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The increase in the "pressures" of Podemos to screw Yolanda Díaz to a chair until an agreement is reached that recognizes the "weight" of the purple party in the future candidacy of the general elections arouses not only misgivings among the political forces closest to the vice president. It is that, in fact, they reject such a scenario outright, according to the different sources consulted in several of those parties.

Díaz's partners refuse to open a "bilateral" negotiation with Podemos now and leave it to the other forces until after the main thing has been tied. In this sense, they advocate opening a table of parties in which the organizations that wish to converge in the same candidacy sit.

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For this reason, and despite the insistence of Podemos to force a bilateral agreement now, Díaz has the support and request of other allies inside and outside the space of Unidas Podemos who claim to postpone any type of formal negotiation to the month of June, once the elections have passed. Because now, they stress, what we have to do is "focus" on achieving the best results in the municipalities and autonomous communities.

Thus, several of the political forces most in tune with Yolanda Díaz believe that "it is not the time" to talk about electoral lists or primaries. When it is time, which will be after overcoming the May challenge, one of these sources remarks, "we will all want to talk." That is why there is no concern with that horizon, nor do they want to open that melon now that it would cause a distraction from what they call more important, which is to face the May elections.

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The one who has been most clearly expressing his positions in public is IU. It has approved a resolution since January in which it proposes the "implementation of a table of political organizations with representation of all organizations that want to participate in the process of Sumar in particular and the construction of the country project in general."

It is at that table where everyone would talk about everything, that is, electoral lists, the possible holding of primaries, the governing bodies of the coalition, the distribution of economic resources or the advisors of the parties. The usual thing in this type of agreement, where there are many interests at stake.

Podemos does not give its arm to twist at the moment and pressures every time it has the opportunity to summon Díaz to a negotiation as it provides "certainties" about the role that the party will play in the future alliance, and that demands that it be preponderant. "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," Irene Montero said yesterday, presenting Más Madrid and the PCE as part of Sumar and not as differentiated political subjects.

The last trick that the purples use to promote this pact is their presence on April 2 at the event that Díaz is organizing in Madrid to announce his candidacy. We can decline to go if you don't have an agreement first. The days pass and the purples are almost the only ones of the alternative space to the PSOE that have not announced their attendance. It was confirmed yesterday by the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, and Compromís; and before that, the figures of Más Madrid, Mónica García and Rita Maestre, and IU, which "will turn" with Alberto Garzón and Enrique Santiago. There will be the Chunta, Equo or Alianza Verde.

If anything, tensions are now focused on the primaries. As Podemos suspects that it could be relegated, without the weight it demands, it challenges Díaz to call "open primaries", aware that it is the force with the most militants and that it has the ability to give guidelines to vote and increase its candidates to the detriment of others.

Diaz said yesterday that the lists of Sumar "will be decided democratically by the citizens," that this was not an "obstacle," but the commons admit that a workhorse is the census. It would have to be configured again. They cannot be put together for data protection.

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