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Yolanda Díaz will not tiptoe through the electoral campaign. After a long time of threats and calculated uncertainty, sources close to the second vice president confirm that she will assume a leading role and that she will celebrate approximately the same acts as Pedro Sánchez. There will be "many", these sources emphasize, it will be "on par" with those made by the leader of the PSOE.

This means that the candidate of Sumar will be involved in the regional and municipal elections of May 28 with a prominent number of public appearances and that she will be seen by many of the corners of Spain making rallies. Far from the forecasts months ago to reduce its influence to Barcelona.

Although this confirmation, a priori, might sound good to Podemos, which has been pressuring Díaz for some time to demonstrate his leadership in the space by taking on the challenge of campaigning, it would not fulfill purple expectations. And, what the leadership of Ione Belarra would like is for the vice president to turn to support the candidates of Unidas Podemos in acts with them and in a more explicit way than a photo.

But the circumstances surrounding Diaz's campaign are still unclear. She still does not inform Podemos of what she plans to do and is suspicious of where, how and with whom she will act. The sources consulted do confirm that the leader of Sumar will be in the Community of Madrid and the Valencian Community. That is, he will not shy away from the two politically hottest places in the May elections. What is unknown is how it will reconcile the crossed interests that arise in both autonomies, where Más Madrid and Compromís compete against candidacies led by Podemos. Or what is the same. Two of the parties that have most supported Sumar and have aligned themselves with Díaz face lists led by a party that, for the moment, is not only not in tune with Sumar, but has raised a public pulse on the control of the future candidacy to the generals. To make this puzzle more difficult, in the candidacies of Podemos is IU, which is one of the vital supports of Sumar. With the commons.

Who will you campaign for? For the two candidates? Diaz will be in Madrid for San Isidro, where he could act as on May 1 in the demonstrations. Photos with Mónica García (Más Madrid) and photos with Alejandra Jacinto (Unidas Podemos). This dichotomy in no way satisfies Podemos, which demands its own.

The Podemos calendar

While Díaz fits his own calendar of events, in Podemos they close theirs without having the vice president to try to raise the results in the places where they have the most problems. Thus, the purple leadership carries its road map and in it the general secretary, Ione Belarra, and her number two, Irene Montero, will throw the elections behind their backs. The first will participate in more than 15 acts and the second will do about 12.

Purple sources emphasize that, under the slogan Courage to Transform, Belarra, Montero and the rest of the leaders will tour "all" the autonomous communities and will put "a special effort" in the places where they seek to revalidate the regional coalition governments (Valencian Community, Aragon, Balearic Islands or Canary Islands).

The leaders of Podemos will make numerous acts together with the direction of IU, since both share 10 regional candidacies (all except Aragon and Asturias) and a multitude of municipal candidacies, as in the vast majority of provincial capitals. The joint events planned with leaders of both formations are already around ten.

The Unidas Podemos campaign will start on Friday 12 in Valencia and will close on 26 in Madrid.

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