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In the PSOE not only downplay the importance of the flight of votes towards Yolanda Díaz detected by the Sigma Dos poll for EL MUNDO prepared after the launch of Sumar, they also categorically rule out that it may occur. "Our voter is not his", settle in Ferraz disdaining the fact that 12.6% of citizens who opted for their ballot in the 2019 general elections – more than 855,000 – now express their intention to support the second vice president in the elections that will be called at the end of this year.

Ferraz's argument is that what they have detected in recent weeks with the irruption of the new political brand located to their left is an "illusion" that translates into a "greater mobilization of abstention" and that "is positive for the progressive space", although they do not have internal polls that specifically measure the impact it can have on their own supporters. "On the contrary, on the contrary, on the contrary...", they add when asked if they should begin to consider the also Minister of Labor as a rival at the polls instead of as a complement.

The Sigma Dos poll published on Monday – which was prepared just after the official presentation of Sumar on April 2 – reflects a fall of two points in voting intention of the Socialists in just one month, which would mean a loss of six seats – from 97 to 91. Díaz, for his part, would achieve 35 representatives if he attended alone, compared to the eight of Podemos, while with a single candidacy both would reach 45, two more, although an insufficient figure in any case to reissue the current coalition government.

"What would be desirable to complete the whole puzzle, but this desire is framed within the maximum respect for the decisions of other parties," insisted Pilar Alegría, spokesperson for the PSOE, where they have not stopped making calls for the confluence of all that political space under the brand of the vice president because they are convinced that fragmentation harms them. "The attempt to unify those parties that are to our left has a very high component of motivation and mobilization. It's positive," he added.

In the headquarters of Ferraz they recognize that abstention is "a problem for the left", which in their case, according to the Sigma Dos poll – which they question because "it does not show the primary data" – stands at 8.2% of undecided compared to 6.6% among those who in 2019 supported Unidas Podemos, 4.4% of those of the PP and 4.2% of those of Vox. Even so, they argue that there are still eight months left for the general elections and that the first thing that will have to be analyzed are the results of the municipal and regional elections in which the "constellation of parties" grouped around Sumar will compete with each other in most of the squares.

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