not accept it.
CompromÃs and Sumar reached an agreement this Friday, whereby the Valencian coalition will elect the number 1 for Valencia (who will be a kind of country candidate and will monopolize the electoral posters) in addition to the three number two for Alicante, Castellón and, also, Valencia. The 1 for Alicante will be for Sumar and the headliner for Castellón for an independent consensus. The list will bear the name CompromÃs-Sumar.
Meanwhile, several parties have been adhering to the second vice president’s project and from the fortnight with which they opened negotiations, Más Madrid-Más PaÃs has already been confirmed; Izquierda Unida, Chunta Aragonesista, Los Verdes Equo, Proyecto Drago de Canarias, Iniciativa del Pueblo Andaluz, AraMés in the Balearic Islands and Batzarre in Navarra. In addition to Podemos, the agreement with Catalunya En Comú is pending signing. The Movement for Dignity and Citizenship (MDyC), a Muslim party in Ceuta, whose spokesperson, Fátima Hamed Hossain, supported DÃaz from the beginning and with whom Sumar also opened negotiations, has decided not to attend 23-J.
