• Pedro Sánchez seeks to suffocate Pablo Iglesias with the support of his partners and try to give up

United We have taken advantage of August to give cement shovels on its walls in order to avoid cracks in the face of the intense weeks ahead. The wounds left by the failed negotiation with the PSOE in July, in which some partners were unmarked from Podemos and were in favor of accepting Pedro Sánchez's proposal for a programmatic agreement and not a coalition, undermine the political position of the party. Therefore, members of the state leadership of Podemos, IU and the Catalan and Galician sectors have made group therapy in recent days, working on the proposal launched on Tuesday to the Socialists and closing ranks to avoid an image of weakness that Ballast a possible negotiation. "Cohesion" is the slogan that prevails in United We face a new dialogue with the PSOE.

In the previous negotiation, IU and a sector of the commons were more likely to agree with the PSOE, investing Sanchez in exchange for only a pact in the government program or accepting the coalition offered by the Socialists at the last moment.

Equo, also a member of the confederal group, made for example a consultation to its bases, in which 69.9% ruled in favor of supporting Pedro Sánchez, while 24.7% were in favor of voting in the opposite direction .

It also caused cracks that the dialogue was piloted by Pablo Echenique and Ione Belarra , members of the hard core of Podemos, excluding IU - despite the fact that the Government appealed to Alberto Garzón as a mediator at the last minute - the commons and Galicia in Common . This, in the opinion of some sectors, prevented communicative fluency. In the previous agreement between Sánchez and Iglesias, the budgetary politician who signed in October 2018 in La Moncloa , members of all sectors of United Podemos participated.

"Absolute cohesion"

These dissensions are very present for the PSOE and for Moncloa and that is why the Socialist Executive, as this newspaper reported, will probe the four political forces that support Podemos in the parliamentary coalition (IU, In Comú Podem, Galicia in Common and Equo) in an attempt to convince them to avoid the repetition of the elections after the "embarrassment" of the investiture.

Iglesias assumes that he cannot afford weak flanks and dissensions that diminish his position. Therefore, the official slogan is that of the unit of action. Both he and his party are playing their political future in the next month. "The cohesion of the confederal group is absolute. We appoint a negotiating team in which all the political formations that are part of the confederal group are present. The negotiation will be with United We can, not with its parts," said Echenique, secretary of We Can Government Action.

If before it was only Echenique and Belarra, now the negotiating team will be joined by Jaume Asens (In Comú Podem), Yolanda Díaz (Galicia in Common), Enrique Santiago (IU-PCE) and Juantxo López de Uralde (Equo).

"Agreed proposal"

In an attempt to heal wounds and weave a shield before the PSOE's concerns, Iglesias has opted for a collective work to prepare the proposed government program sent this week. "We have been working all August on the document that on Tuesday saw the public light and we will continue to do so in the confederal framework. This political proposal that we propose unites the entire confederal group and is agreed," they point out from Galicia in Common.

From En Comú Podem, his deputy and member of the Bureau of Congress, Gerardo Pisarello , admitted that in United We can "there are different positions and sensitivities, and it is good that this is so. In all parties there are different sensibilities." Of course, in an interview at RNE he said that "the group does not run the risk of breaking down; we have always voted in a unified way." Sources of the commons indicate that they have not had contacts with the PSOE and that, "in case it was so, the PSOE is wrong trying to find divisions when all there is is a plural confederal group, but cohesive, around the idea of the need for a coalition. "

In the case of the commons , the resignation on the part of Iglesias to request a referendum agreed as a solution to the independence challenge in Catalonia , as he has always defended this formation, caused friction. In fact, its main leaders, whenever they have been able to publicly, have explained that they do not renounce that route and that, in fact, it will be their proposal at a hypothetical dialogue table with the Government.

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