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Reunion in the heart of a hive.

, hit by a heat wave that has shot the mercury above 40 degrees, has witnessed this Saturday a photograph that is as relevant as it is unusual at the national level of our politics: the hug between Ione Belarra and Yolanda Díaz, united for the first time in months in an organic act to support the candidate for Por Andalucía,

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It had been half a year since the second vice president of the Government and the Minister of Social Rights had not shared a stage outside the institutional focus.

And fourteen months since the last time they rallied together.

This Saturday, both have joined forces and put aside public discrepancies to demand from the progressive electorate an effort for the last blow of the campaign and thus try to neutralize the sum of right-wing forces, to which all the polls give a comfortable probability of governing in the Junta de Andalucía.

The idea has been synthesized by Belarra minutes before merging into a hug of almost a minute with Díaz under applause: we must "work hard in this last week of the campaign" to avoid a low turnout of the left-wing electorate.

The Labor Minister, for her part, has called for a massive vote from the trade union world.

"Despite the sadness and fear, give us a chance", asked the vice-president, who for the first time has publicly outlined her intention to take a step forward "to win Spain" through the project she is preparing and which will start after passing through the ballot box in Andalusia.

Grandson, "the big surprise"

No one in the universe of Por Andalucía denies the poor prognosis calculated by the polls for the coalition led by Inma Nieto.

“They say the polls are not favorable.

But the elections are not decided by the polls”, the vice president used to try to revive an electorate that, according to Belarra, has more electoral options than between “the bad and the worst”, in relation to the PP of Juanma Moreno and Vox with Macarena Olona.

Nieto will be "the great surprise of the campaign," she asserted yesterday in Córdoba to try, in addition, to elevate the candidate with her direct rival, who is Teresa Rodríguez.

The staging of Díaz in tune with the leadership of Podemos comes a few hours after the second vice president coincides on stage with Íñigo Errejón to campaign for the first time.

The leader of Más País and Podemos will not share rallies and cool down the chances of rapprochement at the same time that both parties try to show harmony with Díaz.

However, the idea that Díaz and Errejón alone lead an act in Malaga this Sunday does not please the purple ranks.

In fact, Podemos will seek to counter-schedule the appointment and divert the focus with the indirect entry into the campaign of his great figure.

Pablo Iglesias will present his book at the same time in San Fernando (Cádiz).

An event that will be broadcast live and will be attended by the party apparatus in Andalusia, led by Juan Antonio Delgado.

Wink to Anguita

Córdoba -and the Andalusian campaign in general- is full of historical references for the left at a time when uncertainty has taken hold of the progressive forces, waiting to know the future of the elections in Andalusia and with their sights set also in the race to the polls at the national level.

With just over two weeks to go before Madrid hosts the NATO summit, the position of the purple branch of the Government is harshly critical of this celebration.

This Saturday, Por Andalucía has chosen an iconic place in Córdoba to highlight its position against the Atlantic Alliance and the war escalation in Ukraine: the Axerquía Theater.

In this enclave, the historic IU leader Julio Anguita led an act of rejection of NATO in the 1990s.

After his death, the Axerquía was filled again (3,800 seats) to commemorate the first anniversary of his death in 2021.

Now, the two great leaders of United We Can, who will not attend the summit but will not counterprogram it either -as IU will do with its participation in an alternative act- stage the thaw between Podemos and its leader in pectore in the place where for a long time decades the left has boasted of muscle.

In fact, Anguita's widow, María Agustina Martín, was present at the event.

The theater, standing up, gave her an ovation at the same time that

sang .

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