The inside story of Vice President Yolanda Díaz's campaign for the May elections is an x-ray of the fragility of the alliances in the space of the left. The leader of Sumar has had to overcome mutual vetoes and ultimatums to set up a calendar of events with which she will finally fully commit to the 28-M campaign, despite the fact that Sumar does not attend, to support the governments of the left and stop any advance of the right. Almost twenty events in eleven autonomous communities, that is Díaz's tight schedule in which three places are especially relevant: Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid.
Díaz communicated his calendar yesterday and in it the appointments in the Valencian Community, Madrid and Catalonia stand out, territories in which space is at stake for a right-wing advance that some believe would prefigure the framework of the general elections. In the first case, the vice president will participate in two events during the campaign, the first in Alicante, together with the Valencian vice president and United Podemos candidate, Héctor Illueca, and the second in the capital of Turia, an act of the Ciutat-Port Commission in which the mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó, from Compromís, will participate, but also the rest of the space on the left, including the candidate of Podem, Esquerra Unida and Alianza Verde, Pilar Lima, whose chances of accessing the councilor's minutes, according to previous surveys, are very scarce. These two acts in the Valencian Community seal the commitment of the leader of Sumar with the Botànic pact, headed by the socialist Ximo Puig, and with the revalidation of the majority of the left in the Valencian fiefdom, one of the most coveted pieces by the PP for 28-M. The growing mutual tension between the Compromís space, after the abandonment of Mónica Oltra's politics, and that of Podemos, IU and the rest of the organizations of the left with Podem at the helm, has meant an added difficulty for Díaz's participation in the Valencian campaign, especially after the veto of Podemos to the launch of his candidacy in Magariños, which did have the support of those of Joan Baldoví.
It has not been much easier to fit the acts of the Madrid campaign, where Unidas Podemos stakes its life on the edge of the 5% -as in Valencia, the threshold of entry both in the regional Parliament and in the City Council- and where Más Madrid, which is hegemonic in the space to the left of the PSOE, has also expressed its commitment to the candidacy of the generals of Sumar. The vice president will start the campaign on May 10 in the Madrid city of Alcorcón, one of the strong candidacies of Unidas Podemos, led by Jesús Santos, who is also the general coordinator of Podemos in the community. Given the urgency of promoting the candidacies of Unidas Podemos for the mayor's office of Madrid, headed by Roberto Sotomayor, and for the regional presidency, with Alejandra Jacinto as number one, both today slightly above the 5% threshold, and essential to stop consolidation of the PP, but without snubbing the candidates of Más Madrid, Rita Maestre and Mónica García, on May 15, the festival of San Isidro, Yolanda Díaz will go to the San Isidro meadow, where what was seen last year could be repeated, in that the vice president accompanied Jacinto, but also shared a few minutes with the leaders of Más Madrid. In any case, that same day he will participate in a campaign event in Rivas-Vaciamadrid, the largest city where the confluence area governs after Barcelona, despite the fact that at the last moment and with an agreement already closed, Podemos left the unit nomination.
And of course, Díaz will participate in the Catalan campaign, the only territory in the confederal space that has been pacified a priori and where there are no tensions between potential members of Sumar. In fact, he will attend four times: on May 12 and 13 (he will be in Montcada and Barcelona), on May 20 and, finally, on May 26, when he will close the campaign in Barcelona, with Ada Colau.
This bobbin lace, which includes events in 11 autonomous communities and which has consumed the energies of Sumar and the multilateral negotiation in recent weeks, not only responds to the commitment announced weeks ago by Díaz to help stop any advance by the right, but also that tries to keep alive the links with all the forces that Sumar intends to bring together in the second half of the year, before the general elections. Above all, after the tension generated by the Podemos boycott of the Magariños act on April 2. No one renounces a unitary candidacy in advance or wants to be singled out as the one who made it impossible.
