The Comuns have celebrated that their national coordinator and former mayor of Castelldefels Candela Lopez enter as a representative in Congress. An incorporation that was taken for granted hours after the surprise resignation of Podemos’s hitherto number three, Lilith Verstrynge, who has left politics for personal reasons. With this movement, Adding not only wins a representative – now she will have 27 – while the purple ones lose an amount in the Mixed Group, but a leader of the trust of Yolanda Diaz and that she is involved in the group promoting the founding assembly of the new party in March.
“It is an honor to walk by your side, Candela. I know that you will do exceptional work as you do everywhere,” said the president of En Comú Podem in the Parliament and also national coordinator of training, Jessica Albiach, who at the beginning of December broke the purple card after double militancy was prohibited. Shortly after, Podemos broke with Sumar in Congress, at which point the Comuns demanded Verstrynge and the rest of the wayward deputies who they returned the actto. The former secretary of organization of Podemos, who came fourth on the list for Barcelona from En Comú Podem after the give and take with those of Ada Colau for the preparation of the general list, has been six months in the institution until the moment of his resignation.
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Verstrynge has not explained the reasons for his sudden goodbye, of which the Comuns were not previously informed, but sources from the formation of Ione Belarra they emphasize that “it has been at the forefront of negotiations with Sumara very demanding task that has been carried out under very difficult conditions.” A veiled reference to the “tough” negotiations that they have maintained with Díaz in recent months for the municipal and general coalitions and that did not finally prevent the total divorce in Congress as soon as the legislature started.
The reissue of the coalition in doubt
The rupture at the state level also has reverberations in Catalonia, where relations between Comuns and Podem are currently suspended. The first claim to be waiting for the primaries concludein which Conchi Abellán She is running for reelection as coordinator in the midst of an internal crisis, while the purple ones point out that there has been no dialogue between both parties since the general elections. In fact, Candela Lopez She is one of those in charge of maintaining contacts with the coalition partners, which is in doubt whether it can be repeated in the next Catalan elections.