End of the mystery. Yolanda Díaz has revealed this Friday her campaign plan for the regional and municipal elections. The Sumar leader will try to square the circle. On the one hand, she will mainly cover candidates from Unidas Podemos but she will also participate in events and take photos with candidates from Más Madrid and Compromís.
That was the main morbidity of his role in this electoral campaign. Because the circumstance occurs that the space that aspires to unify under the umbrella of Sumar is fragmented in these elections on May 28. Mainly in places as high-profile as the Community of Madrid and the Valencian Community, where there is strong competition between Unidas Podemos, on the one hand, and Más Madrid and Compromís, on the other.
Díaz will try to please all of them, in a balancing act that, of course, the one who irritates the most is Podemos, who has been pressing her for months to campaign exclusively for Unidas Podemos, the coalition of purples and IU.
The second vice president will be on the morning of May 15 in the Pradera de San Isidro, celebrating the patron saint of Madrid, and will take a walk where she will meet many leaders and candidates. It is a kind way to see yourself and be photographed in the company of the Más Madrid candidates for the Community, Mónica García, and for the capital's City Council, Rita Maestre. It is something that Díaz already did at the launch of his candidacy for the general elections in Magariños on April 2 and that he also repeated on May 1, at the union demonstration for Labor Day.
Holding a rally with García and Maestre would have absolutely inflamed Podemos and would have also annoyed the IU, because the United Podemos candidacies of Alejandra Jacinto and Roberto Sotomayor are facing the precipice of not reaching the minimum threshold to obtain representation in the Assembly and the City Council from Madrid.
That same afternoon, Díaz will hold a campaign event in the symbolic town of Rivas (Madrid) for a municipal candidacy that is made up of IU and Más Madrid, and in which Podemos is not present because at the last minute he decided to get out of that agreement. That day, then, the leader of Sumar will expressly support candidates from Más Madrid, such as Charo Sandoval, who is number two on that list led by Aída Castillejo, from IU. Mónica García will not be present at the event, only local candidates, sources from the formation inform this newspaper. The Rivas City Council is not only the most populous that governs the IU in all of Spain, it is above all an emblem of its municipal management due to the number of years it has been in charge of the consistory.
As for the Valencian Community, Díaz will have to make balances on May 24 and 25. That Wednesday he will participate in a campaign event with the United Podemos candidate, Héctor Illueca. But the next day, Thursday, he will be in Valencia together with the mayor of the city, Joan Ribó, from Compromís, who is one of the most prominent figures in that formation.
The Valencian mayor is playing to reissue the Mayor's Office against the PP and Díaz comes to his aid to give him one last push in the final stretch. In principle, the Compromís candidate for the Generalitat, Joan Baldoví, who is a good friend of Díaz and whom he has praised on occasion on the occasion of his candidacy, will not be there.
Mónica García, Rita Maestre and Joan Ribó were in Magariños supporting Díaz when he announced that he would run for the generals at the end of the year. She returned the gesture from the stage with words of affection for the three, which were interpreted as a first show of support for the campaign. Later came the interview with La Sexta in which Díaz hinted that he would vote for Más Madrid. A reading that Podemos also did.
Regarding the campaign plan, Díaz will make a total of 18 interventions from May 10 to May 26. In the absence of knowing the complete calendar of the leaders of Podemos, the first reading is that the leader of Sumar will go free and will not coincide with Ione Belarra or Irene Montero.
Thus, the first relevant act is on the 10th in Alcorcón, in which he will support the municipal candidate of United We Can for the City Council of the southern city of Madrid, in which the government is governed in coalition with the PSOE.
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