Madrid (EFE).- The second vice president of the Government and leader of the Sumar platform, Yolanda Díaz, said this Wednesday that she would like the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, to attend next Sunday the presentation of her candidacy for the general elections.
In statements to journalists in the halls of Congress minutes before the government control session, Díaz has not alluded to the negotiations with United We Can on the participation of the purple on the platform.
She has limited herself to pointing out that she is “very happy” for the presentation, next Sunday in Madrid, of Sumar’s electoral candidacy and has called “on the whole country to join in favor and, of course, to all the forces policies that, today, are many”.
The also Minister of Labor and Social Economy has assured that she would like “many people from Podemos and, above all, its general secretary” to attend the event.
Podemos responds to Díaz that if he wants him in his firm act before the primaries
The secretary of the Organization of Podemos, Lilith Verstrynge, has responded to Yolanda Díaz that if she considers it important that the purples be in the act of launching her candidacy, as the second vice president of the Government wished this Wednesday, “an agreement is in her hand of minimums” to commit to holding open primaries and for the citizenry to decide who will be the candidates to add.
With these words, the leader of Podemos has responded on TVE to Yolanda Díaz, who has assured in Congress that she would like “many people from Podemos and, above all, its general secretary (Ione Belarra)” to attend next Sunday the presentation of his candidacy for the general elections.
This minimum agreement, he has specified, is limited to the fact that there is a “basic” commitment in writing so that primaries are held open to all who want to participate because “it cannot be that only the militants or registered parties participate” that are incorporate Sumar, remembering that this is the way in which Podemos chooses its candidates.
In this way, the purple ones -he has said- want to avoid “pacts in offices” that have given rise to “terrible” situations, referring to Andalusia, where Podemos was left out of the left-wing coalition that participated in the 2022 regional elections, although it later joined to the political pact.
“We are not asking for great or incomprehensible things,” he stressed.