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The big week of Yolanda Díaz, which will culminate with the announcement of her candidacy next Sunday at an act of Sumar in Madrid, begins as the previous one ended, with a tense atmosphere and confrontation with Podemos for the demand of the purple party to seek a written commitment that there will be "open primaries" to make the lists of the general elections.

Podemos sent this weekend a last offer to Díaz's team to sign an agreement in which the vice president assumed that condition in the construction of her candidacy. However, there was no pact with Sumar, so the talks are stalled and have not unblocked the presence of the purples in the act on Sunday.

That tension has jumped to the press conference of the Podemos leadership, which has again become a loudspeaker to pressure Díaz with that demand. "At the moment in which it is accepted we will reach an agreement," said the national co-spokesman, Pablo Fernández, who has warned that most citizens want both to close an "open primary", in which "anyone" can participate to choose the candidates with "total transparency and guarantees".

The festering situation makes it almost impossible for front-line leaders of Podemos to be present on Sunday at the Magariños sports center (Madrid). Well, the purples will not attend if there is not that pact before and because from Sumar they do not seem willing to reach a bilateral agreement that commits the other actors without counting on them at the table.

In any case, Podemos avoids discarding its presence 100% by pointing out that they trust that throughout this week progress can be made on something. The talks are not broken, but they are certainly not thriving in the direction that Podemos wants.

Fernández has drawn attention to the fact that the primaries are something that "in theory" is what Sumar and Díaz herself "also" defend. "The approach is shared," they excuse. And, they add, it is a "sensible", "reasonable" objective and that "it should be consubstantial to any transformative political space".

Podemos defends that the party reaches agreements with Díaz, diluting the possibility of a table of parties as demanded by IU and other forces of the space, in the same way that, they emphasize, the vice president "will reach agreements with other formations."

Right now Sunday's photo is that of the loneliness of Podemos. There will be Alberto Garzón (IU), Ada Colau (commons), Mónica García (Más Madrid) and also Íñigo Errejón (Más País), who confirmed on Monday that he will attend the event.

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