Vice President Yolanda Díaz did not directly answer the exhortations that the founders of Podemos have been launching for 48 hours, but she cleared up some of the doubts that both the former secretary general of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, and the spokesman for the executive, Javier Sánchez Serna, cast on the intentions of the Minister of Labor: "Adding is already unstoppable, I am willing, I will take a step forward, if you want". But she also made it clear that she is not going to meet the demands of Podemos regarding the reconfiguration of the space before municipal and regional ones. The country project for the next decade that the working groups and the citizen listening mechanisms elaborate demand "that we stop, that we not be in a hurry, there is no one left, all the people are missing to work patiently, calmly, slowly " .
He did not allude in any case to the collision with Podemos that the entire political space has been talking about for months, but he did allude to what Sumar should be, "a citizen platform" that "is feminist because it cares, it does not confront, it is not fighting all day, he doesn't yell." And he added that "politics is not about winning, it is about advancing."
The truth is that the reappearance of Pablo Iglesias as the moral leader of Podemos, more than a year after his retirement from politics – with General Secretary Ione Belarra on leave – has caused concern in the political space, and growing suspicion that Sumar and Podemos could not come together in the generals. Yesterday, the former Secretary of State for Agenda 2030, Enrique Santiago -leader of the PCE- asked for maturity not to transfer the "organizational problems of the space" to the public debate, and at the same time expressed his conviction in the confluence of interests of the entire space: " I don't think that the Podemos militancy wants to distance itself from Yolanda Díaz” and they also don't want to read “headlines about our discrepancies”.
But concern about a possible schism on the left – yet another – has reached the government's majority partner. Patxi López, parliamentary spokesman for the PSOE, voiced this concern on Onda Cero and expressed his surprise at the angry reappearance of Pablo Iglesias, who "now commands more than before." The situation, he says, is risky for progressivism, and he wanted the space to coalesce behind a single leadership. "It was Iglesias who said that Yolanda could be the one to drive and it seems that now she puts obstacles in the way of that being the case." It was not a trivial comment, it was the expression of a concern that has run through the PSOE and Moncloa for weeks, as the atmosphere in Podemos has been overheating.
