Can drag your feet towards a deal with Add. This Friday at midnight the deadline to register the coalition led by Yolanda Díaz and the party of Ione Belarra expires enter the final stretch trying to push with the times to gain positions, but knowing that in this case they have more to lose than to gain. He risk of collapse is real in the purple ranks, with the threat of fracture in case of not reaching an understanding with Sumar. Negotiations continue at a slow pace, but with little progress and the feeling is that an understanding will finally be reached, forced by the delicate situation in the party.
in the last hours the territories of Podemos have launched serious warnings to the purple dome, which to date has avoided opening an internal debate on how to approach the negotiations, and which last week entrenched itself in top positions. The executive defends the thesis that she should occupy a role “determinant & rdquor; in the project.
They want this maxim to be matched with a broad presence on the lists and with deputies secured in three key places: Madrid, Valencian Community and Cataloniawhere Podemos does not have a presence and where the reference parties are Más Madrid, Compromís and Catalunya en Comú, the formation of Ada Colau. These requests are the main stumbling block in the negotiations, which despite the reproaches between the different allies, continue to advance with Podemos.
“We want to send a message of optimism, things are going well, it is a complex puzzle but the conversations are advancing. We will not wait until the last minute to close the dealbut it does convey that the talks are advancing at a very good pace and that we are optimistic to start giving news very soon,” Sumar’s new campaign spokesman defended this Wednesday, Ernest Urtasún, from Seville. Less enthusiastic was Ione Belarra, who showed his intention to “close an agreement as soon as possible.” “Podemos has been where he’s always been, which is working for unity. When we have news we will send it to you“, he defended.
risk of rupture
Enthusiasm, in any case, is not the reason that leads Podemos to the agreement. The party is aware that, if it maintains its positions, it faces a serious risk of rupture which would result in a “disbandment & rdquor; of pictures that would go to integrate into Yolanda Díaz’s project without the mediation of Podemoswarn space sources. An emptying, in short, that would leave the diminished organization and in a more fragile position to go to the polls alone.
Sources of the purple formation suggest that it is foreseeable that the term of the negotiation expires, against what Díaz wanted to reach the agreement in time. A circumstance that is common in the negotiating style of the purple ones, who tend to push the conversations to the limit. But the deal is only way to ensure the survival of the partyin organic terms. The The pressure to go on the Sumar lists is maximum for Belarra, even more so after the wave of requests from the territories.
“The agreement is the mandate of the executive”
One of the latest has been the candidate for the Community of Madrid, Alejandra Jacinto, who has claimed to reach an agreement without having unity “as a fetish & rdquor ;, but understanding it as a way of doing politics. The step goes in the same direction it was jesus saintsregional leader of Podemos in the capital, who also claimed adherence to Sumar last week, but acquires more relevance, being Jacinto, one of the trusted people of the Podemos executive. The purple ministers turned to supporting her during the electoral campaign, and she is now one of the voices that also asks to smooth the pact.
The leader of the Extremaduran federation, Michael’s Irenehas been perhaps the clearest, going so far as to ask “take a step to the side & rdquor; whoever was an obstacle to this end, because “the mandate that the executive of Podemos has It is reaching an agreement and you have to do it & rdquor ;. “Those who do not believe in unity have to step aside, leave those of us who believe that unity is the way and that it must also be done to excite people,” he said on Canal Extremadura, after its regional management -Citizen Council- unanimously support joining Sumar. “We have transferred it to the general secretary and the organization secretary& rdquor ;, defended De Miguel, who claimed to his party “modesty” in the negotiations and assume “assignments & rdquor ;, after the results of last May 28.
Escape threat
The leader of Podemos in Navarre, Begona Alfaroalso warned of the “impressive irresponsibility” that not reaching an agreement with Sumar would mean, at the same time that he issued a veiled warning about the possibility of leaving Podemos: “If there is no agreement, we will assess what to do; It would be irresponsible because it could red carpet to the right”, defended Alfaro. The leader of Podemos in Galicia, Borja San Ramonasked this Wednesday “generosity” and pointed out that “agreement is not resignation”. “What is necessary must be made possible”.
Also in the last hours in the Valencian Community, Podem militants and officials have promoted a manifesto in which they claim to join “in a broad confluence structured from Sumar& rdquor;, with primaries to choose the candidacies for the general elections on July 23.
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Those of today are not the first voices to speak in this sense. In recent days they have also done it in Balearicswhere your candidate Antonia Jover, considered pro-government, called for the agreement after assuming responsibilities and making his position available to the party. She did it after the former Balearic vice president of Podemos, Pedro Yllaneswill charge hard against the purple dome, asking for his resignation and demanding the dissolution to integrate into Sumar.
The federation of Podemos in Canary Islands He also released a statement over the weekend defending his “unequivocal” commitment to unity around Sumar, while the candidate for Asturias, Covadonga Tomereleased another statement making himself available to Yolanda Díaz for the generals.
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Also in Podemos Aragonwhere their leader Maru Diaz is considered pro-government, they released a statement making their positions available to the militancy after 23J and calling on the state leadership to “throw the rest & rdquor; to achieve “unity in general and revalidate a coalition government.”
The federation of Podemos in Euskadi, led by Pilar Garridoalready threw herself into the arms of Yolanda Díaz during the electoral campaign, and after multiple calls for the agreement between Podemos and Sumar, it would be one of the profiles that could join the ranks of the vice president of the Government without major problems in the event that, In a new script twist, the agreement was twisted.