Yolanda Diaz disembarks in Andalusia to achieve an agreement between the left. The deadline for registering the joint candidacy expires this Friday at 11:59 p.m. and the fight continues between Podemos, which wants to place the civil guard Juan Antonio Delgado as a candidate for the Board, and the rest of the formations, who welcome a candidacy headed by the parliamentary spokesperson for the United Left, immaculate grandsonafter failing the attempt to place an independent in this position.
The second vice president of the Government has attended the Seville Fair this Thursday to cover Nieto, in a meeting that has brought together all the actors, with the presence of the Minister of Consumption and leader of IU, Alberto Garzón, the leader of IU Andalucía, Tony Valerothe secretary general of Podemos Andalucía, Martina Velarde and his own Juan Antonio Delgadoin addition to the leader of More Country Andalusia, Hope Gomezand Equo Andalucía, Sea Gonzalez.
The negotiations for reaching an agreement are stuck”, according to negotiating sources, and in the last two days there has been no communication between the two main actors in the pact, IU and Podemos. The purple deputy appeared this Wednesday to announce himself as the winner of the party’s internal primaries, reaching out to the rest of the forces, but since then, no leader of Podemos would have answered the calls from the rest of the parties, according to reports.
Faced with these difficulties, the second vice-president of the Government has attended this Thursday and, after the institutional visit of rigor, she plans to maintain a encounter with all forces that these days seek agreement. The appointment, which will have an “informal” character, is at the PCE booth, the only party in which the Galician leader is a member. The secretary of the Organization of Podemos, Lilith Vestrynge, has also traveled to Seville, who maintains “continuous conversations”, according to the purples.
The Vice President’s visit has served to publicly support Inmaculada Nietothe candidate that has been accepted by all concurrent forces except for we canwhich continues to bet on Delgado to lead the candidacy and is opposed by IU and Más País, considering that it should be a woman who leads the coalition.
This week, Yolanda Díaz has held informal meetings in Madrid with Alberto Garzon and Henry Santiago to give the go-ahead to the Andalusian spokesperson as the highest representative of the Andalusian ‘broad front’. This Thursday, the vice president has posed embracing the possible candidate of the coalition, in what has been interpreted as a gesture of public support for the IU spokesperson as a candidate.
The Vice President of the Government has been defending for months that the agreement must be reached by Andalusian agents, far from any guardianship from Madrid. The leader would only agree to go to Andalusia to “bless” the agreement once it was forged. Finally, Díaz has gone to Seville in extremis, a few hours before the deadline to reach a unity pact expires, to force Podemos to accept the candidate elected by the rest of the parties.
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And it is that Andalusia is of special importance for Yolanda Díaz, since it will be the first scenario in which an agreement between different forces is attempted, following the model undertaken by the Galician. In recent months, the leader of the United We Can space has expressed her intention to build a candidacy at the national level so that the leftists meet again and that she is away from any party structure. A model that arouses significant misgivings in Podemos, which is looking for a leading role in the future project.
These differences, added to the obvious disagreements in the purple wing of the Government between Díaz and the purple ministers, Ione Belarra and Irene Montero, has led to a significant distance between the next presidential candidate and the organization founded by Pablo Iglesias.