• Politics Yolanda Díaz avoids Montero and Belarra and displaces her partners: "Playing two sides does not benefit anyone"

The launch of Sumar and the refusal of Compromís to replicate an electoral alliance with Unidas Podemos in the regional and municipal elections in May has strained relations between the Valencian nationalist coalition and the purple space. To the point that the Minister of Equality and leader of Unidas Podemos, Irene Montero, has campaigned this Tuesday in Valencia for the purple candidates to the Generalitat and the City Council of Valencia, Héctor Illueca and Pilar Lima. But, above all, he has campaigned against Compromís, for whose electorate Unidas Podemos competes to survive.

If in the middle of the pulse of Yolanda Díaz with Unidas Podemos for Sumar Illueca accused Compromís of blocking an agreement before 28-M, Montero has charged directly against Joan Baldoví for having vetoed the PSOE-Unidas Podemos coalition government. The minister reminded the leader of Compromís that he signed in 2019 – the year that the general elections had to be repeated – two manifestos: one in favor of an executive formed by Socialists and Citizens and another by a PSOE government alone. It was then that Pedro Sánchez said that he could not sleep peacefully with Podemos in the Government.

"If it had been for PSOE and Compromís there would have been no coalition government in this country," lamented Montero, who thus delves into the path of criticism of the nationalists that Illueca himself opened weeks ago. Moreover, the minister downgraded Compromís to a "center" party to equate it with the PSOE, consequently leaving the purple space as the only reference of the left.

"In your territory very right-wing parties and some of the center are going to be presented, but only a political force with the capacity to transform things, willing to assume the political cost of raising the advances in rights that we had been told were impossible," stressed Montero, who referred to the Trans Law to exemplify what happens "if Unidas Podemos does not have strength." And what happens is that, in his words, "not even the centrist parties wanted to go out and put their bodies to defend women and trans people."

It should not be forgotten that, for these elections, Compromís itself launched to invite Yolanda Díaz to its campaign events, when the minister had not even specified whether she would campaign for Unidas Podemos. Finally it will be so, but Díaz will be seen for example with the mayor Joan Ribó -also next to Lima- in an act against the expansion of the Port of Valencia. The attempt of Compromís to have Díaz to campaign in places where he competes directly for the vote with Unidas Podemos has ended up rarefiing relations between the current partners of the Valencian Government.

And when the purples play their representation in the Valencian Parliament -the polls place them touching the dreaded electoral barrier of 5%-, Illueca wanted to counteract the siren songs that appeal to the useful vote: "What you suffer is a conscious operation of some means to build an artificial reality and condition your electoral behavior", he told those attending the rally in Valencia. "The message is always the same: voting for Unidas Podemos does not make sense," warned Illueca who, however, has said he is prepared to manage areas such as health in a hypothetical third Botànic.

For her part, the candidate for Mayor of Valencia, Pilar Lima, is no longer playing to stay in the City Council, but to return to it. To do this, he has insisted on the strategy of questioning the policies of socialists and nationalists. Presented by Montero as the next "bollera and deaf" mayor, Lima has criticized for example that "nothing has been done in housing policy in these years in Valencia". "We have been missed in the City Council," he exclaimed.

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