Yolanda Díaz accelerates her separation from Podemos with Ukraine before presenting her new political project

• Politics Yolanda Díaz closes ranks with Pedro Sánchez on sending weapons while Podemos reiterates that it is "a mistake"

• Andalusia Yolanda Díaz rules out promoting a candidacy for the Andalusian elections

• Sánchez now announces that Spain will send offensive material to Ukraine

A firm first step.

Yolanda Díaz is relying on the political crisis that the Government is suffering regarding the shipment of weapons to Ukraine to disregard Podemos and distance itself from the main party in the universe United We Can a few weeks after officially launching his presidential career through a "listening process" with citizens throughout Spain.

The lack of harmony between the second vice-president of the Government and Podemos was evidence, but in the last 48 hours it has increased with the definition of its own profile with which to repudiate the

who frontally reject that Spain sends -since this Friday - bilaterally to the Ukrainian resistance war material with which to defend themselves against the offensive of the Russian army.

A contrast that shows the lack of harmony between the

party and the also Minister of Labor, who will not launch her political plan until the campaign for the general elections.

A decision - outlined this Thursday by ensuring that she will not present her platform in Andalusia for the regional elections - that harms United We Can, lacking electoral momentum at the territorial level.

Two gestures that denote that Díaz handles a different roadmap than the one proposed from the Podemos apparatus.

The spark that definitively lit the fire between Yolanda Díaz and Podemos started at the end of this Tuesday, with the change of criteria, by surprise, of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.

discrepancies

The decision to finally send weapons to Ukraine was a 180-degree turn from what was agreed within the Government at the beginning of the crisis.

The measure ended the cohesion between the PSOE and United We Can -which to date had been "satisfied" with Sánchez's low profile- and opened the channel to the

in the corridors of Congress.

While Ione Belarra and Irene Montero warned that the government was "contributing" to the escalation of the war, Díaz closed ranks: "The president has our full support."

A divergence that Podemos sources excused as a mere friction born of a "communicative" disagreement.

But this Thursday it became clear that it was neither a specific error nor the coalition enjoys the health it presumes: Díaz assumed the speech expressed by the socialist sector of the Government in recent days and assured that the Executive has "a single voice" - verbatim, the same expression used by the government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, last Tuesday- about the conflict in Ukraine, which is that of President Sánchez.

From Podemos, Belarra confirmed the clash and accused the PSOE and Yolanda Díaz of making a "mistake".

And Irene Montero deepened the open wound: "We think that sending weapons is not going to be an effective tool", while pointing out that the Executive of which she is a part has not bet enough on the path of dialogue and diplomacy .

Diaz's project

The fracture comes at a sensitive time: approximately one month after Yolanda Díaz begins a six-month tour throughout Spain in which she will meet with numerous civil society actors to meet their demands for the design of her future political platform .

A project with which she intends to unify the formations to the left of the PSOE and broaden the scope of the United We Can space.

In addition to, inevitably, transcending the political brand that ended bipartisanship in Spain to manage to scratch all the possible votes for the PSOE and reactivate the progressive electorate that lost confidence in the

in recent years.

In Podemos they assume that Díaz's future broad front is "the only way" possible for the formation to survive, but the reality is that the vice president hardly pays attention to the needs of the party led for seven and a half years by Pablo Iglesias.

This Thursday, in the midst of controversy over his break with Belarra and Montero, he ruled out that he was going to propose the start of his project in Andalusia, the next electoral scenario and propitious like no other region to be an electoral laboratory for the left: the Andalusian progressive space is divided in four games.

For weeks there was talk of the possibility that Díaz would have to reunify the left in Andalusia and take advantage of that push in the face of future general elections.

But no.

The Andalusian case

As the second vice president of the Executive assured this Thursday in an interview on

, it is neither the time to launch its platform in Andalusia nor what it has in mind is "to add acronyms".

In any case, her plan "is not going to reach" some hypothetical elections in the Andalusian territory, so it will focus exclusively on focusing it in the face of a national candidacy.

The question is whether it will be able to mobilize the electoral base of Podemos, until now the political axis of the United We Can space.

"To build a country project as I would like to do, we cannot do it without a community as important as Andalusia," he assured.

The decision not to act politically in territorial processes delves into the loneliness with which Podemos and Izquierda Unida are facing the latest regional elections, where they chain failures and bumps at the polls.

The recent elections in Castilla y León, in fact, were proof of the need in the

ranks to have the presence of Yolanda Díaz and mobilize the electorate.

The second vice president hardly appeared in the region to campaign, under the pretext that she was focused on carrying out the validation of the labor reform and the increase in the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI).

Result: United We Can lost a third of the votes and was left with a prosecutor in the Cortes.

Six years ago it had a dozen seats.

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