• Politics Irene Montero warns Yolanda Díaz that Errejón was also "told that he was going to have a very good electoral result"
  • Moncloa government reduces Díaz to "the division of Vox" and trusts him to overcome Abascal

The launch of Yolanda Díaz as a candidate for the presidency of the Government and her platform Sumar is followed with attention and respect from La Moncloa. The reconfiguration of the political space to the left of the PSOE is an important move, because the Socialists know that the strength of the PSOE will determine the chances of trying to repeat a coalition, of competing with the right. And in that attentive look, Pedro Sánchez launches a message to Podemos by showing his desire that "all the pieces of the puzzle fit together". That is, that the purple formation be integrated into Díaz's project.

Sánchez had an act of the PSOE last Sunday in Catalonia, but in La Moncloa and the PSOE no detail of Díaz's coming-out was lost. The formation of the government that comes out of the general elections next December goes through at least one coalition, according to all the polls. And the struggle between left and right is played in two blocks of two: PSOE and Sumar and PP and Vox. Or, at least, that's Sanchez's purpose and desire.

The President of the Government, in an informal conversation with the journalists who accompany him on the European tour that has taken him to visit Cyprus, Malta and Italy, has shown respect for the internal process and the negotiations that Yolanda Díaz and Podemos can carry out, but he has left a clear message to the purples , by exposing that on Sunday it was seen how many pieces fit into the "puzzle" of Sumar and "my wish would be that all the pieces fit together".

Podemos and Sumar failed to reach a consensus on their positions and the purples were absent from Díaz's act. Yes, IU, the PCE, More Country, Compromís, the commons -the formation led by Ada Colau-, Equo, the Chunta Aragonesista, Project Drago ... among other actors. It is the puzzle that the President of the Government sees, the integration of the left in the same political space, but to which he would like to add one more piece: Podemos.

Sánchez's vision places the purples as one more token, which is not the approach defended by the PSOE coalition partners. Podemos wants a one-on-one negotiation with Díaz, a political position of preeminence and relevance because, they understand, his background and political trajectory demand it. They are not seen as another piece of the puzzle, but as one of the articulators of it.

Sánchez is betting on giving time and margin to Díaz and Sumar. Time. He does not go into assessing the statements of Pablo Iglesias in recent days and does not consider that the pulse maintained by Díaz and ministers Ione Belarra and Irene Montero can further convulse the months of coexistence that remain to the coalition. His analysis is that the Executive is going through a good moment as reflected in the unity expressed in the failed motion of censure of Vox or the approval of the pension reform.

Will Sumar the PSOE steal votes? The President of the Government limits himself to remembering that he is secretary general of the PSOE since 2015, and there he remains.

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