Yolanda Díaz will not tiptoe through the electoral campaign. After a long time of threats and calculated uncertainty, sources close to the second vice president confirm that she will assume a leading role and that she will celebrate approximately the same events as Pedro Sánchez. They will be “very many”, these sources emphasize, she will be “on a par” with what the leader of the PSOE does.

This means that Sumar’s candidate will be involved in the regional and municipal elections on May 28 with a significant number of public appearances and that she will be seen in many corners of Spain holding rallies. Far from the forecasts for months to reduce the influence of her to Barcelona.

Although this confirmation, a priori, could sound good to Podemos, which has been pressuring Díaz for some time to demonstrate his leadership in space by assuming the challenge of campaigning, it would not meet purple expectations. And it is that, what Ione Belarra’s management would like is for the vice president to turn to supporting the United Podemos candidates in acts with them and in a more explicit way than a photo.

But the circumstances surrounding Díaz’s campaign are still unclear. She continues without informing Podemos of what she plans to do and is wary of where, how and with whom she will do acts. The sources consulted do confirm that the leader of Sumar will be in the Community of Madrid and the Valencian Community. In other words, she will not shy away from the two most politically hot spots in the May elections. What is unknown is how she will reconcile the crossed interests that arise in both autonomies, where Más Madrid and Compromís compete against candidacies headed by Podemos. Or what is the same. Two of the parties that have supported Sumar the most and have aligned themselves with Díaz are facing lists led by a party that, for the moment, is not only not in tune with Sumar, but has raised a public struggle with him over the control of the future candidacy to the generals. To make this puzzle more difficult, in the candidacies of Podemos is IU, which is one of the vital supports of Sumar. with the commons.

Who will you campaign for? For the two candidates? Díaz will be in Madrid for San Isidro, where he could act like on May 1st in the demonstrations. Photos with Mónica García (Más Madrid) and photos with Alejandra Jacinto (Unidas Podemos). This dichotomy does not satisfy Podemos in any way, which demands its own.

While Díaz fits his own calendar of events, in Podemos they close theirs without counting on the vice president to try to raise the results in the places where they have the most problems. Thus, the purple address has its road map and in it the general secretary, Ione Belarra, and her number two, Irene Montero, will throw the elections on their backs. The first will participate in more than 15 acts and the second will do around 12.

Purple sources highlight that, under the slogan Courage to Transform, Belarra, Montero and the rest of the leaders will tour “all” the autonomous communities and will put “a special effort” in the places where they seek to revalidate the autonomous coalition governments (Valencian Community, Aragon , Balearic or Canary Islands).

The leaders of Podemos will hold numerous events together with the IU leadership, since both share 10 regional candidacies (all except Aragon and Asturias) and a multitude of municipal candidacies, as in the vast majority of provincial capitals. The joint acts planned with leaders of both formations are already around ten.

The Unidas Podemos campaign will start on Friday the 12th in Valencia and will close on the 26th in Madrid.

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