Politics Yolanda Díaz's partners reject a "bilateral" negotiation with Podemos and ask for a party table

The increase in "pressure" from Podemos to screw Yolanda Díaz to a chair until an agreement is reached that recognizes the "weight" of the purple party in the future candidacy of the general elections arouses not only suspicion among the political forces closest to the vice president It is that, in fact, they flatly reject such a scenario, according to the different sources consulted in several of those parties

Politics Yolanda Díaz's partners reject a "bilateral" negotiation with Podemos and ask for a party table

The increase in "pressure" from Podemos to screw Yolanda Díaz to a chair until an agreement is reached that recognizes the "weight" of the purple party in the future candidacy of the general elections arouses not only suspicion among the political forces closest to the vice president It is that, in fact, they flatly reject such a scenario, according to the different sources consulted in several of those parties.

Díaz's partners refuse to open a "bilateral" negotiation with Podemos now and leave the other forces for after the main thing has been tied. In this sense, they advocate opening a party table in which the organizations that wish to come together in the same candidacy sit down.

For this reason, and despite the insistence of Podemos to force a bilateral agreement now, Díaz has the support and request of other allies from inside and outside the space of United We Can who claim to postpone any type of formal negotiation until June after the elections. Because now, they emphasize, what it is time to "focus" on achieving the best results in the town halls and the autonomous communities.

Thus, several of the political forces most in tune with Yolanda Díaz believe that "this is not the time" to talk about the electoral lists or about primaries. When it's time, which will be after overcoming the May challenge, remarks one of these sources, "we will all want to talk." That is why there is no concern with that horizon, nor is there a desire to open that melon now that it would cause a distraction from what they consider most important, which is facing the May elections.

The one who has been manifesting his positions in public more clearly is IU. A resolution has been approved since January in which it proposes the "setting up of a table of political organizations with representation of all the organizations that want to participate in the Sumar process in particular and in the construction of the country project in general." ».

It is at that table where everyone would talk about everything, that is, electoral lists, the possible celebration of primaries, the governing bodies of the coalition, the distribution of economic resources or party advisers. The usual in this type of agreement, where many interests are at stake.

Podemos does not give its arm to twist for the moment and presses every time it has the opportunity to summon Díaz to a negotiation and to provide "certainties" about the role that the party is going to play in the future alliance, and that it demands that it be preponderant . "The party that Yolanda is setting up with the Communist Party and Más Madrid is different from Podemos but we want to go to the elections together and for that what we need is an agreement and primaries," Irene Montero said yesterday, presenting Más Madrid and the PCE as part of Sumar and not as differentiated political subjects.

The last trick that the purples use to promote this pact is their presence on April 2 at the event that Díaz is organizing in Madrid to announce his candidacy. We can decline to go if he doesn't have an agreement beforehand. The days go by and the purple ones are almost the only ones from the alternative space to the PSOE who have not announced their assistance. It was confirmed yesterday by the mayoress of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, and Compromís; and before that the figures of Más Madrid, Mónica García and Rita Maestre, and IU, who "will turn" with Alberto Garzón and Enrique Santiago, did it. They will be Chunta, Equo or Alianza Verde.

In any case, now the tensions are focused on the primaries. As Podemos suspects that it could be relegated, without the weight it demands, it challenges Díaz to call "open primaries", aware that it is the force with the most militants and that it has the ability to give guidelines to vote and promote its candidates in detriment of others.

Díaz said yesterday that the Sumar lists "will be decided democratically by the citizenry", that this was not an "obstacle", but the commoners admit that a workhorse is the census. It would have to be configured again. They cannot be combined for data protection.

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