Seville, (EFE).- The tensions between Podemos and Sumar, the platform promoted by Yolanda Díaz, who will announce her candidacy for the presidency of the Government this Sunday, has been transferred as a reply to Por Andalucía, the coalition of Podemos, IU or Más Country, which looks at April 2 with similar positions as its general directorates.
This Saturday a Federal Coordinator of the IU, the largest body between assemblies, is being held, and the State Citizen Council of Podemos is convened, in an intense week for the left, which at the moment does not see an agreement between Yolanda Díaz and Podemos to close the unit.
The purple formation requires the vice president’s team to make a written commitment to hold open primaries to choose the lists for the next general elections, a condition that they set to attend the event on Sunday.
Two days before she announces her candidacy and without a closed agreement, Yolanda Díaz has urged Podemos: “I would love for the leaders to be there, at key moments in history you have to be there.”
Podemos Andalusia waits for Madrid
With this scenario, the differences have been echoed in Por Andalucía (Podemos, IU, Más País, Verdes Equo and Iniciativa del Pueblo Andaluz), which face the “historic” appointment on Sunday replicating the positions of their national leaderships.
Podemos Andalucía keeps a closed silence about the possibility of being present at the presentation ceremony of Sumar and Yolanda Díaz and is waiting for what Madrid decides.
Management sources, similar to the postulates of Pablo Iglesias and Belarra, have explained to EFE that they have not received any order not to attend the Sumar act, but put forward the “need” for both parties to reach an agreement about holding an open primary.
The tension between Podemos and Sumar was already evident on March 19 in Seville, when Yolanda Díaz presented her project for the first time in Andalusia. No leader of the Andalusian purple leadership was at the event, which was attended by three candidates for mayors, including Seville, Susana Hornillo, a low-key representation.
Faced with this position, the Andalusian leaders of the IU and Más País agree to offer clear and open support for the beginning of Sumar, of a project of “country for the unity of the progressive left” and criticize that Podemos has “castled” before to start walking.
“Unnecessary” noise
Sources from both parties have expressed to EFE their discomfort at the “unnecessary noise” that Podemos is causing in the negotiations with Sumar, a strategy – they maintain – that does not benefit the project led by Yolanda Díaz for the general elections.
The federal coordinator of the IU and Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón, will attend the event on Sunday with the staff of his formation, which will also have the presence of the Andalusian coordinator, Toni Valero, and part of his management, although this formation sends also representatives from Córdoba, Málaga, Almería, Granada or Seville.
Like the spokesman for Más País in Congress, Íñigo Errejón, the president of Más País Andalucía and deputy spokesperson for the parliamentary group Por Andalucía, Esperanza Gómez, will attend the presentation of the political project that is forging the vice president
This delegation will be joined by representatives of Verdes Equo Andalucía and Iniciativa del Pueblo Andaluz, the other formations that make up the confluence of the Andalusian left. EFE
