Madrid (EFE) other forces that will join the project share this procedure for choosing candidates.
Despite the fact that Podemos’s proposal has not been addressed by Sumar, who defends that this does not apply now, nor do they believe that it affects other forces such as the IU, the commons or Más País, the purples want to continue negotiating this week, until Sunday 2 April, which is when Díaz will announce his candidacy: “we are going to work to achieve that agreement, our will is to close it as soon as possible.”
This was stated by the purple spokesman, Pablo Fernández, at a press conference at the party headquarters, insisting that they are not throwing in the towel and are going to continue fighting for Díaz to accept open primaries “transparent and with all the guarantees.”
If all the forces likely to join the Díaz project agree that Sumar’s candidates be elected by primaries, he does not understand where the problem lies and for this reason he does not stop repeating that it is a “sensible and reasonable” condition that should be inherent “to any transforming space that wants to deepen democracy”.
Pablo Iglesias sees it as “sensible” and Garzón as “secondary”
The former Secretary General of Podemos Pablo Iglesias has also insisted that it would be “sensible” to commit to a primary process, sign it on paper -he stressed- to clear up any doubts, he said in an interview in Rac1, highlighting how “generous” who is being his party in this whole project.
He has not hesitated to charge against “some sectors of the left” who are taking advantage of the situation to say that Podemos is finished and, perhaps, the former leader of the purples has pointed out, they have to have a “tiny” role in the candidacy de Díaz but that has to be decided in primaries and “not in offices as happened in Andalusia.”
Another of those who spoke this Monday about all this controversy that is accompanying the launch of Díaz’s candidacy is the federal coordinator of the IU, Alberto Garzón, who has indicated that the issue of the primaries is something secondary and that “it has no sense to talk about lists”.
He has also sent a message to Podemos: “whoever leaked yesterday that Sumar did not accept his conditions and that he did not want an agreement, that person is working against the agreement, because at this moment everything that is making noise and wearing down Yolanda Díaz is work against the agreement.
A message along the lines of the one that Díaz herself left on Saturday in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, at the end of the listening process with the public, when she assured that what Sumar proposes is “to attend to the people who are outside”, not to talk of himself, warning that “a country is not won by defending a stretcher table and talking about electoral lists.”
More RSVPs
Meanwhile, less than a week after making his candidacy official, confirmations of attendance at this event continue to arrive. Today Íñigo Errejón, from Más País, and the Minister of Education, Joan Subirats, from En Comú, joined Garzón, Ada Colau, from the commons or the Aragonese Chunta, among others.
He has also confirmed to EFE that the Secretary General of United We Can attend Congress, Txema Guijarro, who is a member of the purple party and trusts that understanding is finally possible.
The third vice president of Congress, Gloria Elizo, who, although she is still in Podemos, goes free, will also be at the Magariños stadium and has made it clear that she adheres “to that generous agreement of Sumar.” As she has told EFE, the regional elections in May will be decisive in reaching an agreement.