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Despite the fact that Íñigo Errejón's face appeared very large on the ballots of Más País, the former founder of Podemos has not managed to become, as he intended, a national reference of the left. In the first time he faced Pablo Iglesias at the polls, his candidacy has been a failure and he has not been able to mobilize the abstentionists and those disenchanted with the purple formation and the PSOE.

With 99% scrutinized, the coalition that makes up with Compromís, Equo and Chunta Aragonesista has only won three seats and 575,000 votes. During the Errejón campaign he had been convinced that he was going to have his own parliamentary group and has been far away. Last night he did not hide his disappointment after knowing his "modest" results. «Obviously we would have preferred them, but we entered the Congress. It is the first time that we attended some generals and we have sown a seed that we will water ”, he apologized. Even Iglesias sent comfort: "This may be the most difficult day of Errejón, an affectionate hug." "I'm glad they send me hugs, I also send warm hugs," replied the leader of More Country. Of the 18 constituencies in which they were presented, they have only obtained representation in two. In Madrid, Errejón and Marta Higueras , Manuela Carmena's right hand , enter, but Inés Sabané s stays out. If it does not happen to be for Compromís, who contributes a deputy in Valencia - Joan Baldoví - who already brought from 28-A, they would have stayed only in two seats. More Country clicks in La Coruña - Carolina Bescansa does not get a seat-, Pontevedra, Murcia, Barcelona, ​​Granada, Tenerife ... The batacazo is monumental.

What these results confirm is the failure of a brand that broke in just eight weeks ago and has not finished curdling. When More Country was born, the polls gave him up to 7% of intention to vote. Then it began to decline and that 7% became 2%. In the final stretch of the campaign, no survey gave Errejón more than four or five seats, two thanks to Compromís. Errejón had even said that 15 deputies were expected, five times more than what was achieved.

Why have they done so badly? Possibly they have taken a toll on how quickly they have had to improvise a national party. Except in Madrid, they have barely had time to make themselves known. And it is likely that the constant changes of direction of Errejón have squeaked in the electorate: from fleeing from Podemos to mount a candidacy in Madrid and finally abandoning it to lead a unipersonalist project designed, in a way, to guarantee its political survival.

He has also missed the shot by putting the focus of the campaign on political "unlocking" when the star theme has been Catalonia , an issue that has been elusive. Nor has his challenge to the space that Ada Colau dominates with the mark of the commons worked . And Carmena has not helped him much, who has only intervened in two rallies and, at the close of the campaign, made a full- blown trolley by falling apart in flattery towards Irene Montero . On the other hand, it is likely that he has also been a victim of regional stigma, which makes it difficult for autonomous implementation parties to transfer their full force to a general election.

And now that? Errejón should reflect very seriously on how to deal with these terrible results. His initial intention was not so much to steal votes from the left, but to mobilize abstentionists and to be decisive to form a government and not have to repeat elections in a few months, but it does not seem that he has mobilized much, beyond making Easter to Podemos, the formation where 10 of its 18 list heads came from. In these 10 constituencies, the purples have worsened, and have lost two deputies in Malaga and Las Palmas .

So Errejón's ability to add is in doubt. Also his leadership. Its political future is an uncertainty: To build bridges of reconciliation with the UP or to approach the PSOE? Follow alone? And what will happen in Más Madrid, because his jump to national politics has ruled it out?

"We can't go to third elections"

"Irresponsibility". Errejón led last night to the idea that these elections have been "an irresponsibility" that "should not have occurred" and hoped that "we will not repeat the sainete, which has thinned the political climate." He offered to "help from now", although he admitted that he has not yet spoken with Sánchez or Iglesias. "I hope nobody is so irresponsible to take us to a third election," he said. What has happened to go from a forecast of 15 deputies to three? "It is dangerous when politics becomes a dance of expectations," he replied.

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