- Appointment with the polls. More Madrid will meet this Sunday with its bases to decide if it is presented at 10-N and if Errejón leads it
- United We Can Íñigo Errejón and Teresa Rodríguez threaten the seats in the Congress of the hard core of Pablo Iglesias
Pablo Iglesias and Íñigo Errejón was a bad political divorce. A dramatic separation that left outstanding accounts. Unresolved issues that can be substantiated next 10-N , when both meet at the polls in general elections. It was a matter of time, as Pablo Iglesias has rightly said, that Errejón became "an actor in national politics," because he never had the vocation of an autonomous leader. And that moment seems to have arrived. The moment to head an electoral list confronted with that of Pablo Iglesias. The final duel between the two souls of Podemos. The dispute of the parental rights of the creature that both lit up and which they named We can. The 10-N may be the second round of Vistalegre II , where the registered and registered will no longer vote, but the voters.
The 10-N will be the last act of a work that began with that angry cry of 15-M : "They do not represent us." A shout that became an institutional representation by the group of professors of Political Science led by the Iglesias-Errejón couple. Two different people, but very empathetic. Complementary Intellectual authorship was a matter of Errejón. The populist hypothesis destined to succeed in Spain destroyed economically and socially by the crisis of 2008. Íñigo was the head of Podemos. Paul was the heart. Errejón planned the conquest of the hills and Iglesias was launched to conquer them from the charism. Until Iglesias got tired of putting his face to apply the lessons of war of Errejón. Little by little, he got rid of all the founders of Podemos, with the exception of Juan Carlos Monedero, who is still at his side. Errejón predicted, already in the autumn of the distant 2016, that Iglesias would end up leading a new version of the United Left.
The couple began their divorce process on March 15, 2016, after the dismissal of Sergio Pascual, the first secretary of the Organization of Podemos and a trusted leader of Errejón. The final break, although without certified papers, came in January 2019, when the former number two of Podemos appeared in the Community of Madrid - where Iglesias had sent him - topping the list of More Madrid, in front of an improvised candidate for the address of Podemos: Isa Serra .
Errejón does not accept that Podemos is Pablo Iglesias and claims his role in the match
The separation left behind a devastated panorama on the stage of the coexistence of a party that bled out of success. After putting the Spanish political system in check like no other actor since the Transition , and achieving the feat of 70 seats in Congress at the first, Podemos went through the sink of internal disputes. In some of the meetings held this September by the negotiating teams of the PSOE and the United We can to try an investiture agreement of Pedro Sánchez, the representatives of the purple formation made a warning to the Socialists: «We can be Pablo Iglesias and Pablo Iglesias is Podemos ».
This is the bottom line. Íñigo Errejón does not accept that Podemos is Pablo Iglesias. And he claims his role in the birth and development of the party now disengaged and divided. Pablo Iglesias has always had the militants-registered with him. His leadership was ratified in all internal voting he promoted. From Vistalegre II, through the rejection of the investiture of the socialist Pedro Sánchez in the spring of 2016, until arriving at the purchase of his house in Galapagar . Íñigo Errejón never openly disputed the internal battle. In Vistalegre II he gave up the frontal combat, because he did not want to be the leader, he was only desperately trying to make the leader pay attention to him again, as in the days of splendor.
But he also did not give up his own political career. It claimed the intellectual authorship of Podemos, the original function of a transversal party, broad and open to collaboration with the rest of the leftist parties. "Sooner or later, Podemos voters will have to rule on the outcome of Vistalegre II," he said after Iglesias swept the assembly in February 2017.
