Podemos celebrated its special St. John’s night yesterday in Madrid. There was no bonfire to jump, no flames to cross. But there were indeed messages of purification and spiritual renewal after the rumored breakup with Sumar two weeks ago.

To the rhythm of Peret’s No estaba muerto, estaba de parranda, the ruling core of a party that is increasingly weakened and entrenched appealed to the strength of its militancy to leave behind the last failed electoral cycle – which has left out of the Government and with a very weakened territorial implementation – and focus on 2024 which, with the elections in Galicia and Euskadi and, above all, with the elections to the European Parliament, seems to be key for the future of training.

And for the European commission, the person chosen is the former Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, who honored the offer of the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, to head the purple list prior to the holding of primaries which seem like a simple procedure.

Montero, on whom much of the party’s action will pivot once the action of its five deputies in the mixed group of Congress has been reduced, defended in his speech the need to “return to the essential, to the important”. And, after enumerating the social advances achieved by Podemos since its foundation, he gave the start of a new stage, now without Sumar, to “start again” and put together a “brave and ambitious” project.

Both the break with Sumar and the election of Montero for the European elections were sung. But no one expected that Podemos would burn through the stages so quickly.

At least not before the Basque and Galician elections where yesterday, precisely, Sumar, the force led by Yolanda Díaz – already turned into the familiar opponent of Podem – opened the game.

Without lowering the tension due to the open negotiations on possible coalitions, the vice-president of the central government presented her signings in border fishing grounds and among which stand out the former socialist deputy Juan Díaz Villoslada, until a week ago the Secretary of Organization from Podem Galicia, Glòria Alonso Domínguez, and the one who was spokesperson for the BNG in Teo, Manuel Barreiro.

Díaz claimed in his speech the “amplitude” of a capital project as the “third piece of change” in Galicia. And without mentioning Podemos, showing that the break in Madrid removes any meeting point at regional level, he appealed to the PSOE and the BNG to join forces and evict the PP from the Xunta.

“We must believe in ourselves, we can win in Galicia!”, he harangued the militancy gathered at the Palexco in A Coruña, and reminded them that in the general elections there were 800,000 progressive votes and that the last majority of the PP there were about 627,000 supports. For this reason, Díaz claimed the results of Sumar in the general elections as a lever for change against those who took it for granted that “Feijóo would win and his vice president would be Abascal”.