The last promotional video of Podemos reopens the tensions with Díaz and IU at the gates of 28-M | Spain

The video of Podemos to promote the rally next Saturday in Zaragoza that would officially start the party’s pre-campaign for the May 28 elections reopens the tensions in the political space to the left of the PSOE. The veiled criticism of the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, the United Left or the PCE have not gone down well with the confederate group at the gates of an election in which both Podemos and the IU are risking all their territorial power. Both formations reached agreements in at least nine of the 12 communities at stake and must campaign together. In We can recognize that the dispute between the formation of Ione Belarra and Sumar, the platform promoted by the vice president, disrupts the debate and moves away from the objective of the next 28-M. The video in which Díaz or Minister Alberto Garzón are questioned, without mentioning them, for putting themselves in profile on issues such as the war in Ukraine or NATO has already been answered by some leaders.

“I don’t know if we can start competing to see who is redder or who is less red. It is not that question, but we need each and everyone to achieve the objectives we are looking for. And the videos, like the performances that we can have in a program, are nothing more than useful instruments. Does the video work? It hurts a bit, I feel a bit attacked and I would never do that with Podemos”, reflected on the same Tuesday Carlos Sánchez Mato, responsible for Izquierda Unida Programs and adviser in the Ministry of Equality —in the hands of Irene Montero—, during an intervention on Canal Red, the Internet television channel directed by former Vice President Pablo Iglesias. “I don’t like sticking my finger in the eye of fellow travelers,” she concluded.

In similar terms, demanding to “take care” of relations between parties, the leader of the PCE and the parliamentary spokesman for the IU, Enrique Santiago, spoke about the internal situation on the radio program online Raw meat. “It is about reaching the elections all together and together. We have to take care of ourselves, we do not negotiate in the same way with enemies in a war as with colleagues with whom we have to start a common project. We have time to do it, ”he confided.

He network video It was published this Tuesday, three days after the start of the Spring Festival — Podemos’ annual meeting open to the public and which includes talks and concerts — and only a month and a half before the municipal and regional elections. For these comedians, the organizations of Belarra and Garzón have reached agreements in nine communities and in four of them (Navarra, Canarias, Murcia and Cantabria) the pact to compete together occurs for the first time. From Izquierda Unida they consider that the promotional tape has not been liked by their party and they believe that whoever produced it has not thought about the territories, although they minimize the impact it may have on relations between formations in the campaign.

Asked about this matter, the co-spokesperson for Podemos and candidate for the presidency of the Community of Madrid for UP, Alejandra Jacinto, has rejected this Wednesday possible effects. “It is a video that demonstrates what a force like Podemos is, with the courage to transform things, that faces up, even though sometimes there are consequences for it, to undertake the great social transformations that the country needs”, has underlined in line with the claim of the ad and with what was expressed by Montero first thing in the morning in an interview on RNE. The head of Equality, without valuing the role of Díaz, has endorsed the central argument of the video.

“Podemos is the militant of a lifetime who hallucinates and is outraged when he sees that his ministers stand in profile with NATO and the war in Ukraine and that only Ione [Belarra] says what he thinks. And he gets angry because he likes red more than purple and he remembers that Podemos did not like it at first, but his instinct tells him who his people are ”, describes the narrator in the tape alluding to the positions -aligned with President Pedro Sánchez— of the Vice President and the Minister of Consumption during the shipment of government weapons to Kiev.

The particularly sensitive issue for organizations in space —Izquierda Unida was born in 1986 in the heat of the mobilizations before the referendum to ratify, or not, the entry of Spain into NATO four years earlier— has caused great discomfort in the party of Waiter. In addition to their historical trajectory, it was recently the leaders of the IU and the PCE who were in the protest prior to the Atlantic Alliance summit in Madrid, in the absence of members of the Belarra leadership. Already in September, during the vote in Congress on the accession of Sweden and Finland to the institution, and with the PSOE in favor, Podemos and the territorial platforms En Comú Podem and Galicia en Común decided to abstain, while the deputies of Izquierda Unida (All except the Minister of Consumption) voted against the entry of both countries into the organization.

From the second vice president’s team they refuse to enter to assess the last video of the training, and the one that also alludes to some words by Díaz in which the person in charge of Labor defends going beyond the “little corner” to the left of the socialists. Fuentes de Podemos believes that the fight between Sumar and Belarra’s party, as well as the internal debate on the generals, creates noise, thins the campaign and deviates from the objective for this 28-M in squares where they see it as important to fight. But the agreement with the vice president has not yet been forged and the organization claims its influence on the future project. Montero herself insisted this morning that there is a “questioning” about the “specific weight” of each formation. “There are those who believe that Podemos has to occupy a secondary role”, she conceded before demanding new open primaries to configure the lists in the elections scheduled for December.