The impulse of the electoral ticket of Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz in the motion of censure has met with the first internal disturbances. In less than 24 hours, Podemos has watered down the unity and harmony exhibited yesterday by the president and the second vice president, whipping up the differences and points of friction that, for a few days, seemed to be left behind.

The Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, has warned the PSOE that one thing is speeches and another actions and has urged him that what "touches" now is "to move from words to deeds" and demonstrate that the progressive Government and the majority of the investiture are "strong".

To do so, the leader of Podemos has set homework. He has demanded the PSOE "let go of the hand of the PP" in the reform of the law of only yes is yes, resurrecting for public debate the issue that has generated more tension within the Executive and that put against the ropes the continuity of the coalition by the belligerence of Podemos against the partner, which angered, And a lot, to the socialist ministers after being branded as "fascists" and "traitors to feminism" by the purples.

In addition, the Minister of Equality has pressured the PSOE to unlock "once" the Housing Law, pending in Congress, and the Family Law, still pending endorsement by the Council of Ministers.

In statements in the halls of Congress, Montero has stressed that the right "says that we must break the feminist, progressive and plurinational majority of investiture" and what the Executive has to respond is to "reinforce" that "to face the coming years". And that, he pointed out, is done with the law of only yes is yes and the laws of Housing and Families.

Montero marks distances with Díaz

On the other hand, Montero has shown the coldness with which Podemos fit yesterday the speech of Yolanda Díaz and the staging she did, and that was interpreted as the launch of her candidacy with Sumar. Faced with the catalogue of praise displayed by IU, the commons and external forces such as Más Madrid, Podemos avoided flattery yesterday. And this Wednesday neither has Montero, who has chosen to say that "both the vice president and the president defended well the task" that the Government is doing.

And, in the background is the pulse that Podemos and Díaz maintain for how their electoral confluence for the general elections is shaped. It has been pointed out by Montero, who has pointed out that the purple party demands a prior and bilateral pact before attending the act of presentation of the candidacy of Díaz, which will take place on April 2 in Madrid.

"The party that Yolanda is setting up with the Communist Party and Más Madrid is different from Podemos but we want to go together to the elections and for that what we need is an agreement and primaries that allow us to converge together and go to those elections to continue governing with more and more strength, "he said, presenting Más Madrid and the PCE as part of Sumar and not as differentiated political subjects.

Colau will wrap Diaz on 2-A

In the act of Díaz on April 2, the presence of prominent figures of Podemos is not expected if there is not a pact before. If there is no certainty of having a preponderant role. On the other hand, confirmations in other parties begin to come out, such as En Comú Podem. The mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, has announced that she will be that day wrapping Diaz.

"From Barcelona we will strongly join a project that claims diversity and joy in the face of hate speech. That defends putting people at the center and conquering together a horizon of hope where no one is left behind and where no person feels alone in the face of difficulties. Those who do not want anything to change, want us alone, depressed and confronted. For they will find us together, joyful and determined to conquer a better future. With you Yolanda Díaz, always forward," wrote the leader of the commons.

Similarly, yesterday the leader of Más Madrid, Mónica García, and the candidate of this party for mayor of Madrid, Rita Maestre, said the same. For its part, Izquierda Unida has not yet revealed the names but, consulted by this newspaper, points out that "it will overturn." So one would expect the presence of its top leaders. The Chunta Aragonesista and Alianza Verde will also go.

"They handpicked me and it has weighed me"

"I want Podemos to be in that act, there is no reason why it cannot be, it is an important force in this country," Díaz responded today when asked in an interview on RNE collected by Europa Press. "The general secretary of Podemos has to explain what decision she makes," he said.

Díaz has regretted having been elected vice president "by hand" by Pablo Iglesias and has defended that "never" has fought for an electoral list. She has indicated that she is proud to be vice president of the Government, although she has said that this election by her predecessor in office and former leader of Podemos has cost her. "I have been handpicked by hand, I accepted it and it has weighed me," said Díaz, who has considered that, despite this, that is not his way of acting.

On the celebration of primaries that Podemos demands in order to reach a coalition agreement with Sumar, he has defended that political leaders should be chosen by citizens. "Have no doubt that the candidacies of Sumar will be decided democratically by the citizens," he has moved, before rejecting that this point, that of the primaries, is the "obstacle" that slows down the agreement with Podemos.

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