More Madrid defends that it is "incólume" against the wear of Sánchez e Iglesias
Íñigo Errejón took refuge in Madrid, although without neglecting his national leader profile. Neither Pablo Iglesias nor anyone ever thought that autonomous politics was Errejón's dream. The adventure of Más Madrid with Manuela Carmena had a bitter result because the mayor lost her position and the right-wing won in the Community, but the founder of Podemos lived a sweet night. He beat the list of Podemos. Madrid voters were the first to pronounce on the outcome of Vistalegre II and their verdict was different from that of those registered. Errejón's list achieved 20 seats and 14.6%. That of Isa Serra, candidate of Iglesias, seven seats and 5.16%. He entered the regional Parliament by the hair.
As he did at other times during the divorce process, Íñigo Errejón has retired these days to his private desert to meditate. The desert of the lack of communication with the outside. In a few days, once the elections are called, he will announce if he will finally present his list on 10-N. It is not easy or comfortable. It is not the same to stand up to Isa Serra than to Pablo Iglesias. The sources of More Madrid consulted ensure that "reality conspires and drags" Errejón to attend the generals in charge of the third party of the Spanish left. This Sunday the party will hold an extraordinary meeting with its militants to analyze the possible candidacy.
There is great pressure and media expectation on former number two of Podemos. The hypothesis that could be presented by an interposed person - Manuela Carmena has already said no - is not on the table, according to those sources. No one would understand very well that it was not he who gave the face, after everything that happened around Podemos.
The photo of Errejón with Bescansa or Alegre would be a blow to the leader of Podemos
On the impact that Errejón's candidacy could have on the elections there are different opinions and great uncertainty. The majority of Podemos voters, according to a La Sexta poll, positively see Errejón's candidacy. The management of the PSOE believes that "it will do brutal damage to Podemos" only by presenting lists in Madrid or in two or three other districts such as Valencia or Barcelona . Other socialists, however, are suspicious of the negative consequences this new fragmentation of the left might have at the polls. Many analysts believe that it could also subtract votes from the PSOE.
Íñigo Errejón would be the great novelty of the electoral repetition. In its favor it has the wear and tear that the PSOE and United We have suffered in the frustrated negotiations for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. According to his collaborators, the leader of Más Madrid “appears before the citizens untouched and clean, as a representative of a more moderate, open and dialogic left that United We Can” and “could be a revulsion against abstention, by attracting those voters who could refrain from his disenchantment at the failure of the negotiation for a progressive government in Spain ».
The hypothetical photo of Errejón surrounded by the founders of Podemos that fell into ostracism, such as Carolina Bescansa or Luis Alegre , would be a hard emotional blow in campaign for Pablo Iglesias. The socialist leader has received with rocket the hypothesis of a list headed by former number two of Podemos.
The controversy
The PP against Vox
The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, did what many PP leaders would have liked to do many times since the appearance of Vox. The alderman faced Vox, face to face and on the street, in the person of Javier Ortega Smith. In defense of the institutional banner of the City Council against «gender violence». There are many leaders of the PP who stir internally each time someone from the party points out that Vox and the PP represent the same. The majority of these leaders consider that in the next electoral campaign Pablo Casado must do the opposite that in the last one. That is, make it clear that Vox and PP are not the same.
Citizens
Rivera's mood
Albert Rivera tries to breathe optimism into the delicate mood of his party, which polls predict a considerable setback at the polls. At the end of the last plenary session of the Congress of this short term, Rivera held a meeting with journalists in which he tried to convince them that the elections do not look as bad for Cs as reflected in the media. According to his version, voters who can go to the PSOE are almost residual and he hopes that his last-minute proposal to abstain from the investiture of Pedro Sánchez serves to underpin his status as a responsible party.
The road to 10-N
"What kind of campaign?"
The addresses of all political parties are restless, worried and alarmed by an election campaign that will be the third in four months and will officially last only one week. Both from the point of view of resources, which will be less according to the reform of the law of 2016, as well as the need to find new messages with which to reach the electorate. Everyone agrees that it would be silly to cover the time from here to 10-N based on distributing blame on the electoral repetition. "What kind of campaign are we going to do in these circumstances?" Is the question that many do not let them sleep.
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