“Soon“. There is still no further specification about when it will give Yolanda Diaz the step of announce your candidate to the general elections. However, the mere intention of the second vice president of the Government to start warming up for the polls has caused some uproar in the purple space. The harshest reaction has been that of the leadership of Podemos, which has demanded that the leader of Sumar close a coalition agreement before launching her candidacy in order to be at that event.
“The spring of 2023 is going to be decisive for the country we want. Soon we will see each other in Madrid and a new phase will begin“, have been the words published on Twitter by the Sumar account, making it clear that in the coming weeks this movement that has been delaying for months will take place. And the response from Podemos has not been long in coming. “We have proposed closing a coalition agreement now between Podemos and Sumar and we hope that it can be done to support her in presenting her candidacy”, said the party’s national co-spokesperson Javier Sanchez Serna.
“We have proposed a coalition agreement between Podemos and Sumar, an agreement to guarantee all unity and in which the lists have to be drawn up with primaries“, the purple leader has insisted on several occasions, making it clear that they are two essential conditions for the presence of Podemos in that act in which Díaz announces that he wants to be the head of the space list. Podemos thus leaves out of a first agreement to the rest of the parties that make up Unidas Podemos, claiming its leading role.
After three months of negotiations and after having assumed that the negotiation would not close until June, after the regional and municipal elections, Podemos has made it clear that to attend that act by Díaz they must have reached a prior agreement. “Let’s hope that a coalition agreement between Podemos and Sumar is closed to be able to attend the presentation ceremony of Yolanda Díaz as everyone’s candidate,” he stressed again. Regarding relations with the rest of the parties, both those that make up the purple space –UI, In Comú Podem, Green Alliance– and the rest of the formations to the left of the PSOE –More Country, commitment, dragon tree…- has indicated that everyone will be able to “put their requirements on the table”.
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The demands of the purples contrast with the attitude adopted by the rest of the parties. The Minister of Consumption and federal coordinator of IU, Alberto Garzonhas called “very good news” that there will soon be “news” about Sumar and has assured that Díaz “incarnates in an extraordinary way” all the work carried out by the coalition government in these years. In addition, he has left a message to Podemos: “Add It is not and should not be a sum of parties” and that all energy should be devoted “to the project continuing to grow, mature and take shape.” However, in the same message posted on Twitter, he claimed that IU’s “baggage” is “enormous.”
The president of the parliamentary group of En Comú Podem in Parliament has also spoken, Jessica Albiach: “With great desire to add to make a new country possible for the next decade”. And, in addition, the also leader of Podem in Catalonia has sent a message of unity to the entire space: “The diversity becomes a virtue when we are able to put our goals ahead of everything”.