• What from Évole Yolanda Díaz, to Podemos: "If you ask for unity to clean cake you depress the electorate and then it does not matter if you shake hands"
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It was one of the great surprises of Yolanda Díaz's interview last Sunday in La Sexta. The leader of Sumar hinted that she will vote for Mónica García, of Más Madrid, in the regional elections and not for Unidas Podemos. This has been interpreted by different sectors of the political space, not only Podemos, of course. Just 36 hours later, some of the vice president's allies have distanced themselves from her and have come out in defense of Alejandra Jacinto, who is the candidate of Unidas Podemos for the Madrid elections.

One of those partners is Izquierda Unida, which is one of the organizations that are involved within that Madrid candidacy. The federal coordinator of IU, Alberto Garzón, has announced that she will have his "vote". It would not be news for the head of a political formation to announce that if it were not for the fact that he also understands that the idea that Díaz will support a candidacy against which they face has penetrated.

Thus, Garzón has used Twitter to praise the political figure of Jacinto. "His record as an activist and as a public representative is impeccable. In addition, no less important, he does that excellent job taking care of alliances and respecting everyone, "said the leader of IU who, in addition, stressed that he is doing a "great" campaign.

Similarly, from the space of En Comú Podem has wanted to send explicit support to Jacinto by pointing her as his candidate for the Madrid elections. The leader of the commons in Congress, Jaume Asens, has assured that he will "support" the candidacy of Unidas Podemos. "I do have clear in Madrid who I am going to support," he said.

Neither IU nor commons reprimand Diaz directly for his words. For example, Asens has done balancing to avoid making an explicit reproach. "I wasn't surprised, it didn't stop surprising me," he said, "he didn't say what exactly he would do."

The ballot is complicated for Díaz because there are formations that are aligning with Sumar that compete against lists headed by Podemos, which for now maintains distances and strong discrepancies with them. It happens with special incidence in Madrid, but also in the Valencian Community (Compromís) or Drago Verdes Canarias (in the islands). These three organizations were sheltering Díaz in Magariños. Just as, by the way, so were Garzón and Asens with very powerful delegations of IU and the commons.

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