The management expected that there would not be such unanimous support after being separated from the negotiations with the PSOE.
Participation has been higher than in the last purple consultations, exceeding 55,000 votes
Can has the support of its bases so that its five deputies support the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. An endorsement that has attracted 86.09% of ‘yes’ compared to 13.7% against. The support has been massive, far from highlighting the doubts that exist in the purple militancy when it comes to giving the green light to a Government of which they will not be part, after Yolanda Díaz has left them out of the distribution of ministries. Participation has been higher than expected according to the latest consultations of the purples, reaching more than 55,000 votes.
The general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarralaunched the consultation last week limiting its support “exclusively” to the investiture and making his discomfort with the PSOE noticeably visible, which he accused of not having responded to his requests for a bilateral negotiation and issuing a harsh warning: there is no agreement that links Podemos with the Government this term. He thus departed from the pact signed between Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz and reiterated his threat to put the coalition through an ordeal in each vote in the Congress of Deputies.
The question
The very approach of the consultation was direct and without adjectives: “Should we Podemos deputies support the investiture of Pedro Sánchez?“was the question. An extremely sober formulation that did not enter into considerations that the alternative to supporting the investiture is an electoral repetition. In his own statement, Belarra sent a message to those who were against supporting the investiture, showing his “I respect“to this position due to the grievances suffered by Yolanda Díaz and Sumar in recent months.
The coldness when asking for the Support for Sánchez’s investiture was not accidental. In the purple dome they have focused more on trying to achieve good results in terms of participation – hence the consultation lasted almost five days – that the votes were massively affirmative. The objective was to far exceed the little more than 30,000 votes that Podemos managed to mobilize to support its new roadmap, a poor mobilization that, they considered in the party, would be greatly surpassed in this consultation, as it has been.
Staging the discomfort with Díaz
The leadership hoped that the results would endorse the official position -support for the investiture- but at the same time they were convinced that the ‘noes’ also They would reveal the strong discomfort that exists around the figure of Yolanda Díaz; a state of mind that was already visible during the debate process of the new Podemos roadmap, where dozens of meetings were held with militancy with harsh criticism of the Galician leader, which were reflected in the final document.