Palm Sunday entered Jerusalem under palms. Vice President Yolanda Díaz announced yesterday that she will run for the presidency of the Government with the express support of all the lefts of the so-called "space for change", with the exception of the leadership of Podemos, whose executive decided to boycott the act of what until yesterday was , in her words, “our candidate”, since she did not agree to a prior bilateral agreement on the lists.
“I am going to take a step forward: I want to be the first president of my country, the first president of Spain,” announced Yolanda Díaz at the end of her speech. She minutes before she had given clues about the tone of a feminist and emancipated candidacy of tutors. Quoting Rosalía de Castro, she said: “We don't belong to anyone. Women belong to nobody. And I, as a woman, am not anyone's either. We have to proclaim it, because it seems that even today we must carry a preposition of attached to our name that marks what our adhesions are and what our debts are. The allusion seemed to have an obvious addressee, the former leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, who in his communicative hyperactivity has spent months giving him instructions on what he should do and how: “We are fed up with guardianships. Very fed up,” he said.
Díaz was speaking in front of more than half a thousand people in a packed Magariños sports center, which several thousand people (around 3,000) could not access, who lined up all morning, some from early morning, for the coming-out of Add. The organization set up a playground at the Ramiro de Maeztu school next to Magariños, where a part of the capacity that could not access the interior of the sports center followed the act on screens.
Díaz appeared surrounded by the entire confederal space of Unidas Podemos and its confluences with the sole exception of the state executive of Podemos –several deputies from the parliamentary group as well as many candidates from the purple party to the municipal and regional elections did approach the sports center– and from other formations that in 2015 participated in the same political space, such as Compromís and Más País.
In her words, Díaz did not expressly allude to the absence of Podemos, although she reiterated that "Sumar is an open house for all those who want to transform our country and I am convinced that we are going to continue adding." And he added that "we are not here to confront each other or to occupy an electoral space, but to win a country."
The mayoress of Barcelona, Ada Colau; the IU coordinator, Alberto Garzón; the leader of Más País, Íñigo Errejón; the candidate for Más Madrid, Mónica García; the mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó; or the general secretary of the PCE, Enrique Santiago, were some of the political faces that supported Díaz. Despite the boycott of the Podemos executive, the Sumar act was attended by some regional leaders, candidates and deputies such as Antón Gómez-Reyno, Txema Guijarro, Nacho Escartín and Daniel Ripa, among others. The Extremaduran coordinator of the formation, Irene de Miguel, expressed on Twitter the feeling of an important sector of Podemos: "Today everything begins for Sumar" and that although "today could not have been, I am sure that there will be other stations to be able to meet and continue together to transform this country with courage”.
The act was a success for Díaz and the political forces that promote the Sumar space, with a central role for the commons and IU, and with Más Madrid becoming visible before the elections. To all of them, with names and surnames, Díaz dedicated individual thanks in his speech, in which he avoided referring to the absence of the high command of Podemos.
The threat of two candidacies for the generals is more plausible since yesterday, just as, with the plant, Podemos' claim to occupy a hegemonic position in a common space of the left seems to dissipate. The May elections will be decisive for the articulation pacts of a single platform, because they will reveal the properties that each one has. Yesterday was Palm Sunday, hosannas and cheers. But today is Monday. Today the Captive processions.
