Alice Lopez |
Madrid (EFE) days from the entry into force of the dissolution of the Cortes.
Tomorrow the royal decree of dissolution will be published in the BOE, which can enter into force tomorrow or Wednesday, thus beginning the ten-day period to register electoral coalitions and 20 for the presentation of complete lists.
After the collapse of Podemos in yesterday’s municipal and regional elections and the setback of the most enthusiastic brands with Yolanda Díaz’s project (comunes, Compromís, Más Madrid or IU) they all now have a maximum of 12 days to reach an agreement .
In the case of Podemos, they must overcome the strong discrepancies that the purples have faced with the second vice president of the Government since she began to develop her electoral project, in November 2021, to the point that not even Podemos attended the presentation of his candidacy in Magariños, on April 2.
Willingness to reach agreements by both parties
Just as Belarra has made clear his willingness to negotiate to reach an agreement, Díaz has also taken a step forward by ensuring that he “assumes the challenge” to do things “in another way” and that they are already working to win to the PP on July 23.
That is the reading that the Minister of Labor has taken from the electoral result after the poor results of the alternative left, insisting that the message of the polls was clear: “You have to do things differently”, without specifying what direction they are going to take
A different reading from the one Belarra has made in a brief institutional statement without questions and without self-criticism, in which he has limited himself to emphasizing that many progressive people are “sad and worried” about the advance “of the reactionary wave” that was evident yesterday in the elections.
The result, he has predicted, will entail cuts in public services, privatizations and a reversal of social rights, but they come out to win, he said, and to govern “with more force.”
With the primaries in focus
He has not made a single mention of the debacle of the purples, who would only maintain their presence in the Government of Navarra of the six in which they were (apart from the regional community, the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands, Aragon, the Canary Islands and La Rioja). and that they are going backwards in almost all the autonomous parliaments (they have lost almost 70% of territorial power).
They have also been left out of the Madrid Assembly and have not managed to enter the City Council of the capital.
At the Podemos headquarters they assure that they are calm and that they are ready to face this advance that, according to them, they had been warning for a long time that it could happen.
Although the deadlines are pressing, they have no doubt that there is time to hold the primaries to choose all the candidates. Precisely the condition of signing a prior agreement to hold open primaries that Díaz did not assume was the reason why the purples got off Magariños, tightening the rope with Sumar.
Pablo Iglesias: The left must go hand in hand to elections
Alberto Garzón, federal coordinator of the IU and Minister of Consumption, another of the defeated of the night, also puts himself in electoral mode to present a country proposal that “allows us to stop the reactionary wave.”
In this scenario that has opened by surprise, the former general secretary of Podemos Pablo Iglesias, who continues to be a fundamental piece in the strategy of the purples, has indicated in his La Base program that what is unquestionable is that the entire space of the progressive left has to go hand in hand with the elections on July 23.
You have to understand the possibilities that are opening up after yesterday’s elections and also understand the progress that has been made on the right, said Iglesias.
Along the same lines, the co-founder of Podemos Juan Carlos Monedero, not as critical as Iglesias with Yolanda Díaz, has also expressed himself on social networks: “Sumar and Podemos are 65 seats. We risk the country. Urgent”.