Baldoví cools Compromís’s alliance with Yolanda Díaz: “Many people have made us their promises”

Two of the main representatives of Commitment have exhibited this week the division that exists in the nationalist coalition before the approach of Yolanda Diaz to the formation of future electoral alliances together with We can. At the appearance of this Monday in which Monica Oltra and the Vice President of the Government overflowed complicity and expressed their willingness to “work together”, the deputy Joan Baldoví responded this Tuesday with a press conference with Íñigo Errejón (from More Country, from whom Podemos should snatch the alliance with Compromís).

Without anyone asking about itBaldoví referred to Díaz’s statements this Monday in the Valencian Community, in which he recognized that autonomy is the worst funded in Spain and promised to work to reverse this scenario. “Many people have made their promises to us, but nobody does anything“snapped the Valencian politician, who came to compare his speech with that of the last PP finance minister.” Without going any further, even Mr. Christopher Montoro“, he claimed.

“It is something that Compromís has been saying for ten years in Congress”He added, downplaying the words of the Vice President of the Government. “In any case, welcome be the good will of Minister Díaz. I hope they are not just words that are said when someone visits a territory“, it affected.

There were no explicit questions at the press conference about the possible future confluence of Compromís with the formation of Yolanda Díaz. But the environment of the Valencian deputy, consulted about it by this newspaper, recalls that “the experience with Podemos was not satisfactory” -In allusion to the refusal of the morados to allow a parliamentary group of their own to the Valencian coalition. Instead, they emphasize that Baldoví “has a very good relationship with Díaz and is open to dialogue.”

“Work together”

As EL ESPAÑOL reported on Tuesday, la Second Vice President of the Government and future leader of Podemos, Yolanda Diaz, intends to snatch More Country his alliance with Commitment In the Valencian community. The nationalist coalition, deeply rooted in autonomy, is the clear Valencian objective in the network of alliances that the left-wing leader of the PSOE aspires to weave. And this Monday he had the opportunity to show his complicity with the leader of the Valencian formation, Monica Oltra. “Our country would like to see women who, being different, are capable of working together,” he went on to affirm about her.

The Valencian vice president and leader of Compromís was even more explicit. “It is a path that I would like to follow with Yolanda Díaz”He said about the purpose of this to regroup the left in Spain. But the manifest will of both leaders faces a stumbling block. Currently the preferred partner of the coalition at the state level is the party of Íñigo Errejón. And Més (the old Bloc, which is the largest party of the three that make up Compromís and in which Baldoví is a member) is not for the task of undoing this union.

The rest of the actors involved do seem willing. Podem has always looked favorably on achieving the greatest possible alliance of the forces of the left. And its current delicate situation, with the party completely fractured, turns this desire into an emergency. The sector Pillar Five (related to Pablo Iglesias e Irene Montero) seized power in early 2021 and has pushed the Naiara Grandmother of the main positions of responsibility. This, ultimately, has resulted in the resignation of the Valencian vice president Rubén Martínez Dalmau and that of 7 critics of the party’s executive.

This, together with the fact that in the Valencian Community the electoral barrier stands at 5%, has triggered the alarms and has led the party to surrender to Díaz’s bet to regroup to the left. Its usual partner, Esquerra Unida del País Valencià (EUPV), is also in tune. The main leaders of the Valencian brand Izquierda Unida advocate forging alliances to stop the downward trend of Podemos, which obtained about 8% of the support in the Valencian autonomous regions of 2019 and barely exceeded 7% in the Madrid ones despite concurring with Pablo Iglesias as a candidate.

More vs. Initiative

But in the Bloc (now Més Compromís, name in the image and likeness of Más País) they are comfortable with their link with this young state formation, which lacks a presence in the Valencian Community and does not demand positions on the electoral lists or postulates in the Program. Everything is done according to orders and orders Compromís. Therefore they consider risky to settle under the umbrella of Podemos. They believe that broadening the electoral spectrum by going hand in hand dilutes the Valencian profile that It has led Compromís to differentiate itself at the polls and obtain good results in the regional and local elections. The most notorious, the mayor of Valencia.

From Iniciativa, Oltra’s party, they reply that Més’ real fear is that his leadership will be diluted by embracing more fractions of the left. And they cling to the results in the general elections to defend the concurrence with Podemos. The alliance To the Valencian Between Compromís, Podemos and EUPV, it achieved 9 Valencian deputies in Congress in 2016, 3 more than the PSOE. By contrast, in 2019, Compromís achieved only 1 under the umbrella of Más País. Podemos-EUPV won 4 seats. They lost four representatives by attending separately.

It remains to be seen, in any case, what is the formula that Díaz is betting on when the moment of seducing Compromís approaches. His state negotiation with Íñigo Errejón will also be decisive, to whom the vice president of the Government wants to approach without the obstacle that Iglesias supposed to bring both formations closer.

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