The purple ones also break with Más Madrid, IU and Ganemos in Tres Cantos
At the limit of the date to register the coalitions that will concur on May 28, Podemos has broken the pre-agreement not written that the local formations of Más MadridEquo, UI and Can they had in Rivas and there will be no left-wing coalition in this Madrid town of nearly 100,000 inhabitants. Nor in Three songs, where the same parties more let’s win They had even presented a document with the basic “programmatic points”, also agreed with Podemos. If there was any trace of what Sumar could be in the Community of Madrid, Thursday afternoon has disappeared.
Rivas is the IU’s historic stronghold, where the left has governed since 1991, and the three formations that will run together still trusted, a few hours after Podemos broke any possibility of agreement, that the miracle would work. But it could not be and in IU, which does appear in coalition with Podemos and Green Alliance to the Madrid Assemblyhave attributed the cause in writing in a statement to a strategic decision of the national leadership of Podemos, in which they also point out that the regional organization has done everything possible to make the confluence a reality: “Izquierda Unida Rivas has wanted to show its support for Podemos Rivas, which has not been able to be included in this coalition due to decision of your state address throughout the Madrid region, but with those who share government and ideas and want to continue doing so in the future. They affirm that not a single reproach or criticism of his candidacy will be heard Vanessa Millan nor to his team or to the militancy of Podemos Rivas. As well as the general secretary of Podemos in Madrid, who has done everything possible because Podemos will be part of the coalition “.
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Two prepared lists
IU, Más Madrid and Equo had two lists prepared this week, “one alone and another with Podemos”, as recognized in two of these parties, because although the purple formation in Rivas was committed to the agreement, it pointed to the need for the decision to be ratified by higher authorities and in the other formations they were suspicious of the decision that the regional leadership could make and national. The fact that this confluence was headed by UI It made the different parties think that this could facilitate the negotiation and that Podemos would give in, but in the end this has not happened.
Something similar has happened in Three songsalthough the candidacy is headed here by Más Madrid. Alejandra Jacinto, candidate for Unidas Podemos in Madrid, and Mónica García made it clear months ago that their formations would not come together at the regional level and that municipality by municipality would have to be studied if there could be any confluence. But since Yolanda Díaz presented Sumar on April 2 and it became clear that Más Madrid would be on her side while in Can they revolt because they do not conceive of being just one more party in this amalgamation of leftist forces that make up Sumar, the possibilities of these two municipalities of Madrid began to disappear. Although the formations of each of these municipalities had already agreed, the message that Jacinto has launched since April 2 is that Más Madrid has never wanted the union of the formations of the left in the Community. Those of García, on the other hand, argue that Podemos has never made a balanced proposal.
“Do not display Add”
Teresa Zuritathe number one of the coalition in Tres Cantos, acknowledges to this newspaper that she learned of Podemos’ decision this Wednesday through the media. More Madrid, Let’s win, Izquierda Unida and Verdes Equo they had been negotiating “since November,” he explains, and Can joined in February. “He came with some very high demands, but little by little they gradually modulated until they reached an agreement between all of them,” he points out. But since they received the yes from the local candidate, everything has slowed down because the regional leadership did not give its ok.
From let’s winanother of the formations that appear in coalition in this municipality and has acted as “hinge“between Podemos and the rest of the formations, its spokesman Federico More ensures that the list and the program were agreed upon and “there were no problems” and point out that the decision is purely “strategic of we can national“, since they had not even presented “specific requests” to be included in this candidacy so that it could be negotiated. In Podemos, he points out, “they are willing to die.”
“They do it so that nothing that could look like Sumar and Yolanda is not displayed”, point to one of the formations that is affected by the breakup of Podemos in these two municipalities. “It is an erroneous decision by Podemos in the Community of Madrid,” they insist in Ganemos, convinced that “in the towns they do not want” this to happen.