The second vice president of the Government and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, has assured this Monday that it is not the primaries, but other "interests" that mean that Podemos has not yet integrated into the platform with which various leftist formations want to present themselves to the next general elections.
In an interview with TVE collected by Servimedia, Díaz thus values that Podemos was not present this Sunday at the Sumar event in Madrid, in which the vice president announced that she will attend the next general elections.
Díaz has assured that from “minute minus one” he has been favorable to the primaries and that this is not the problem. He indicated that he was not going to reveal the "interests" of Podemos, referring to the fact that there would be other reasons that would explain the reluctance of those from Ione Belarra to join Sumar.
For his part, Pablo Iglesias, the leader of Podemos, today on the paper withdrawn from the front line. He has defended that the unity of the left "is more necessary than ever" and, in this sense, has affirmed that "it is very important that Podemos and Sumar reach an agreement for the elections".
Iglesias has spoken in RAC1 a day after Yolanda Díaz presented her Sumar project this Sunday in which the leadership of Podemos did not participate -not so some territorial leaders of this party- after they failed to reach an agreement on the participation of this training in the project led by the second vice president of the Government.
The one who was the promoter of Podemos has claimed to abandon "personal feelings and taunts" despite the fact that he has admitted that "today is one of those days in which it is necessary for the stomach not to disturb the head."
The former leader of Podemos considers that "Sumar's comrades make the following analysis, which is completely legitimate, saying 'look, Podemos was hegemonic in this political space for a long time, but that time is over'", and those comrades believe that "Now is the time for other tactical theses and let's say with a series of programmatic objectives that may be different, but with basically the same program, but it has to be another style that is hegemonic here" he assured in a statement collected by Servimedia.
"That is perfectly legitimate - he continued his reflection - and beware, maybe they are right, that is, maybe it is true that the time of Podemos as the hegemonic force of that political space is over, and now they have hegemony to have other sectors that are not going to say the same things as Podemos, even though they have a similar program.”
"Now what Podemos poses is like 'very good, but then let the people decide," added Pablo Iglesias, who defends the thesis of the party leadership that considers that primaries should determine the composition of the lists with which that add can attend the elections.
Yolanda Díaz is not opposed to this strategy but disagrees on the moment and how and with whom the mechanism of these primaries should be agreed. In fact, at this point, the rest of the forces that yesterday shared a project with Díaz defend a multilateral agreement, that is, a mechanism agreed upon by all.
