Díaz distances himself from Podemos but not from populism

The presentation of the candidacy of Yolanda Díaz to preside over the Government of Spain confirms the appearance of a new political actor that cannot leave anyone indifferent. In case there was any doubt, yesterday it became clear that the purpose of Sumar is to throw Podemos off the board and form an alliance much closer to Sánchez's PSOE. The act could serve as a boost for a left-wing electorate that was depressed and demobilized, although beyond the artifice it will be necessary to see what

Your electoral trajectory has. Of all the candidates the next 28-M who wrapped her yesterday -

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The act of exaltation of the new candidate was above all the ratification of the schism with Podemos. Diaz gathered all the purged and splintered from

. Everyone understood that, by declaring herself "free of guardianship", the vice president made it clear that she does not intend to heed the daily warnings issued by the former leader of Podemos, the person who appointed her as successor. The Sumar project condemns training

to a residual space, which in large part is the one that she herself has sought by bowing to the dictates of Iglesias and that faces the municipal and regional elections in May with even worse prospects than those of Díaz's allies. The future of Sumar depends largely on the ashes that remain of Podemos after 28-M. The candidacy of Yolanda Díaz

, but it is no coincidence that he has presented it on the eve of the regional and municipal elections, where it is Podemos who is examined.

The instability that this may bring to the Government of Spain, a party in three currents, is taken for granted, but that does not make it any less dramatic considering the challenges that Spanish society is going through.

And yesterday he set it out clearly. His goal is to revive a Podemos without Podemos and, in this sense, the program he outlined in his long speech is a sum of the vices of left-wing populism, including the defense of identity laws such as Trans, the formulation of an illiberal feminism and public spending as the only economic policy.

For its part, the PP is also concerned about the new candidacy, which provides an opportunity to reaffirm its position in defense of the liberal values that Spain needs and that projects like Díaz's threaten. The Vice-President herself addressed yesterday to

as the undisputed leader of the opposition and so the popular president must respond, with proposals in defense of freedom, the market economy and equal opportunities, in the face of subsidized society and the endemic deficit proposed by the

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