• 23-J Podemos warns against vetoes to Irene Montero and other leaders: "Exclusions torpedo unity"
  • Moncloa Policy sentences its partners: "They have lost, we must do without them"
  • Sumar Yolanda Díaz signs Pablo Bustinduy, errejonista reference of the first Podemos, for the campaign team of Sumar

The negotiations to build a candidacy of confluence in the alternative left to the PSOE enter a decisive phase. The deadline (Friday at 23.59 hours) looms on the horizon and none of those involved wants to hurry, chastened by what happened with the grotesque outcome of the candidacy of the elections of Andalusia. The problem is that this new process to achieve "unity" under the Sumar brand is advancing late, according to the sources consulted, that is, at this point in the talks there are still essential issues open, such as the configuration of the lists.

Among other things, because the inclusion of Irene Montero and Pablo Echenique in starting positions in the candidacy arouses strong opposition in a large part of the parties involved in the multilateral negotiating table. They argue that they are figures that right now subtract more than add and that, also, condition the attempt to present a renewed and attractive political project. Díaz has made a flag of a style that abandons the "noise", but both are marked by it.

Pablo Iglesias accused on Monday Más Madrid, comunes and Compromís of vetoing the entry of Podemos in the lists. "There are three territories, where there are three political forces that are openly saying 'with Podemos, no': Madrid, Valencia and Catalonia. There are three parties of Madrid, Valencian and Catalan territorial scope (for Más Madrid, Compromís and Catalunya en Comú), which say 'here we alone'. As long as that is so, as long as there are those who say for myself I can and do not need anyone else it is very complicated, "said the former secretary general of Podemos in an intervention in Hora 25, of the Ser.

He explained that the veto is total because these political forces "are saying that they are going alone" in their respective constituencies, without there being leaders or members of Podemos. I think that in the other territories the agreements can move forward, but there are problems with those three organizations," he said.

Iglesias criticized that this attitude of Más Madrid, comunes and Compromís "is not realistic and loses sight of the moment of exceptionality." "No one should assume that position of absolute self-sufficiency," he charged. The former secretary general denounced that it is not possible to propose vetoes to anyone and warned that "every time vetoes are put on the table things do not come out."

Regarding this issue, Podemos shows that it is far from the task of yielding in this matter, which is a non-negotiable issue, and plays its cards to shield its candidates. "Exclusions torpedo unity," warned one of the spokeswomen of the national leadership, Isa Serra. A few hours earlier, Iglesias already warned against this "dynamic" of "revenge" and "pressure" so that Montero is "left out" of the lists to Congress. "I want teammates to know that leading has more to do with being generous than trying to humiliate or get someone under table football," he said on RAC1.

The partners of Sumar squeeze and Yolanda Díaz lets the matter run. On Friday, questioned about it, she transferred to the Minister of Equality the "question" of whether or not she should go on the electoral lists. A debate that was fueled in terms of pressure by the announcement of Alberto Garzón (IU) to renounce to present himself to the 23-J to "promote a renewal of faces".

Meanwhile, the intellectual space closest to Sumar takes sides emphatically. The philosopher Santiago Alba Rico wrote yesterday a harsh article in Público about the damage of incorporating Podemos whose presence in the coalition -he sentenced- contributes to "losing". Among other reasons because its leaders had become "toxic".

Against the eccentricities of Podemos

The number of open issues does not invite us to think about an imminent pact, no matter how much the different parties intend to self-impose Wednesday as the date to have an agreement. Because it then has to go through the different management bodies. There are even forces that should submit it to consultation among their militants, although the rush of the calendar throws many more doubts than certainties about that this can happen before the coalition is registered.

It is known that among the issues that are negotiated are the electoral lists, the distribution of the money that the coalition will receive throughout the legislature, the number of advisers for each party, the governance of the coalition, the positions of spokespersons ... In short, the distribution of power of what will be Sumar. However, another issue has also surfaced that could go more unnoticed but that has its substance. There are allies of Sumar who squeeze to get the hands of Podemos out of the electoral campaign and thus prevent them from breaking the discursive line that Díaz builds with eccentricities, harsh tones or attacks that have nothing to do with the lines of the project such as those led by Podemos against journalists and the media.

These are well-founded fears. IU knows it well, that in this campaign of the regional and municipal elections it came across t-shirts and tarpaulins against the brother of Isabel Díaz Ayuso or with a poster against Florentino Pérez. All these actions were executed unilaterally by Podemos and changed the axis of the campaign in the last week.

One of the parties that has exposed that it does not sound different is the Communist Party (PCE), which among its conditions is that there is "a unitary campaign in terms of discourse and image." In other words, that everyone does not go their own way. Many of the forces negotiating feel very uncomfortable with that style of Podemos, which is more aimed at a niche than having a transversal vocation. The first to show this is Diaz herself. His campaign on 28-M seemed that of another party by content and tone. And Podemos returned it by reproaching that it did not want a "comfortable" left. "We don't want to look like the PSOE," Iglesias warned.

Sumar announced yesterday the signing of Pablo Bustinduy, one of the main errejonistas references in the direction of Podemos when he was in the party, for the campaign team. His recovery for the front line shows where Díaz is going and what is the conception he has of the coming weeks: positive messages, with a lot of substance and form but from a more friendly and moderate style. Sumar incorporates intellectual muscle that fled Iglesias.

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