• Yolanda Díaz fights Podemos: "If you ask for unity to clean cake you depress the electorate and then it does not matter if you shake hands"

In Moncloa and Ferraz the electoral mode is already fully activated. An eye on the municipal and regional elections on May 28. The goal is to try to minimize damage. Therefore, the war that Yolanda Díaz maintains with Pablo Iglesias and Podemos is tried to be seen from the sidelines. It is followed with "attention" and "respect", but avoiding that it splashes them. That is why from the socialist sector of the Executive Pedro Sánchez is defended from the accusations of macho launched by the second vice president, but avoids entering into confrontation with her. Yes, they have bothered and have not liked, but it does not go further. Its darts are framed in the struggle with Podemos and the need to establish its own profile in the face of the risk of being blurred by the purples and the socialists. Therefore, they believe he raises his voice now looking for his own.

"Of course it's macho, just like almost everyone is," Díaz said in an interview with La Sexta. He described Morocco as a "dictatorship", with the sensitivity of these positions in the relationship with the neighboring country. And she explained that if she had been president of the Government she would have dismissed Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska after the tragedy of the Melilla fence.

Díaz's challenges to Sánchez's policy and decisions are considered by the Socialists as "personal opinions" in his role as leader of Sumar. The ministers of the PSOE the position of the Government and the figure of the President of the Government, but frame the darts launched by the second vice president in that hard struggle that maintains with Podemos and in the need to claim its own space. It is a double-edged relationship that socialists go through with Díaz: they need it, hence they measure their criticism or the censorship of their words, but at the same time they cannot seem the same, hence they differ.

Because what matters in La Moncloa and Ferraz is that "that space to our left is linked to the generals. It's the most important thing." That is the real headache, and they know that will be decided depending on how the dispute now in force is resolved.

The strategy of La Moncloa was to launch Díaz in his dispute with Podemos, a scenery that reached its zenith in the failed motion of censure of Vox. The Socialists prefer that she be their ally against the right-wing bloc. And they want Podemos to be integrated into Sumar because, they assume, if there are more than two leftist parties it will be highly difficult to try to reedit the coalition.

They distance themselves from it, nuance and impose their position on state policies such as Morocco, but avoid going to the clash, knowing that they need their political project to do well. In fact, this Monday, regarding the accusation of macho to Sánchez, the socialist ministers showed their surprise and even came to ask him to explain "what are those macho actions", but in no case was articulated a request for rectification.

Moreover, Minister Grande-Marlaska, despite what Diaz said, wanted to remove iron from the matter yesterday from Melilla, assuring that he maintains "a very good relationship with the second vice president."

The socialist ministers closed ranks with Sánchez, showed their surprise and defended that they have not seen "any macho performance". Regarding Morocco, being a matter of state policy, they did want to be more blunt, show greater disavowal, trying to put out any fire before it asked to ignite: "It is a personal position. Of course it is not the position of this party or this Government, "was the unmarked in the words of Pilar Alegría, spokesperson for the PSOE and Minister of Education.

In any case, the purpose of the Socialists is not to encourage this controversy, not to give more ammunition, and to avoid getting even more involved in the Diaz-Iglesias struggle. "We are to other things," say the Socialists, alluding to the electoral pre-campaign and milestones such as the recent pact with ERC and Bildu for the approval of the Housing Law. They seek to show that the political battle corresponds to Sumar and Podemos, while they focus on announcements or measures such as the one that Sanchez starred in this Sunday, saying that he will put 50,000 Sareb homes for rent at "affordable prices". "Useful policy", settle the socialists.

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