Podemos is turning against its refusal to attend the presentation of Yolanda Díaz's candidacy for the general elections. Well, every day there are more members of the purple party who defy the internal order not to go giving their support to Sumar or announcing that they will attend the Magariños sports center (Madrid).

For the first time one of the candidates of Podemos to the regional elections of May stands out from Ione Belarra and Irene Montero to align herself clearly with Díaz. This is Cova Tomé, the headliner in Asturias, who although he will not be able to travel personally to Madrid because he has a crisis that "ties" him those days, he did want to express his "affection" to the vice president and "wish her all the luck" at the beginning of this new stage.

"Podemos is not just a party structure, it is a desire to transform reality. We can and we will add," she said in a message on Twitter with a message to the national leadership, with which she is confronted from the moment she was the only non-official candidate who won the primaries.

In fact, that is why they have been making the void since then while promoting the rest of the regional candidates. They neither invite her to the events nor give her coverage. On the contrary, they have expelled from the party people very close to her, such as Daniel Ripa, who was the last critical baron of Podemos, and who was one of the promoters of the candidacy that won the current Asturian leadership.

With Tomé the list of people from Podemos who support Sumar or who will attend Sunday's event is expanding. There are at least two regional leaders of Podemos who challenge their party and will be in Madrid: Borja San Ramón, coordinator of Galicia, and Begoña Alfaro, coordinator in Navarra. In addition, the leadership of Extremadura will also send a representative, although it will not be its leader and candidate, Irene de Miguel.

The support of Juan Pedro Yllanes, who is vice president of the Balearic Islands and who has been the party's reference these four years in the islands, has also been sounded. As he announced some time ago that he is leaving the political front line, he will not repeat as a candidate in May. It will be Antonia Jover.

There are at least two former regional secretaries general who will also attend. Antón Gómez-Reino, who was leader and candidate in Galicia and who is now a national deputy, and Nacho Escartín, who was spokesman in the Cortes de Aragón until last July and who continues as an Aragonese deputy.

From Sumar they believe that there will be more territorial leaders of Podemos who will attend the event or who will express their support when the time approaches. For now, Díaz has said that she is "convinced" that "there will be many people from Podemos."

"I would love to be able to count on the general secretary of Podemos [Belarra], like many other leaders will accompany me on the 2nd and who will accompany Sumar," he said in statements in Congress. "Day 2 everything starts. I believe that in the moments that the history of a country can change, it must be. I would do it like that," he remarked.

On Podemos, he said that "there is no excuse for it not to be" and stressed that Sumar is a "new project" that is a "citizen movement in which everyone fits". "No matter the origins," he remarked, and then made an "appeal" to citizens and political forces that "wish."

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