The gap between Podemos and Yolanda Díaz increases. The coming-out of the vice president as a candidate for the general elections with a speech in which she ignored the purple ones for being absent from that act and some subsequent demonstrations in which she assured that it would not be a “failure” for her electoral expectations to appear without that party place the relationship at an even more critical moment than it already was and remove the conditions for an understanding.
Podemos did not hide the deep discomfort that runs through the organization from top to bottom after seeing the images of the act on Sunday “campaigning” for rivals of Unidas Podemos in the May elections and after reading the interview in El País or hearing the one he gave in TVE.
“We have been surprised and concerned that he has not resoundingly opted for unity today,” said yesterday the national leadership of Podemos, which has long blamed Díaz for not having reached an agreement so that Ione Belarra was in the act at the Magariños sports center, where the alternative left to the PSOE took a photo of the opening of a new era in space.
The consequences of the sit-in not only deepen the distance between Podemos and Díaz, it is that the latter has opened an internal dispute within United Podemos between the two main parties of the coalition: the purples, who did not go, and IU, which effusively supports Díaz and that it was with a delegation of 200 people with almost the entire leadership of the organization.
The cause of this clash between the two is that Belarra ignored the requests of Alberto Garzón so that the candidates for the regional and municipal elections could attend that act. The general secretary of Podemos imposed that they stay in their homes.
This veto has caused strong anger within the IU, which considers that it was a “serious mistake” and that it was reflected in the “catastrophic result” that rivals of United We Can in May such as Mónica García and Rita Maestre, from Más Madrid, or Joan Ribó, from Compromís, had projection and prominence at the expense of their candidates when Díaz dedicated some warm words to them and made them part of his party. And it is that, the vice president gave them her affection and recognition and took photographs with them that have enormous political potential at the gates of the electoral campaign.
While Podemos blames Díaz for this attitude, the leader of the PCE, Enrique Santiago, charged the inks against the purples for imposing that they were not the candidates of United We Can. The IU leader wondered “why” this party “decides what the electoral alliance has to do” and its heads of list when, in reality, they are not exclusively its candidates but “everyone’s”, also those of the IU.
In statements on Canal Red, Santiago affirmed that from his organization they insisted on Podemos lifting that veto but that the purple leadership did not want to meet their requests. «We can decide for the IU if the candidate of all goes to the act and leaves this tremendous gap in a situation from the electoral point of view that is not favorable. At IU we are really very upset for being so irresponsible.
For the communist leader it was “obvious” that Díaz was going to greet the political forces that were in Magariños covering her but that because of Podemos what happened is that the only candidate for the Community of Madrid who was present at that act was Mónica García , from More Madrid. “They have not let us participate in that decision,” complained Santiago, who also delved into the fact that he continues to not understand “what is the underlying problem” between Podemos and Sumar. One day before Díaz’s act, Santiago already called on the United Podemos candidates to go for the opportunity that was lost. “I hope,” he said, “they don’t give up this act on the campaign trail.”
Meanwhile, in Podemos they point all their criticism at Díaz. “Today is one of those days in which the stomach must not disturb the head,” said Pablo Iglesias in RAC1, where after reading Díaz’s interview in El País he replied that if Sumar goes to the elections without Podemos “it will be a electoral and political tragedy” and a “mistake”. Later from his channel, he delved into the fact that his statements had been “irresponsible” and called on the vice president to “leave the siren songs next to her” and agree on primaries.
Meanwhile, the official reading is that she “has to decide if she wants to be the unit’s candidate” or if “she wants to go alone with Sumar to the elections.” Thus, the management stressed that it is a matter of “political will.”
Díaz avoided gestures of approaching Podemos yesterday and blamed them for not going. “Whoever is not there must explain it to the country,” he said. In any case, he refuted the excuse of Podemos. “It is not true that we have differences in the conformation of primaries,” he pointed out. In his opinion, there are other “interests” behind it, although he pointed out that he was not going to “reveal” them.
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