Pedro Sanchez insists that it does not want to interfere in the negotiation process of the Sumar project, led by Yolanda Diaz as the next candidate to preside over the Government. The chief executive avoids speaking in public about the complex talks that are happening in the space located to the left of the PSOE. That’s not her “style & rdquor ;, she explains. However, his future at the head of Moncloa after the general elections, which will initially be held in December, depends largely on what ends up happening with Podemos, which until now has refused to join Díaz’s candidacy, alleging that for to draw up future lists, it is essential to hold open primaries. So this Wednesday, in an informal conversation with the journalists who accompanied him on his tour of Cyprus, Malta and Italy, Sánchez wanted to make his “desire” clear: the purple ones, he explained, should be part of Sumar.
The socialist leader had remained silent until now about the act that took place last Sunday, in which the third vice president and Minister of Labor ran for office to lead the country. There were formations like Catalonia En Comú, Compromís and More Country. But we cannot, despite the fact that it was Pablo Iglesias, former leader of this party, who appointed Díaz to take over from him in the Moncloa candidacy. For Sánchez, what was seen at that rally, held in Madrid, was the “fitting together of many of the pieces of the puzzle.” More than political forces participated in the call, he has reminded himself. “Our desire is for all the pieces to fit together,” the Chief Executive has made clear.
The effects on the Executive
The socialists are increasingly aware that if Sumar and Podemos go separately the reissue of a coalition Like the current one, which is Sánchez’s only bet to continue at Moncloa, it will be very difficult. Beyond the result in votes of one and the other, when presenting himself in different candidacies there would have been numerous ballots in each constituency that would go to the wastebasket, since they were not enough to win seats.
But Sánchez did not want to anticipate how he thinks everything will end, despite the fact that three of the main representatives of the space to the left of the PSOE sit in the Council of Ministers that he presides over.: Ione Belarraleader of Podemos and Minister of Social Affairs; Irene Montero, head of Equality, and Díaz herself. As head of the Executive, he has explained himself, he never asks about the “parties & rdquor ;. He tries to maintain an “institutional & rdquor; with the minority partner members of the coalition.
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The president has shown less concern about the effects that these tensions may have on the Government, despite the fact that in recent times it seems more tripartite than bipartite, due to the conflict between Podemos and Díaz. All this noise, he explained, has not prevented the Executive from acting together in Vox’s recent motion of no confidence, the second in this legislature, nor the approval of a reform as important as that of the pension system, which “justifies all a legislature & rdquor ;.
Meanwhile, according to Sánchez, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has gone from “more to less”. The leader of the PP, like the extreme right, had “bet everything on the apocalypse & rdquor ;, on the recession, unemployment and social unrest, he explained. However, now that he sees how the data for economic growth and employment are very positive, he is “baffled & rdquor ;.”