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  • 28-M Yolanda Díaz faces the left in Valencia: asks for the vote for Compromís in front of the Podemos candidate

Yolanda Díaz ends today in Barcelona a truly particular campaign. And it has been so because the leader of Sumar has lived the last 16 days balancing to satisfy the main political forces that she aspires to gather under the umbrella of Sumar in her candidacy for the general elections. Despite this eagerness to share, the gestures of support for Más Madrid in the Community and the City Council and for Compromís in the city of Valencia have disarmed Podemos there where, precisely, it is suffering the most because it has a tough competition. Although, in contrast, the vice president was strongly involved in coming to the rescue of the purple candidacy for the Valencian Community.

This campaign between two waters has sat especially badly in Valencia, where the municipal candidate of Unidas Podemos, Pilar Lima, left visibly upset when Díaz asked in front of her for the vote for Joan Ribó, of Compromís, to be re-elected mayor of Valencia. This leaves him in a critical situation two days before the vote, because that call for a useful vote derails the whole message he has tried to construct.

For Compromís, that Díaz decided to stop juggling to turn without complexes with Ribó is not a mere nod to who was a friend of his father in CCOO. In the mayor's environment it is clear that the balance can opt for a handful of votes, and points to what already happened in reality in 2019. Ribó remained as mayor because the sum of Compromís and PSOE exceeded the right-wing bloc by 355 votes.

Therefore, the reading that is made now is that, faced with the prospect of another adjusted result and with Podemos out of the City Council according to all the polls, "the only option is to concentrate the vote so as not to lose any." At least, if the left aspires to resist at the head of the Valencian capital for a third term.

He asked yesterday for the vote for Ribó in front of the candidate of Unidas Podemos

Díaz asks to vote for Compromís in Valencia but a day before he called to do it for Unidas Podemos in the regional elections. Where, yes, he urged to "concentrate the vote" in Héctor Illueca to, with that, get the Botanical Pact to continue for another four years. It was a boost in a strategic place for Podemos. A gesture that he has not made in the other place underlined in red: the Community of Madrid.

There Díaz, without asking in any case for the vote for a certain political force, played to distribute affections and take photographs with the candidates but the leader of Sumar showed a harmony and a predilection for More Madrid that irritated the purple. Well, they also row against the current in the region and in the capital to poke their heads and get a representation that is still at risk. Especially in the city.

It was in the festivities of San Isidro where the balance of the balance was decisively overcome for the side of Mónica García and Rita Maestre, who received with gestures although without words a very explicit support. That also came from the echoes of an interview in La Sexta where he insinuated that his vote would be for Más Madrid. An interpretation that they also made within Podemos. With the consequent anger with her.

Iglesias attacks Más Madrid and Carmena for their "cowardice"

Faced with the exercise of tightrope walking in these and other places, Díaz comes down from the cable and steps on solid ground in Catalonia, where the support for Ada Colau is being so committed and resounding that it seems that she herself is part of the candidacy in Barcelona. The icon of this involvement is the photo that was taken last Saturday in which the leader of Sumar embraces the mayor from behind and with great affection. Although it could well be another too, that of the two posing with a Diaz sheathed in the t-shirt-motto of the commons of "the fault of everything is Colau", which replaces the name crossing out Yoko Ono.

Colau's results will also be read as Díaz's own, although Sumar sources avoid making that interpretation, arguing that her involvement is such because of the project she embodies and because of her figure, but not because she has turned it into Sumar's first electoral experiment.

With his act of presence today in Barcelona, where he will attend the closing of the campaign to give the last push to the mayor, there will be three appearances together these weeks. Plus a fourth time he went with the commons to another rally. In the previous months Diaz went on two other occasions.

This end of the tour, risky because Colau has re-election in the air, contrasts with the needs that Podemos gives off. The purple party makes use of Iglesias, who yesterday in Madrid and today in Valencia comes to the rescue. At yesterday's rally he took out the artillery against Más Madrid, with attacks on that "comfortable left" for power, and against Manuela Carmena, whom he presented submissive. "Cowardice is guaranteed defeat," he said, to contrast with a brave Podemos that claimed "essential" for changes to occur.

  • Can
  • Add
  • Compromís
  • More Country
  • Valence
  • More Madrid
  • Barcelona
  • United We Can
  • Manuela Carmena
  • Rita Maestre
  • The Sixth
  • Ada Colau
  • Community of Madrid
  • PSOE
  • CCOO
  • Joan Ribó

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