What do we know and what we don’t know about Yolanda Díaz’s electoral platform?

  • The second vice president prepares her broad front, but there are still more unknowns than certainties

  • Some alliances are beginning to appear on the horizon, although old frictions could complicate things

The left to the left of the PSOE is awaiting a transformation. With eyes set on Yolanda Diaz. The second vice president of the Government and leader of United We Can wants to build a “broad forehead“That he is in permanent contact with civil society. That is all he has revealed. Nothing more. But with his words, gestures and silences he begins to emerge. what are your intentions. However, her plans are complex – she herself assures that it is difficult to materialize them in a simple idea – and the context that surrounds her is not the most appropriate either.

The starting point and strategy

Before getting into the matter of Díaz’s plans, it is necessary to understand from what position the vice president starts. In March, Pablo Iglesias He announced that he was leaving the Government to stand in the Madrid elections. At that time, the founder of Podemos anointed Yolanda Díaz as the leader of the executive’s purple wing and a candidate for the next elections. Galician politics has not yet accepted this commission.

Without any organic power –Ione Belarra is the secretary general of Podemos and Alberto Garzon the federal coordinator of the IU- nor a militant card -only he keeps that of the PCE For “honor” to the family tradition-, Díaz assumed the controls of United Podemos and the second vice presidency. A few months later he announced his intention to reconfigure the space.

It is difficult to get a complete picture of Díaz’s project. The vice president has been insisting on the same ideas for months: a space in which parties are not a priority; without egos; and with a high participation of civil society. On a near horizon – not yet specified – the purple leader wants to initiate a round of contacts with civil representatives throughout the Spanish territory. “I will be a lever of approach to the problems of society“He is proud. It remains to be seen what those contacts turn into.

The closest model in terms of formality, explain sources close to the vice president, is’The Republic on the Move ‘, the platform that propelled Emmanuel Macron to the Elysee palace. The secret of the French president’s success was knowing how to disassociate himself from the parties. And that is exactly what Díaz is pursuing – for the moment with little success -: to open space, to overwhelm United We Can and other formations that can collaborate in his political project, giving ground to the representatives of civil society. To the point of integrating them into the electoral lists.

How do they see it at United We Can?

Whenever Díaz is asked about the games that will accompany him in this journey, she emphasizes that this is not about training. Neither of egos. But the act ‘Other policies’ in which the vice president participated together with the leaders of Compromís and Más País, Monica Oltra and Monica Garcia, and in which the “start of something wonderful“They have once again set their sights on the alliances. These new bridges or, rather, the reconstruction of those that one day burned down have sat differently in each United We Can party.

The public message of the purples is clear: Diaz marks the times of this new project and has in his hand to build new alliances. However, in the ranks of Podemos it was decided that neither Belarra nor Irene Montero were invited to the ‘Other Policies’ event held in Valencia last week. Neither of them applauded the event on social media. “I wish Ione and Irene were there“, Iglesias said this week. In addition, in the purple formation one lives with a certain nervousness to relive a stage in which the internal life of the party copes today. Thus, Iglesias also urged her to close this process when before.

This act today is very important. Committed women who show that it is possible to make another policy, “Garzón said on Twitter as soon as the event ended in Valencia before thanking this” necessary gesture. “With the same passion, the secretary general of the PCE, Enrique Santiago. Thus, everything indicates that IU is fully committed to Díaz’s project.

In the third leg of United We can also see with good eyes the intentions of the vice president. Ada Colau, mayor of Barcelona and leader of the ‘commons’, participated in the event in Valencia. And this weekend he will meet again with Díaz at the closing of the congress of the Catalan purple. Sources of En Comú Podem assure that it is “Good news“The creation of a” project that joins the political forces and is also capable of attracting people from social and professional sectors. ”

Is there a possibility of new alliances?

The Valencia event drew the possible alliances that Díaz has in mind. Oltra, vice president of the Valencia Community and leader of Commitment, and García, leader of the opposition in the Madrid Assembly and leader of More Madrid, are part of the vice president’s first contacts to reconnect with two political actors who were once part of Podemos or were in a coalition.

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Íñigo Errejón left Podemos in December 2019 to build Más Madrid together with Manuel Carmena after a confrontation with Iglesias that lasted for years. Since then, Podemos and Más País – Errejón’s state brand – have gone separately, but Díaz’s “broad front” could make them meet again. “That pride“Errejón said on Twitter after the event in Valencia. The purple ones have also given their approval for More Country to join the new project, although friction from years ago could complicate it.

The Valencian formation presented itself in coalition with Podemos to the general elections of 2016. Later, the spokesperson for Compromís in Congress, Joan Baldoví, broke off the relationship. In 2019, after the emergence of Más País, they allied with Íñigo Errejón. Now, Díaz’s approach to Oltra – always prone to allying himself with the purple ones – could facilitate a new understanding.

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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