Belarra is committed to "unity" with Díaz but demands that the militancy choose the candidate

One year after the general elections, the space to the left of the PSOE still has not found the formula for its reconversion.

Ione Belarra, general secretary of Podemos and minister of Social Rights, assured this Saturday that the purples are committed to "unity" over even the name that champions the electoral ballot, but demanded that Yolanda Díaz submit to the scrutiny of the militancy if wants to aspire to be the candidate at the polls.

The differences between

, the platform coordinated by the second vice president and Minister of Labor, and Podemos had increased considerably in recent months.

Díaz's times, the few details that are known about his project and the lack of prominence that the purple brand has in his plans greatly distanced Podemos from Díaz, in charge of uniting again the left of the PSOE after leaving politics of Pablo Iglesias, who has also questioned the leadership of the head of Labor for a long time.

Faced with uncertainty and time, which is already playing against the parties that make up the conglomerate, Ione Belarra emphasized this Saturday that Podemos is willing to put aside its struggle for leadership of the space: "For us it is not a priority that it have card of Podemos", he said in the last

of the formation of this year.

Of course, he claimed the role that the bases not only of Podemos, but of all the parties, have in the election of their representatives.

"The militants, the registered and all those people who want to join the space for change must not only be heard. They must also be able to exercise sovereign power, which is to choose those who represent them in the institutions. Popular leadership must be the key that legitimizes its representatives and ensures that we do not take the wrong course", he launched during his speech.

As this newspaper reported last April, the intention of Díaz, who had not yet taken the step of launching his listening plan, was to submit his leadership, when the time came, to the militancy of the parties that made up his alliance. .

Since then, little or nothing else has been known about it and, for the moment, the second vice president has not confirmed that she will be the space candidate, although in the purple universe it is taken for granted.

Now, Belarra redoubles the pressure on her partner in the Council of Ministers and recalls that "the unity of the left is buried in the offices", so "it must be built from below".

That is to say, that the bases will have to decide who is the best representative facing the passage through the polls within a year.

In any case, Díaz has already warned that his project is general and, therefore, he does not plan to present a brand for the spring regional and local elections, an intermediate step before the general elections at the end of 2023.

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