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Pablo Echenique rejects that the new political movement sponsored by Yolanda Díaz is something different from United We Can, after Pedro Sánchez completely ignored this electoral brand and proposed a future government coalition between the PSOE and "the space that represents" the second vice president .

"Yolanda Díaz's space is United We Can", the purple

spokesman sentenced a day later

, who limited the meaning of the expression he used to the Prime Minister to the brand and which Díaz did not challenge when he was asked today about.

The branding of Echenique, reminding Díaz that her space is limited to the coalition formed basically by Podemos and Izquierda Unida, occurs in a context of strong internal dispute about the role that she wants to grant to political parties and their leaders.

The vice president, who maintains a distant relationship with the leadership of Podemos, has been reiterating that political organizations must go into the background and is drawing the need for a new space in which the parties are not the "protagonists", but rather be "citizenship".

Asked about it, Echenique says that "there is not much to scratch there", in the words of Sánchez, however, when he has alluded to the two options for the future that the President of the Government raised, to sign that he agrees, he has made a reformulation of his words to defend his party.

"We think it is very good that the Prime Minister has made it clear that in Spain there are only two options: a coalition between Feijóo and Abascal or a coalition between the PSOE and United We Can".

Echenique has rejected that United We Can have felt uncomfortable after Sánchez did not mention them and has preferred to focus on the fact that with the dichotomy proposed by Sánchez, the president has "rectified" the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, and his hand outstretched to the PP.

"Reaching out to the PP is giving wings to Vox", he has said.

Despite the ups and downs of their relationship as government partners, both Sánchez and Díaz understand that their horizon only goes through a new understanding after the next elections.

That their prospects that the right will not govern will force them to join forces again.

Yours and, surely, those of other parliamentary partners.

That is why the second vice president has accepted the invitation of the Prime Minister to form a tandem to stop the right-wing bloc.

“I share with the president that we are going to work, collaborate and give a message of encouragement to our country that is suffering a lot, first from the pandemic and now from a war caused by Putin,” Díaz explained in an interview on La 1.

The vice president is the leader of the United We Can space in the Government but, however, she has not yet officially confirmed that she will be the candidate for the Presidency.

She protects herself in what she calls a "listening process" that will soon take her on a tour of Spain to meet with agents and groups from all sectors and types.

A tour that was postponed due to the economic crisis that is shaking Spain and the war in Ukraine.

But despite this lack of official confirmation, everyone in United We Can and also in the PSOE take it for granted that she will be the candidate.

In fact, the Socialists trust that their image will drive the

purple

space to improve the latest data obtained by Pablo Iglesias and that it can move between 11 and 13% of the votes, to be able to add with them but, at the same time, without being able to demand more quotas of power in a coalition.

Díaz announced this Tuesday his intention to resume the "listening process" "in a few days" and has asked for "tranquility" regarding his candidacy.

"I am looking forward to starting this open conversation with Spanish society," he said.

"As soon as I can, I am going to start this process very calmly in a society that yearns for winds of change and that, moreover, knows perfectly well that Feijóo is the past," he stressed.

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