Alice Lopez |
Madrid (EFE) strength to be able to repeat the coalition government with Pedro Sánchez.
For now, the polls, although the prospects of the PSOE and Sumar have improved in recent days, still place this bloc in defeat.
I veto Montero on the lists
The start of the coalition of the Second Vice President and Minister of Labor has weighed down the “noise” that has generated the controversy over the veto of Irene Montero in the lists and the configuration of the candidacies, in which the purple ones feel relegated and their representation in Congress is threatened.
A row to which the permanent criticism of the former secretary general of Podemos Pablo Iglesias has contributed in large part, who has not left an attack against Díaz in the pipeline.
But once that chapter is closed, even if it was false, and with concrete proposals already on the board, such as the 32-hour work week or the universal inheritance for young people of 20,000 euros, the polls are pushing them up.
Also those managed by Sumar, who clings to the campaign and the electoral debates to increase his electoral base, taking into account that the voter, as all the demographic experts agree, decides his ballot increasingly later, many in the last days of the bell.
At the moment, Díaz does not exceed the barrier of 38 seats in any study and neither would they reach 15.3 percent of the votes they gathered in the November 2019 elections United We Can, Más País and Compromís, according to the latest barometer of the Center of Sociological Investigations (CIS) published on June 16 and which estimates the number of votes that the coalition would obtain at 14.3 percent.
For the purple ones, not reaching 40 deputies would be a failure
For the purples, who, although they have lowered the piston, are still stinging with Díaz for not having given them the leading role that they believe they should have in the coalition, not reaching 40 deputies would be a resounding failure.
In addition, they forecast that, with luck, they will get four representatives: Ione Belarra (number 5 for Madrid), Lilith Verstrynge (4 for Barcelona), Pilar Garrido (1 for Guipúzcoa) and Idoia Villanueva (1 for Navarra).
There are other candidates who have the Podemos card and with options to leave, but the purple ones do not count as their quota, for example, Txema Guijarro, who heads the Alicante list and who has been separated by the management for some time.
The immediate precedent for the general elections is the municipal and regional elections on May 28, whose results for Sumar’s parties were bad. Sumar did not attend those elections but Díaz got fully involved in the campaign to support his partners in what has been interpreted as the general rehearsal of his project.
And in this trial of 28M, Podemos directly sank while some of Sumar’s main allies (the commons, IU, Más Madrid and Compromís) lost key institutions, such as the Valencian Community or the Barcelona City Council.
The campaign begins on Friday and Yolanda Díaz will play the trick of management (the drop in unemployment, the implementation of the SMI or the housing law) to try to bring Moncloa to this coalition made up of fifteen forces and thus reissue a government with Pedro Sanchez.
They put all the focus on enabling Spaniards to live better, with more time to enjoy their lives, on feminism and caring for the planet, and they will ask for a vote for what they have already done and for what remains to be done.