We can stand for unity. He desires unity and will continue to work for unity. The reason for his absence at the Magariños sports center in Madrid is the lack of unity among the other teams and the vice-president Yolanda DÃaz herself, who did not agree to pre-sign the model for making the lists that Podemos demanded . This is what the spokespersons Pablo Hernández and MarÃa Teresa Pérez explained at the press conference after the party executive. The other condition is that they do not want to be part of the reconfiguration space proposed by DÃaz, and to which the other formations have acceded, but are looking for a bilateral agreement to set up a two-way coalition between Podemos and Sumar.
These are the conditions that Podemos sets so that there are not two ballots in the general elections in December, as explained by Fernández and Pérez in a press conference in which they criticized More Madrid and CompromÃs for not having agreed on a unitary candidacy for the autonomous and municipal in Madrid and the Valencian Community. The vice-president of the Valencian Generalitat himself, Héctor Illueca, Podem’s candidate for the autonomous regions, yesterday attacked CompromÃs (Hèctor Sanjuán and Salvador Enguix report), assuring that since the departure of Mónica Oltra, the Valencian alliance has taken a turn ” conservative” which explains his growing complicity with the PSPV and his distance from Podemos.
However, the general secretary of the PCE and former Secretary of State for Social Rights, Enrique Santiago, expressed his displeasure yesterday due to the decision of the Podemos executive that its candidates in the regional elections in Valencia and Madrid would not attend in the act of summarizing, because it was taken without consulting IU – who, in any case, are also represented by the candidates from the lists of Unides Podemos–, have a Podemos, IU or Alternativa Verda card.
The imminence of 28-M and the entry minimums of 5% in the regional parliaments of Madrid and the Valencian Community continue to poison the debates between the forces gathered in Sumar and Podemos, despite the fact that both Pablo Iglesias’ mandate on 2021 as the will expressed by Yolanda DÃaz have always been to lead the confederal space of Unides Podemos and its confluences within the coalition Government and to lead a candidacy for the generals. In fact, it has been more than a year since DÃaz announced that the area of ​​convergence that he intended to promote was solely the responsibility of the general elections. The clash between Podemos and Sumar is also due, in large part, to the erroneous hypothesis with which the management of Podemos worked until half a year ago: that Pedro Sánchez would dissolve the Cortes and call general elections coinciding with the autonomous and municipal ones of May on a Super Sunday. In these circumstances, the fact that DÃaz’s platform had a purely national aspiration was less relevant because, if the elections coincided, Sumar could generate a drag effect on the rest of the local and territorial candidacies.
The leader of IU, Alberto Garzón, for his part, called for calm and unity yesterday in a Twitter thread in which he compared the reactive turn against Sumar with what he experienced inside IU with the irruption of We can, when the majority of its formation was convinced that the lilacs were a creation of “the system” to eliminate the real left, that’s why IU was systematically removed from the media while the spaces with the most audience were offered to the new formation. Garzón believes that it is essential to banish these speeches that qualify as “capital creation” everything that is not despised by the big media because they generate internal cohesion within the parties, but they do not help the political space.
The vice-president, for her part, yesterday reiterated her desire for Podemos to join the common space, but she also indicated that if Ione Belarra’s people finally decide to present themselves, this would not mean the failure of Sumar, a political space that sees enough drive and autonomy to embody the hegemony of the left in the general elections. He reiterated that his intention, since he launched Sumar, has always been to call primaries to legitimize the candidacy, instead of assuming the nomination of Iglesias, and ruled out that this, the primaries, was the sincere reason for the management of Podemos for not going to the invitation of the new platform. It is other “interests” of Podemos that have provoked the lilacs’ resistance to the new space created by DÃaz. In any case, the vice-president did not want to elaborate further and refused to explain what these “interests” are that would explain Podemos’ resistance to the process of reuniting the left-wing formations.
