2023-06-05 23:23:49
Podemos has broken a week of informative silence on Monday regarding the negotiations with Sumar, the project led by Yolanda Díaz for the general elections. The party’s spokesmen, Isa Serra and Pablo Fernández, have insisted that their organization is focused on achieving a “unity” agreement, and they have urged the pact. “Every minute that we fail to reach an agreement is very valuable time lost that we should be dedicating to convincing [al electorado progresista] to put ballots in a ballot box to stop the right”, Serra stated, eight days after the crash on 28-M and after a week of dialogue with the team of the second vice president of the Government. The spokesperson has rejected the possibility of a veto for figures such as Irene Montero, number two the formation, in the electoral lists of that hypothetical alliance between Podemos and Sumar; a debate —that of that supposed veto to the presence of Montero in the candidacy, which some voices also extend to Ione Belarra—, which was amplified on Friday when the leader of the IU, Alberto Garzón, resigned from going on the list. “Personal vetoes do not help and are attempts to torpedo unity,” said the spokesperson. Sumar, on the other hand, announced on Monday the incorporation of the former deputy and former coordinator of Podemos in the European Parliament Pablo Bustinduy, who will be a campaign adviser and in international politics.
Seven days after the start of the contacts between Podemos and Sumar and with a reduced time frame – the term to register electoral coalitions ends this coming Friday before midnight – the possibility of understanding is still in the air. Some voices within the leadership of Ione Belarra’s party say that the progress made so far in the negotiation with the team led by Díaz’s chief of staff, Josep Vendrell, is not enough and they demand that an agreement not be made using the photograph as a reference of the regional and municipal ones, disastrous for Podemos, which was left out of the Community of Madrid, Valencia and the Canary Islands. It also lost support in the vast majority of territories. In the party they consider that they have a consolidated electoral space on a national scale and that it is a mistake to extrapolate these data.
“At Podemos we continue to work for and for unity. Allow me to be prudent with the conversations that are taking place these days,” Serra said at a press conference. “Unity is absolutely essential to win the elections,” insisted Pablo Fernández. The spokeswoman stressed the importance of having an “organization like Podemos” in moments of “advance of the reactionaries” to promote “the transformations that the country needs.” “We have a decisive role for the future to come”, he has claimed, in full conversations to define the integration and also the weight of the party, that is, the positions that they will occupy on the Sumar ballots on July 23, with constituencies particularly complex, such as Madrid or the Valencian Community. In private, in the party they point to the supposed interest of some profiles of Más Madrid or Compromís in leaving them out of the confluence.
Serra has admitted that these are “complicated” days, after the electoral disaster, and has made an “appeal to left-wing citizens” to “go out and fight this battle.” “15-M was thanks to the fact that we all mobilized, it is essential,” he encouraged.
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— We can (@WE CAN) June 5, 2023
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The spokeswoman has taken the opportunity to defend that feminism has been the driving movement of “social transformations” in recent years. “It is no coincidence that we have seen this legislature: a right and extreme right that have made the Ministry of Equality their main enemy.”
Asked first thing in the morning on the Catalan radio station Rac1 about the chances of a pact, the former vice president and former leader of Podemos Pablo Iglesias was blunt: “If there isn’t one, it’s already very difficult to say that there is an option of not having a Council of Ministers of PP and Vox”. Iglesias supported himself in the 40dB survey. for EL PAÍS and Cadena SER, which concludes that a unitary candidacy to the left of the PSOE could win 41 seats and snatch an absolute majority from the right, while separately they would only obtain 25 (22 Sumar and three Podemos). “Surveys are surveys (…), but with these elements the colleagues have to assume responsibility for the percentage that each one represents,” said Iglesias (Add 10% and Podemos 4.4%, according to that survey). “Faced with a dynamic that I have had the feeling of seeing in recent days as revenge, pressure from ‘Irene Montero, get out’, it would be much more sensible to bet on responsibility,” he added.
“You have to let the comrades who are negotiating work, with as little pressure as possible (…) In this case, Podemos is being very generous, also assuming that it is no longer the hegemonic party in space despite the fact that according to the polls continues to be the one with the most electoral support compared to all the other parties (…) I want my colleagues to know that leading often has more to do with being generous than with trying to humiliate or make someone go under the table football” , has concluded the former secretary general.
Díaz: “Sumar is not just an agreement between parties”
Yolanda Díaz has taken advantage of her intervention in the forum of eldiario.es this Monday to underline that his project goes beyond a coalition of political forces. “Sumar is not just an agreement between parties, no matter how much interest it arouses,” he stated at a time of special tension due to the fit of each organization in the future project. “Sumar is a new country project that looks to the future, that wants to recover it for the people of our country. That he wants more democracy, more employment, solid companies, human rights and more pensions”, he has listed (…) The people are waiting for us. We are working tirelessly to provide serenity and certainty to Spanish society, which needs calm. We are facing a crisis and there are many uncertainties. In turbulent times, serenity and calm ”, he had an impact before praising his latest signing, Pablo Bustinduy, a former leader of Podemos close to Íñigo Errejón and who already worked in the Sumar international team. His departure from the game in 2019 was not traumatic and he enjoys recognition within the formation. Díaz has highlighted “his height of him” and has thanked him for “the step forward”.
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