Podemos experienced its bitterest electoral night yesterday with a poor result throughout the country that leaves it out of Valencian and Madrid politics. Neither their candidate for the Community of Madrid, Alejandra Jacinto, nor the candidate for the Community of Valencia, Héctor Illueca, have reached the 5% necessary to enter the regional parliaments, and neither have their municipal candidates in the Madrid capitals. , Roberto Sotomayor, and Valencian, Pilar Lima.
The balance is very harsh with the formation led by the Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra: in Asturias, Podemos loses 3 deputies and remains with 1, as in Aragon, where they have lost 4 acts. In the Balearic Islands, they lose 4 more and are left with 2 seats, but out of government; the same as in the Canary Islands, where they lose the 4 representatives they had. In Madrid they lose 10 acts, and in the Valencian Community, 8. Only Irene de Miguel, in Extremadura, manages to repeat the 4 seats she had, just like María Marín in Múrcia, who keeps 2 acts, and Raúl Pérez in La Rioja In Navarra, Begoña Alfaro is the only candidate, with Contigo Navarra, that improves results: it goes from 2 acts to 3.
The defeat was of such dimensions – especially painful in Madrid and the Valencian Community – that at midnight no state leader had appeared at the party's headquarters to assess the results nor had any assessment been expressed on social networks.
After 0.05 hours, the headliners from Madrid, Roberto Sotomayor and Alejandra Jacinto, appeared, accompanied by members of their lists but without a single face from the state leadership of Podemos. Sotomayor, visibly affected, emphasized that she was one tenth away from entering the City Council, while the regional candidate, Alejandra Jacinto, regretted the victory of Isabel Díaz Ayuso and appealed to "the unity of the progressive bloc ". Jacinto described the results as "bad" for "the whole progressive block, but in a singular way "for this political force".
The first leader of the Unides Podemos space to make an analysis of the black night had been, an hour earlier, the IU coordinator and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Alberto Garzón, who, in a Twitter thread, assessed the result as "worrying" and pointed out that "the advance of the reactionary wave is evident, and the general retreat of the left and progressive governments is a very clear warning that we must be able to listen to", since "disaffection and citizens' frustrations are increasingly being channeled by the right-wing and, in times of eco-social crisis, this is a particularly serious danger". Garzón emphasizes that the general elections "are around the corner and there is not a single minute to lose in order to regain confidence and win social majorities".
And this despite the fact that, where there was no pact between IU and Podemos, Garzón's team fared better than Ione Belarra's team. In Aragon they get one seat each, but in Asturias IU gets three minutes, while Podemos, which had faced its own candidate, Covadonga Tomé, and had four regional deputies, only gets one minute in the General Assembly of the Principality.
In the provincial capitals and cities of more than 100,000 where IU and Podemos did not achieve an alliance, the advantage falls on the side of Garzón. Thus, in Zamora IU obtained 10 acts, and Podemos, none; in Oviedo, IU obtained 3 acts, and Podemos, none; in Zaragoza, IU, two acts, and Podemos, none; in Gijón, IU obtained two councilors, and Podem, none, or in Rivas-Vaciamadrid, where the pact was broken at the last minute and IU obtained 9 councilors and the possibility (at the close of this edition) of revalidating the municipal government, while Podemos got none; a readjustment of hegemony on this side of the political board
In the general picture, the resilience of the commons, Compromís and More Madrid, alongside the readjustment of power between Podemos and IU, deals new cards for the game of Sumar. attentive
