• Government Pedro Sánchez delays Yolanda Díaz and does not specify the meeting on the coalition pact

  • Politics Sánchez summons his coalition partners to settle the differences: "I am sure that Yolanda Díaz will reach the elections"

The general secretary of Podemos and minister of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, Ione Belarra, hinted this Monday that she conceives her party and the Sumar platform of the second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, as different subjects although united and with the latter as candidate, by guaranteeing that "both Sumar and Podemos are preparing to have the best project" ahead of the 2023 general elections.

In an interview on TVE collected by Servimedia, Belarra refused to clarify whether Podemos intends to run in said elections under the formula of the electoral coalition with Sumar, despite the explicit questions that were asked about it.

Instead, he preferred to proclaim that in Podemos they are "happy" and that "it is good news that Yolanda Díaz has already started her project."

The minister also presented her party as "an absolutely strategic electoral ally" and claimed that "the stronger the space that we establish with Sumar in the next general elections, the faster the changes will come" that in her opinion Spanish society needs.

Belarra guaranteed that "the electoral alliance is going to happen yes or yes" and that Díaz "is our candidate", in fact the candidate that Podemos proposed when the party was led by Pablo Iglesias.

But he welcomed the fact that "people are not there for internal issues of political spaces" so as not to go into details about how the candidacy will be configured.

"I give absolute peace of mind, we are going to have the best electoral alliance," he insisted, before outlining that it will be signed as two different subjects: "Both Sumar and Podemos are preparing to have the best project. We aspire to be the majority force in the Government in addition to consolidating the progressive bloc".

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