Gerard Melgar Barcelona
Barcelona
Updated Wednesday, March 27, 2024-19:57
If, at the beginning of the year, the debate in the Catalan leadership of
Podemos
was whether or not to go into an electoral coalition with
Catalunya en Comú
(the party led by
Ada Colau
) to reissue the
En Comú Podem
formula , the advance of the regional elections has changed the turns and the
purple ones
have activated the handbrake.
Podem Catalunya
will not appear in the elections on
May 12 , according to what
El Periódico
reported this afternoon
.
"Faced with a moment of uncertainty and political instability in Catalonia, we choose not to collaborate in the fragmentation of the left, since that only benefits the right and the extreme right. Therefore, exercising responsibility towards the Catalan citizens, we have decided not present ourselves," the party justifies its decision in a statement.
Since the creation of
Sumar
, a year ago, the alliance of Podem and Catalunya en Comú has experienced a progressive deterioration. The En Comú Podem coalition was born in 2015 and, in the general elections in December of that year and the repetition in June 2016, it was the most supported force in Catalonia with percentages of 25% of the votes.