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  • 28-M Podemos shoots against the media as a final cartridge to resist the 28-M

Podemos closes its most difficult electoral campaign. Now he can only close his eyes, take a breath and trust that his fierce strategy to mobilize irreducible and more ideological voters has worked. Well, the result that comes out this 28-M will depend to a large extent on its new role in the reconfiguration of the space of the alternative left to the PSOE. In other words, in June negotiations are resumed to assemble the confluence of the general elections under the leadership of Yolanda Díaz and one of the great debates that has strained the forces called to unite in Sumar is how much weight the purple formation has to have. This reading will also be done with the election results in hand. And these do not look exactly good, with Podemos fighting to survive in places as politically relevant as the Community of Madrid or the Valencian Community.

Is there a change of cycle in the alternative left? In leadership there is. Now Pablo Iglesias is no longer the icon, but Yolanda Díaz. But one thing is that relay and another that Podemos is willing to peacefully hand over the preponderance in space and simply accept to play a secondary role. It certainly isn't. And it is what explains all the war unleashed in the last year and that was expressed in a crude and categorical way with the absence of the national leadership of Podemos in the announcement of Díaz's candidacy in that multiparty act in Magariños.

This internal axis of power struggle has traversed the campaign from top to bottom. Contextualize the messages. It clarifies the movements of each other. Visualize the configuration of the new poles of influence. Translate gestures and words. He explains that Ione Belarra and Irene Montero have not shared a single moment with Díaz throughout the campaign. Or that Alberto Garzón (IU) has done the minimum with them despite achieving a record of alliances between the two forces. He points out the reason for the verbal escalation with which Pablo Iglesias has burst in. Or, to conclude, it serves to interpret why the leader of Sumar has made her own tour and why it was based on the premise of making balances to satisfy the forces she aspires to gather in Sumar. Like Más Madrid or Compromís, for whom it has been wet in these weeks more than expected, causing a deep discomfort in the candidacies of Podemos that have been disrupted by these signs of support. She was effusive with Mónica García and Rita Maestre in Madrid and explicit in pointing to Joan Ribó as her bet in the city of Valencia.

In contrast, Díaz has compensated the purples with the support of four regional candidates of Unidas Podemos. Three where there was no competition in the political space (Balearic Islands, Extremadura and Navarre) and only in one place where it did occur (Valencian Community) but in which the progressive government depends on the survival dwelling in the Cortes. He has also tried to boost many municipal candidacies that, broadly speaking, attracted unity.

It has been a difficult campaign for Podemos because for the first time it has had to compete in attention with the prominence that the vice president concentrated. And it has been especially difficult because of the slab that has meant it appears as a force besieged by the new that emerges and by low expectations for 28-M.

This has greatly hardened the content and style of the Podemos campaign, in which the most ideologized and most irreducibly left-wing voter has been sought. "Courage to transform", has been the motto. An idea that has been squeezed to defend a way of disputing politics "without smiles" or "hugs", with "noise" and using "conflict" to get things. An idea that has been opposed to the "cowardice" of others and those who want to "resemble" the PSOE. Yes, messages addressed to Diaz and his allies. "Whoever says 'don't make noise' underpins the boss's speech," Iglesias openly rebuked him.

Listening to the rallies of Díaz and Podemos was like going to see two different parties. Especially when Belarra, Montero and Iglesias bet everything on the most aggressive discourse, displacing other issues to place at the center their attacks against the "mafia" and the "corruption" of politicians, businessmen and journalists. It was when the canvases and T-shirts against Isabel Díaz Ayuso's brother or the poster against Florentino Pérez appeared. The two people most cited by the leaders and candidates of Podemos in this last week.

The purple formation defends this 28-M its presence in six regional governments: Valencian Community, Aragon, Balearic Islands, Navarra, Canary Islands and La Rioja. The leaders hope to retain the majority and aspire to be decisive in Extremadura. However, the polls will measure their capacity for resistance, beyond the fact that it can serve to add to those pacts.

And that resilience is compromised in Madrid. Not entering the Assembly would be a real disaster. In the capital it was starting from a worse position. For both places he needs 5% of the votes and all the resources of the party have been poured to achieve it. "Madrid already has a conservative left [PSOE] and a cuqui left [More Madrid]. What good has all that left done? You're welcome, we need a brave left that is not afraid of Florentino Pérez," Belarra claimed yesterday.

Pablo Iglesias resorts to the Vinicius case to win over the Valencia CF voter

NOA DE LA TORRE / Valencia

Although a day before Yolanda Díaz disarmed the strategy of Unidas Podemos in Valencia supporting Joan Ribó, of Compromís, Pablo Iglesias ignored the rudeness of the leader of Sumar at the closing of the campaign in the Valencian capital. However, he did not avoid criticism of the candidate of Compromís to the Generalitat, Joan Baldoví, whom he accused of giving the scare and not going out to defend the Valencianistas against the generalized criticism of racism.

In fact, Iglesias used the case of Vinicius to appeal directly to the Valencian voter, arguing that Unidas Podemos has been the only force that "has dared to point to the Madrid mafia that controls everything", in reference to Florentino Pérez and Antonio García Ferreras. The truth is that all the parties in Valencia have come out to criticize a "smear campaign" orchestrated from Madrid.

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  • Yolanda Diaz
  • United We Can
  • Pablo Iglesias
  • Compromís
  • Joan Ribó
  • Aragon
  • Community of Madrid
  • Irene Montero
  • Canary Islands
  • Alberto Garzon
  • IU

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