• More Madrid. Íñigo Errejón's party approves to stand for the 10-N elections

The irruption on the national stage of the Íñigo Errejón party, after its bases decided to attend the next general elections, once again tests the seams of the Spanish electoral system. And stress, again, we can. In the formation led by Pablo Iglesias for days who take his presence for granted on 10-N, which will be the Errejón himself who is present, and that his participation will be a bite in his electorate. Another derivative that they already digest is that in case Errejón takes representation in the Congress , it will be promoted as a preferred partner of Pedro Sánchez, displacing Podemos.

"Pedro Sánchez has made it clear: he would prefer to understand Errejón," assumes Iglesias. The criticisms of the PSOE since last July and the repeated attempts to seek a gesture in Citizens mean that in the purple dome they already contemplate that they have descended to two steps in the socialist preference. Errejón and Albert Rivera displace Iglesias, as long as a sum is viable with them after 10-N. The fear, again in Podemos, is that an alliance in that sense that depends on Podemos will put them back at the juncture of supporting a possible agreement or forcing new elections, which would mean very high attrition.

With the emergence of Más Madrid - it is still to determine its name for 10-N - monopolizing the news, the slogan in Podemos is to try as far as possible to avoid the matter. Turn the discourse towards the vetoes imposed by the employers to Podemos or by the need to undertake social measures such as the repeal of the labor reform, the revaluation of pensions or the intervention of the rental market. But these efforts are now vacant. Therefore, forced to talk about his former number two , Iglesias, without raising his tone, throws darts.

"Errejón said that [in Madrid ] he would support a Gabilondo agreement with Cs without asking for anything in return. Normal, nobody can be surprised that Sánchez prefers that," he said on TVE . Another dart: "We are all going to be judged by the facts and to what extent we have been faithful to our principles and our word," he reflected, referring to the escape of Errejón to ally with Carmena and his decision to leave last His commitment as a candidate of Podemos in the Community of Madrid .

This strategy aims to implicitly leave the message that Errejón is a "traitor", which is what we think of Podemos. Hence, avoid entering the dialectical confrontation, but leave the message. Of course, publicly speaking of "respect" and "legitimacy" towards the decision of More Madrid.

More Madrid could get in this community, according to projections that are handled in the demographic offices, between four and six seats, and their votes would come in a significant percentage of Podemos. That would endanger the armchairs in the Congress of members of the hard core of Iglesias such as Rafael Mayoral or Gloria Elizo .

Alliances: Compromís objective

But the emergence of Errejón can not only further displace Iglesias as a preferred option for the PSOE, but also opens a front in the territories in terms of alliances. More Madrid must determine this week if it is presented in this community or in more territories, which is the bet of the majority of the formation. There is important Valencia , with Compromís. A formation that both Errejón and Iglesias want as a partner, with which they will seek to ally.

Iglesias has already confirmed that he has maintained contacts with Mónica Oltra . "If we would like an agreement and contacts have been established and, in fact, we are not far from reaching an agreement." The leader of Podemos already pretended that in the elections of Abril Unidos Podemos and Compromís they were together, but Oltra informed him that a part of his training thought that they could obtain better results by going alone. In the end, the Valencian party went from four deputies to one. "We did better when we went together."

Another front for Iglesias is Andalucía , where the leader of Podemos, Teresa Rodríguez, has already openly stated that he wants to attend 10-N under the Adelante Andalucía brand and not as Podemos, to have his own parliamentary group integrated in United We can, as happens with Catalonia in Comú Podem or Galicia in common . He wants to do it through an agreement with Iglesias, but he closes the door. "United Podemos is presented throughout the territory. We made a primary and our candidates in Andalusia are."

That is, it leaves no room for Rodriguez's claim. Anticapitalistas resigned to participate in the primaries that Podemos did, by not sharing their conditions.

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