One day after the former vice president of the Government Pablo Iglesias harshly charged his successor Yolanda Díaz for "putting herself in profile" in the controversy of the 'Law of only yes is yes' - an attitude that he labeled as "miserable" and "politically stupid ”-, the leadership of Podem attended the Sumar act that the vice president organized in Valencia.
It was no surprise, since the Podem coordinator herself, Pilar Lima, had announced it days ago. In fact, at a press conference, the also trustee of Unides Podem in Les Corts Valencianes had reiterated the message that both she and the second vice president of the Valencian Government, Héctor Illueca, have always defended that Díaz is their candidate for eventual general elections .
However, after what happened the day before with Iglesias' obvious rebuke to Díaz for not having sided with a coalition partner like Irene Montero in the face of the "hunt", the clear support of Lima and Illueca for Sumar's act generated some questions among the purple militancy.
And it is that the open war between the former top leader of the purple formation and the call to lead that political space to the left of the PSOE is complicated by the position of the Valencian leadership that has been betting, for months, on pacification without renouncing or to Díaz's candidacy or to the requests for respect to Podemos that were heard at the party's autumn university. A complicated game of balances that falters every time that one and the other bet to stress the situation. In Podem they are aware that any possibility of reissuing the coalition government in Spain goes through reconciliation and unity.
In the same way that Lima and Illueca defend that the vice president is their best electoral asset, they understand that Díaz should take care of the forms as when he showed his overflowing joy for the candidacy of Joan Baldoví (Compromís) for the Presidency of the Generalitat Valenciana or when he she photographed smiling, this same Saturday, with the mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó, before attending the event where both Illueca and Lima were waiting for her. By the way, if nothing goes wrong, Baldoví and Ribó will be Podem's electoral rivals in the regional and municipal elections, respectively.
They -Illueca and Lima- have positioned themselves alongside Montero. In fact, the spokeswoman in Les Corts - who wrote a tweet in support of the minister before attending Díaz's event - will take advantage of the control question to the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Ximo Puig, on Thursday that they come to know "How Should the Valencian Government act in the face of the smear campaign that is taking place against the law of comprehensive guarantee of sexual freedom? A question with a clear internal reading, as happened in the last session when Lima questioned Puig about the lawfare cases.
Be that as it may, the truth is that the internal battle in the Unides Podem space is increasingly alienating Compromís and has ended up burying any attempt to seek an agreement between the leftist forces vis-à-vis the regional and municipal forces. In the Valencian coalition, but also in Unides Podem, they are very clear that the members of the PSPV in the Botànic will not go together to the elections next spring.
Another thing is the generals. Compromís did send an important delegation to the Sumar act - even Baldoví came over to say hello - and although they do not quite see the project clearly, they do understand that Díaz would be a good electoral poster for the generals. Some elections where the pull of the second vice president can be key and where Compromís know that, alone, they do not have many options to play a great role.
