We can hold social democracy | Spain

There is no doubt that Unidas Podemos was born and consolidated as a political force to the left of the PSOE. Adding was also to the left of the Socialists and together they went to the elections in July 2023 very badly. The seed of discord had sprouted and fruitful.

The first left -wing coalition political experiment in postfranchistic Spain is sustained with socialists and adding, already without Podemos, which disqualifies Pedro Sánchez’s policies. In the cataract of public interventions within Podemos, propitiated by the celebration of its V Assembly, social democracy is given. The socialists and social democrats belong to « war parties. » Pedro Sánchez is one of them. And add, sitting on the same Council of Ministers, too.

These considerations of Podemos, intensified by the international context and the requirement of the United States and NATO to Europeans, of course to Spain, to trigger their expense in defense, have meant a sake for those who from different areas of the left work by the electoral unit. The discouragement is ostensible and reaches the PSOE. Without a left to your left with significant representation, the possibilities of reissueing a coalition government are moving away. All the surveys were forecast, before this weekend we can say that adding the only thing he could and should do is dissolve in the PSOE. In addition to declaring them dead as a political space.

That was not the tone in which the Congress of adding two weeks ago. The request for a reissue of a unitary candidacy such as July 2023 was the most relevant fact, given the hostility that they profess to add and we can

There is no affection, nor sympathy between the leaders of Podemos and add; Personal and political rupture is total. The difference between the two is that the internal reflections of adding are directed to the difficult objective of convincing millions of citizens to support them to reissue a coalition government with the socialists. Disagreements with the PSOE exist, but coaligned lead to negotiating and giving up. « The PSOE also yields and in relevant matters, » they emphasize in adding.

There are no « transformative policies » in the government since Pedro Sánchez « threw Podemos », in expression of the re -elected General Secretary, Ione Belarra. The kicks to the partners paid by the American president, Donald Trump, and the need to rearma and increase the defense budgets has given Podemos to focus the debate and the attack on the government in the revived « not to war. »

We can look at two decades ago to try to attract voters from all over the left, who now slide towards abstentionist positions. In any case, the preeminence to the left of the PSOE is at stake. What worries them is not to reissue the government, and not who commands outside their space, although they recognize their preference for the space that Yolanda Díaz represents.

Podemos has given a door to the dialogue to converge between the national and regional lefts. « The PSOE and add are in a war coalition; the PSOE wants a docile left, not to replicate. » This is what Ione Belarra points to, and the appointed candidate for the general elections, Irene Montero. « Amar has committed the possibilities of transformation of the left, and that is not fixed with talking about the unit, » Montero said in an interview with El País this week.

The general coordinator of the United Left, Antonio Maíllo does not throw the towel. After the Congress and the Assembly of adding and Podemos, respectively, IU prepares an act on April 26 in Madrid in which he will dare to advocate the unity of the leftist forces. It is their obligation because millions of citizens want it, they consider in IU.

In Andalusia it is possible. Today’s calculations are all parties: if they are separated, everyone loses, and in the case of we can even jeopardize their presence in the Andalusian Parliament. That vertigo can cause the left in Andalusia to take hand. Not in the rest of Spain. But nothing is written, they want to believe in the PSOE, knowing that today there is no basis to believe in a new coalition.