Alvaro Carvajal Madrid

Madrid

Updated Monday, February 19, 2024-12:56

  • 18-F Election results in Galicia

  • Politics Total failure of Yolanda Díaz in the first Sumar exam and Podemos sinks behind Pacma

Podemos's electoral failure in Galicia does not arouse self-criticism from the party's national leadership nor does it change its plans. On the day after obtaining 0.26% of the votes and placing itself between the candidates of

Pacma

and

Caños en Blanco

, the

purple

formation turns its back on the understanding with Sumar and reaffirms itself in its solo adventure with its sights set on that the European elections in June, with Irene Montero as candidate, can breathe some optimism into an organization that has been chaining bad electoral results for years and disappearing from regional parliaments and city councils.

The disaster in Galicia was taken for granted in Podemos, although not so harshly. The party has barely achieved 1,200 more votes than the number of militants who spoke out in the internal consultation in which the pre-agreement to go into coalition with Sumar was overthrown. A decision that was fueled from Madrid and that Pablo Iglesias assumed in person. The result is 3,854 votes in the Galician elections, 0.26% of the total. Pacma got 5,373 votes, 0.36%, and Blank Seats had 2,744, 0.18%.

At a press conference, the new Secretary of Organization,

Pablo Fernández

, acknowledged that Podemos's results are "eloquent" but he has barely explained the political causes of the drift that the Podemos space has entered into since those very successful years of 2015 and 2016, beyond saying that these were elections in which they started from "an extremely complicated situation" because they barely had "very few resources and means." In his explanation, "the progressive electorate has made an effort to concentrate the vote on the BNG but this has not been enough."

From there, what is Podemos going to do? Are you going to try to reach an understanding with Sumar, the other big loser on election day? Fernández's responses do not exactly invite us to think that the Galician coup has removed anything in that sense. Not a single word to talk about the need for unity on the left or to reach out to Yolanda Díaz.

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Thus, he has stressed that the objective of Podemos is to "get back on its feet" to the "transformative left" in order to "reconnect with the social majorities and be able to once again inspire hope so that they go en masse to the polls." to vote on the Podemos project".

"There is a lot of work to do but we are determined to do so and in the next elections we will continue working in that direction because we do believe that it is essential that in Spain there is a party and a transformative left that is capable of giving that alternative to citizens and of provide answers to people's needs," he stressed.

Asked on several occasions about the next electoral event, that of

Euskadi

, Fernández has offloaded the decision of whether there is an agreement with Sumar to the "comrades" there. However, he stressed that in the Basque Country they have a project "consolidated for many years" and with "territorial roots" that makes them go to the Basque elections, expected to take place in April, with greater strength "which will be important in the face of to those elections." "Our colleagues already have a candidate, and in Euskadi it's the same thing, it's time to be able to convince citizens that there is a transformative option capable of transforming people's lives. That's what we are in and we will continue to be."

As for Sumar, Fernández has thrown balls out. "We have to be focused and concentrated on offering citizens a clear, transformative, left-wing project that is capable of improving people's lives. Something fundamental is to stop talking about ourselves and talk to people about the problems they have in presenting the proposals and the alternatives and solutions that Podemos offers to improve their lives and provide answers to their problems.