Madrid (EFE).- Territorial leaders of Podemos in the Community of Madrid, the Valencian Community, Extremadura and Navarra have advocated this Wednesday for the confluence of their formation with Sumar ahead of the next general elections on July 23.
Through various means, they have called for self-criticism, assuming “responsibilities” in some cases and learning the lesson of the experiences lived in previous electoral events such as the last one on May 28 or the elections in Andalusia in 2022.
The candidate of Podemos-IU-Alianza Verde for the Presidency of the Community of Madrid in the last elections, Alejandra Jacinto, has called for “unity” to the political forces to the left of the PSOE, taking as a reference what happened in the region the elections of 28M, to which Más Madrid and Podemos attended separately and were not able to “stop the right”.
Jacinto has thus referred in a reflection on his blog to what happened in the last regional elections, in which Podemos was left out of the parliamentary arc of the Madrid Assembly by not reaching 5% of the necessary votes.
“The PP has lost the vote. He has obtained an absolute majority, yes, but he has lost the vote. I think we would have managed to stop the right if we had achieved the unity of the progressive forces to the left of the PSOE. Unity, not as a fetish, unit not only as a result; Unity as a way of doing common politics both inside and outside the institutions”, he defended.
The electoral result of May 28 changed everything
In his opinion, the electoral result of May 28 leaves this conclusion and “illuminates the path to follow for the next electoral appointment”: “If we know how to read what happened, we have before us the clues to write the future,” he opined.
For their part, Podem militants in the Valencian Community have promoted a manifesto in which they claim to integrate “into a broad confluence structured from Sumar” and that there be primaries at the provincial level to elect the representatives of this formation in the candidacies for the elections. generals of July 23.
They have asked that responsibilities be immediately assumed for the “catastrophic” results of 28M in a document signed by the Podem spokesman in Alicante, Xavier López, the candidates for mayor of Elche, Moisés García, and Moncofa, Rafael Segarra, or the mayor in Alberic during two legislatures Alfonso Martínez, among others.
In the text they have highlighted that the results of Podem on 28M have contributed to the end of the progressive government of the Botànic and leave them with just a dozen councilors, with which the viability of the project “is in question” without any ” critical analysis” and without the top leaders having assumed responsibilities.
Transparency and participation
They have demanded “transparency and participation” in the configuration of the Podem team that “can and should” be integrated into the confluence with Sumar and that primaries be held for the lists, “as it always should have been and is established in the statutes” of the party , because they do not believe “in the plumbing”, and even less in that of those who have “led them to electoral failure”.
Also this Wednesday, the leader of United for Extremadura, Irene de Miguel, has shown herself to be sure that there will finally be an agreement between Podemos and Sumar for an alliance for 23J.
De Miguel has referred in an interview on Canal Extremadura to another example from which in his opinion the purple formation should learn: “I think that the show that is being given is not convenient at all. I think we already saw it in the Andalusian elections and we cannot allow mistakes of this type, so I believe that those who do not want unity have to step aside, ”he opined.
“The agreement between Podemos and Sumar should have arrived months ago”
Finally, the leader of Podemos in Navarra and head of the list of the Contigo Navarra coalition, Begoña Alfaro, has pointed out in statements to the media this Wednesday that the agreement between the purple formation and Sumar “should have arrived months ago” and would consider an “irresponsibility” that there was no agreement to go together to the general elections.
“If there is no agreement, we will assess what to do; It would be irresponsible because it could red carpet to the right”, commented Alfaro, who specified that Contigo Navarra is waiting for that “long-awaited agreement” to take place at the state level to decide how to run for these elections in the region.