Podemos is for unity. He wants 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 rest of the formations and the vice president Yolanda Díaz herself, who did not agree to previously sign the model for preparing the lists that Podemos demanded. This was explained in the press conference after the party executive by spokespersons Pablo Hernández and María Teresa Pérez. The other condition is that they do not want to be part of the reconfiguration space planned by Díaz, and to which the rest of the formations have agreed, but rather seek a bilateral agreement for a two-way coalition between Podemos and Sumar.
These are the conditions that Podemos puts so that there are not two ballots in the December general elections, as explained by Fernández and Pérez in a press conference in which they charged the inks against Más Madrid and Compromís for not having agreed on a unitary candidacy for the regional elections. and the municipal ones in Madrid and the Valencian Community. The vice-president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Héctor Illueca, Podem's candidate for the regional elections, yesterday criticized Compromís (report Hèctor Sanjuán and Salvador Enguix), assuring that since the departure of Mónica Oltra, the Valencian alliance has made a "conservative" turn ” which explains his growing complicity with the PSPV and his distance from Podem.
However, the general secretary of the PCE and former Secretary of State for Social Rights, Enrique Santiago, yesterday expressed his annoyance at the decision of the Podemos executive that their candidates for the Valencian and Madrid regional elections not attend the Sumar act, because It was taken without consulting the IU – who, in any case, is also represented by the candidates on the United Podemos lists –, whether they have a Podemos, IU or Alternativa Verde card.
The imminence of 28-M and the minimum entry of 5% in the autonomous parliaments of Madrid and the Valencian Community continue to poison the debates between the forces united in Sumar and Podemos, despite the fact that both the entrustment of Pablo Iglesias in the 2021 as the will expressed by Yolanda Díaz was always to lead the confederal space of United We Can and its confluences within the coalition government and lead a candidacy of generals. In fact, more than a year ago, Díaz announced that the space for convergence that she intended to promote only concerned the general elections. The clash of Podemos with Sumar is also due, to a large extent, to the erroneous hypothesis with which the Podemos leadership worked until half a year ago: that Pedro Sánchez would dissolve the Cortes and call general elections coinciding with the regional and municipal elections of May on a Super Sunday. In these circumstances, the fact that Díaz's platform had a solely state aspiration was less relevant because, when the elections coincided, Sumar could generate a drag effect on the rest of the local and territorial candidacies.
The leader of the IU, Alberto Garzón, for his part, yesterday called for calm and unity in a Twitter thread in which he compared the reactive turn against Sumar with the one he experienced within the IU with the irruption of Podemos, when the majority From its formation, it was convinced that the purples were a creation "of the system" to put an end to the real left, which is why IU was systematically removed from the media while the spaces with the highest audience were offered to the new formation. Garzón believes that it is essential to banish these speeches that brand everyone who is not despised by the mainstream media as the “creation of capital”, because they generate internal cohesion in the parties, but they do not help the political space.
The vice president, for her part, yesterday reiterated her wish that Podemos join the common space, but she also indicated that, if those of Ione Belarra finally decide to attend on their own, that would not mean the failure of Sumar, a political space to which He sees with enough verve 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 designation of Iglesias, and ruled out that this, the primaries, was the sincere reason for the leadership of Podemos not to go to the invitation of the new platform. It is other "interests" of Podemos that have provoked the resistance of the purples to the new space created by Díaz. In any case, the vice president did not want to go any further and she refused to explain what those "interests" are that would explain Podemos's resistance to the process of reunion of the formations of the left.
