Madrid (EFE)
In any case, the decision of Podemos will not be known before ten in the morning, which is when the internal consultation concludes so that the bases can rule on whether or not they support that the management have carte blanche to decide on the incorporation to Sumar .
As time is running out and there will be no possibility of consulting the militancy to ratify the agreement with Sumar, if any, the purple leadership has decided to propose an a priori referendum to have a free hand in the negotiation.
And it does so after pressure from various territorial directorates that have publicly asked that Podemos reach an agreement with Sumar, since they fear a setback for the purple party if they do not run together in the general elections.
The Sumar team did not want to rush the deadlines and give rise to a situation similar to what happened in the Andalusian elections of 2022 when Podemos was left out of the Por Andalucía coalition due to the entanglement in the registry, although the political agreement that they had previously reached, with poor results at the polls.
Negotiations between Podemos and Sumar in Valencia
Some aspects of the negotiations between Podemos and Sumar have emerged, such as the proposal, late yesterday, of the purple leadership to run alone in the Valencian Community in the face of “the evidence of the vetoes” to the candidates of the party led by Belarra, but go within the Díaz coalition in the rest of Spain, but Sumar has not accepted this proposal.
Despite everything, there are leaders of Podemos such as the coordinator of Murcia and third secretary of the Congress Table, Javier Sánchez, who assure that the agreement is close.
Parties adhered to the Sumar project
Meanwhile, several parties have been adhering to the project of the second vice president of the Government and of the fortnight with which they opened negotiations, Más Madrid-Más País has already been confirmed; Izquierda Unida, Chunta Aragonesista, Los Verdes Equo, – Proyecto Drago de Canarias, Iniciativa del Pueblo Andaluz, AraMés in the Balearic Islands and Batzarre in Navarra.
In addition to Podemos, the Compromís and Catalunya En Comú agreement have yet to be signed.
The Movement for Dignity and Citizenship (MDyC), a Muslim party in Ceuta, whose spokesperson, Fátima Hamed Hossain, supported Díaz from the beginning and with whom Sumar also opened negotiations, has decided not to attend 23J.