Yolanda Díaz multiplies Sumar’s exploits in the final leg of her tour of Spain. While waiting to confirm her candidacy for the government presidency, an announcement that will in no case arrive before March, the second vice-president intensifies the agenda to complete her tour of the territory before the municipal and regional meetings and to hold new sectoral meetings , which will continue for a few more months. On the same Saturday, the leader of the work will do a double, with rallies in the morning in Albacete and in the afternoon in Murcia.
In the face of pressure from Podemos, who had called on Díaz in recent weeks to clarify as soon as possible whether she wanted to become the party’s candidate, the Labor leader made public on Friday that she had been in contact with all political parties since the party’s inception Formations give year. The May election, with organizations outside of United We Can but likely to be integrated into its platform competing with their own electoral interests, makes any agreement before those elections difficult, and while the parties have welcomed the start of talks, they recognize these are still in the early stages. The head of the list of compromises at the Generalitat Valenciana, Joan Baldoví, even warned Díaz this Tuesday: “Adding can never be accumulation.”
From the Congress Press Room, the MP argued that the Vice President’s project should avoid reproducing the Andalusian experience. In last June’s regional elections, the left agreed on a six-party coalition, burdened from the outset by the controversy surrounding the choice of list leader, eventually for the Izquierda Unida, and the agreement reached such a deadline that it was the Case was Podemos ended up outside the official registration of the brand. Baldoví now advocates an unhurried pact that allows each formation to preserve its “space” and “own identity.” The spokesman for Comprom emphasized the “excellent” relationship with Díaz, but briefly rejected the question of how the negotiations were going. “We have had and will continue to have talks,” he replied.
More information
Along the same lines, Más País (MP) leader and former Podemos leader, Íñigo Errejón, pointed out that they speak “very frequently” with the Ministry of Labour, with whom they get along “well”, although he avoided approaching them to provide information to argue that his party’s “political priority” at this moment has been achieved by the appointment of the 28th. Neither Compromís nor the MP now want to distract from this objective.
Publicly, tensions between Díaz and Podemos have been reduced. That same Monday, one of its spokesmen, Pablo Fernández, insisted that although “time is of the essence”, his formation “respects” the vice president’s plans and surprised by asking for “discretion” in these initial talks. The Ione Belarra-led organization would prefer to speed up the deal – the party announced on Saturday that Sumar’s team had told them they would not finalize an agreement before June – and fears a poor result at the regional and local elections could serve as an excuse to weaken them at the negotiating table to the detriment of other political forces. Díaz is trying to draw on fifteen formations to deploy Sumar across Spain and reunite the space to the left of the PSOE, a goal on which the options for reviving the coalition government largely depend, and around them they are slipping from the head Trabajo is aware of the role that Podemos has to play.
What affects most is what happens closer. Subscribe so you don’t miss anything.
subscribe to
On Tuesday, Izquierda Unida again showed her unreserved support for Díaz’s plans and described the ongoing political project as “very good news”. Her federal spokeswoman, MEP Sira Rego, appreciated the talks and denied that there had been a delay. “[Es] very important that it happens [el proceso] firstly in the political debate with the citizenry and now with the parties. We trust that we all have an important role to play because we have to come together and contribute to prevent the right wing from ruling this country and we are going backwards,” he said in an interview with Radio Euskadi. “We look forward to it we all hope that it will continue,” he added.
End of the tour in Cantabria, Andalusia and the Canary Islands
After next Saturday’s games, Díaz travels to Santander the following weekend. Sumar has yet to visit Andalusia and the Canary Islands (he will do so later), two municipalities with complex prospects ahead of May’s elections. In the first case, talks are still ongoing about close alliances in the municipalities and Más País – which is part of the regional coalition – distanced itself from the agreements with Podemos and IU a few weeks ago. In the Canary Islands, former MP Alberto Rodríguez’s platform has already reached an agreement to compete with Verdes Equo Canarias, Ahora Canarias and Los Verdes Canarias, while Podemos, Izquierda Unida and Sí se Puede will present together.
The tour will conclude before the community and regional events, and these events will be combined with other thematic meetings to address different aspects of the program such as education, housing or the fashion industry, which will continue in the following months. once the tour through the communities. However, Díaz’s involvement in the May campaign is still unknown, and Sumar’s calendar for those dates is also undefined.