A fight for quotas and weight in the candidacy. That is what is behind the negotiations that these days maintain Sumar and the Comuns -the main pillar of Yolanda Díaz- with Can. Purples in Catalonia consider that they are being “undervalued” on the En Comú Podem list that is being drawn up for the general elections. As EL PERIÓDICO has learned, this has been transferred to the direction of the Comuns along with a counterproposal. But for now, the only response they have gotten has been that the formation of Ada Colau accuses them of having ensured that they are negotiating with CKD a lista hypothesis that flatly deny both from ERC and from the purple ones.
In fact, from Podem Catalunya they show “convinced” that they will reach an entente, as they have done “always until now”, to present themselves jointly, the same formula that they hope will be imposed at the state level. Sources from the leadership of the purples explain that the fact of the matter is that the Comuns have proposed to occupy only one position on the Barcelona list that does not have “assured exit”while in 2019 they had three: Jaume Asens -that they assured that “it counted for both Comuns and Podem”-, mar garciawhich was number three, and the head of the list for Tarragona, Ismael Cortes.
This time, they assure from the ‘podemita’ dome, neither Asens nor García, in the case of repeating, could be “recorded as Podem” because they have not participated in the internal life of the party in recent years. They demand more, while the consideration of the Comuns is that in Catalonia the weight of the formation that leads conchi abellan It is a minority in space. The spokesperson for En Comú Podem in Parliament, David Cidhas limited itself to ensuring that “they work together as En Comú Podem” to go hand in hand with the Sumar project under the baton of Yolanda Diaz.
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“we are surprised statements that are not true. We continue to seek that agreement and joint work that endorse us, “she assured. He has not clarified whether he was referring to the accusations of vetoing Irene Montero in the candidacy with Sumar, but the party reiterates that it is in favor of Podemos being part of Díaz’s candidacy. Although he has also avoided assessing the alleged conversations between ERC and Podemos that they themselves have indicated despite the fact that all parties deny it. Sources from the Comuns assure that the purple ones do They have verbalized the threat behind closed doorsbut what else is whether or not it is a bluff of the purple ones in the negotiations.
From Podem Catalunya they insist that it is necessary to “close the negotiations soon” to “silence voices” and “noise” which, they say, does not benefit the space. They add that there are no “differences” of a programmatic nature that justify the disagreement and that they are convinced that “sensible” will prevail both in the Catalan and national spheres. “Of course, what they cannot claim is that we are subordinates,” they stress, while they wait for a response from the leadership of Catalunya en Comú.