The launch of Yolanda Díaz as Sumar's candidate and the absence of Podemos in the officialization act mark the political agenda this weekend and capture the attention even of formations that have nothing to do with the alternative left. The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, related this Saturday the new political "space" of Díaz with "the usual populism" and predicted a failure of the brand with which the second vice president of the Government will seek to transcend the purple in the December general election.
"When I had not yet decided to join the PP, those who say that now they are a space were already militant in the same party that now changes its name," Feijóo said without explicitly mentioning Díaz, in a clear allusion to the long political career of the PP. Minister of Labor in the different structures of the formations to the left of the PSOE in the last 25 years.
"Do you know why they have to constantly change their names?" asked the opposition leader. "Because they have nothing to offer the people", which is why he predicted that, despite the change of skin and identity, Sumar will not even have the support at the polls that Podemos has had or the previous political brands of which Díaz proceeds, like IU or the PCE. For this reason they are forced, he said, to change their name "every four years."
Parallel to the words of the popular president, Podemos increased the pressure on the vice president and urged her to sign a statement this Saturday that guaranteed the primary conditions that the purples demand. If not, the fracture between Yolanda Díaz and Podemos will be the main protagonist of the presentation of her candidacy with Sumar, called for this Sunday in Madrid as the starting signal for the polls.
"The more well-known they are, the less they vote for," Feijóo stressed to justify the new format with which the second vice president of the Executive plans to represent the space to the left of the Socialists. Faced with the populist parties, those who were constitutionalists but have replaced their roadmap with the one dictated by the nationalist formations - he said, referring to the PSOE - and those who claim to be like the PP but then "directly or indirectly benefit the PSOE "-a dart to Ciudadanos-, Feijóo expressed that "the only real guarantee of change" in Spain at the moment is the proposal of the PP.
This is how the popular leader expressed himself from Zaragoza, accompanied by the mayor of the city and regional candidate in Aragon on May 28, Jorge Azcón. Also for the candidate for mayor of Zaragoza, Natalia Chueca. Both institutions, the Government of Aragon and the Zaragoza City Council, are two important targets on the PP's agenda in the territorial and local elections. The popular ones aspire to revalidate the mayoralty of the Aragonese capital and to take advantage of Azcón's pull as mayor of Zaragoza to unseat Javier Lambán at the regional level, a defeat that would be hard for the PSOE at the national level.
In the act, the PP celebrated the first anniversary of the arrival of Feijóo in Genoa and thanked the "anonymous militancy" for its impulse at an organic level. Nearly 12,000 people have joined the PP in the last twelve months, according to data provided by the formation itself, and this is also a sign, they believe in the party, of the "widening" that Feijóo's project is assuming.
In fact, both the president of the party and Azcón stressed that this is what Aragon needs at this time in the face of the quadripartite and the little stability that the Lambán government offers in the territory. For now, the polls reflect a technical tie between the right and the left, so the position of Teruel Exists would be the key to determine the future of the regional Executive.
"Today the PP is better than a year. I assume the commitment that Spain will be better in a year than today," said Feijóo by way of summary of his first year at the wheel of the main opposition party, in relation to the serious crisis - "the worst that the PP has experienced", defined Azcón for his part - experienced in the heart of the formation in February 2022, which unleashed the internal war of the leadership with Isabel Díaz Ayuso and resulted in the fall of Pablo Casado and his right hand in Genoa, Teodoro García Egea.
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