The adds of adding the debate on the candidates after the jump of Montero | Spain
« Before talking about negotiations, we would have to decree a truce. It is difficult to rebuild in the midst of an open fire, » he reflected without restrictions on Monday morning the MEP of Almar Jaume Asens, asked for the umpteenth time about the unity of the left in RNE. Just 24 hours after we can stage the launch of Irene Montero As a candidate for the generals and asked him to lead a “not only” list of his party, the organizations that make up the coalition of Yolanda Díaz have deflated the possibilities of an imminent agreement. No one has surprised the movement, but they reply that the unit is not built around a name and that the choice process must be « democratic », with primary. Although in Sunday Podemos did not mention parties, Pablo Iglesias, founder of the training and still appears of enormous influence in his direction, has reiterated this Monday in TVE the thesis set forth a week ago: adding is a “loser formula” and is “decomposing”. For him, the unity goes through that a part of that coalition is integrated into the ranks of the PSOE and the other, it is ally with them (the party « may be very generous with other smaller political formations that want to walk together, » he said). At this point, the role of the United Left is essential, who, although in private, from Podemos they call to choose side.
But Antonio Maíllo, Federal Coordinator of IU, hit the table on Monday by reinvindicating that they can also Lead that left candidacy of the socialists. At a press conference he defended that they will focus first on the « construction of the political proposal » and then the referents, chosen by primary system. Maíllo explained that members of all parties and people may be presented to this process. « We are clear that we will respect the results that are obtained. As if we present a candidate and win. Then we will ask that the rest of the organizations be cohesive around it, which is a possibility that can be given, » he said, opening the door to be IU who leads and discarding that no finger « candidate is chosen. Precisely in 2023, that was one of the main dispute reasons between the formation of Ione Belarra, which demanded primary to agreeand the Díaz platform, which finally configured the lists in negotiations with each game and leaving out Irene Montero.
« It will be people. They will not be Pablo Iglesias, nor Ione Belarra, or Yolanda Díaz, nor Lara Hernández who talk about the conditions of the unit when she touches, because there are two years for 2027 », said Hernández herself, coordinator of Movement of Sumar, the party created by Díaz. The formation approved 10 days ago in her assembly a Resolution to weave alliances with the rest of the formations left, without excluding any. Their documents also assume the primary as a method for choice of lists. « The unit is not built around the same, » adding sources from the party privately, who interpret that Montero’s announcement has to do with the rhythms of his congress, which culminates next weekend, and is also a way to shake the pressure after the agreements adopted by the Summar Movement to work for the unit.
Although the time chosen for the announcement was not expected, in we can justify that the decision is given within the framework of its V State Citizen Assembly, in which they already define the « road map » for the next electoral cycle. A way, in addition, of being prepared at a possible advance – hypothesis that often stir. For a leader of another match of the Sumar coalition, the movement shows the intention of Podemos to « plant battle » and seeks to generate a story of « certainties » around them, which intend to pilot the project to the left of the PSOE. Another emphasizes that it is a gesture to « isolate » the Core of Díaz and approach the rest.
« Advance debates for those missing for more than two years does not help, » replied the deputy spokeswoman of the Common, Aina Vidal, this Monday in Barcelona. Also in more Madrid they avoided assessing the announcement about a candidacy for elections that « are neither summoned nor any intention to convene », in the words of their spokesman in the City Council of the capital, Rita Maestre.
Huntsman, List head by Pode last June, he had been exercising as an electoral leader in a kind of bicephaly with Belarra, which will be ratified on Saturday as general secretary. The leader came to announce in December, during the dinner of the Awards of the Association of Parliamentary Journalists, which the MEP « would return soon. » For now he does not leave the act, but he has already pledged to work for a “peace” candidacy, holding his hand to organized civil society and those “disenchanted” with the government.
« We would deserve a certain silence, or respect, among the actors aimed at converging, » Asens, former president of the Parliamentary Group of Unidas Podemos on Monday, defended on Monday. « The resentment is aging anger. In politics one cannot afford the resentment »; The MEP reflected before asking to « leave the wounds behind » to seek an agreement before « colliding » with reality.
