Thursday, March 28

These are the positions and names of Podemos on the Sumar lists


A total of 15 starting places, of which 8 could be secured if the result of 23J is similar to that obtained in November 2019. These 8 would be: leading Navarra (Idoia Villanueva), Gipuzkoa (Pilar Garrido), Araba (Roberto Uriarte ), Cádiz, Murcia (Javier Sánchez Serna) and Las Palmas (Noemí Santana), number five for Madrid (Ione Belarra) and number four for Barcelona (Lilith Verstrynge). In none of these positions is Irene Montero, Minister of Equality, excluded during the negotiations with Sumar.

Compromís agrees to present itself to the general elections with Sumar with its own brand and autonomy

Further

In addition, Podemos obtains another 7 positions that require a better electoral result than that of four years ago to become seats: 1 for Ávila; 1 for Badajoz; 1 for Cáceres; 1 for Granada (Martina Velarde); 1 for Guadalajara; 1 for Palencia; 1 for Segovia; and 1 for Teruel.

In addition to Montero, the parliamentary spokesman for Unidas Podemos, Pablo Echenique, is not on the list of names signed between Podemos and Sumar for the general elections. Nor will the Government delegate for Gender Violence, Vicky Rosell, go on the lists.

Ione Belarra’s party has made the decision to run with Yolanda Díaz’s platform and has signed the electoral coalition after requesting a “fair” agreement without “vetos”. “Today we have registered a coalition but without an agreement. In the face of Sumar’s threat to leave us out as in Andalusia”, say Podemos sources: “We do not agree, because it contains the veto of Yolanda Díaz to Irene Montero”.

“Irene [Montero] has intervened in the Coordination Council to make itself available to Podemos to do what is necessary, however unfair it may be, to ensure unity”, said the Minister of Social Rights after the meeting of the Podemos executive: “But my response as Secretary General and that of all the members of the Secretariat has been that it seems to us not only an injustice, but also a tremendous political error. The second is that with the latest offer made by Sumar’s negotiating team, Podemos could be left without representation in the Congress of Deputies. This is something that does not seem fair to us. For all these reasons, the Coordination Council of Podemos has agreed to convey the following to Yolanda Díaz’s team: that Podemos’ commitment to unity is firm and that the signing of Podemos in the coalition is guaranteed, but we want to reach a fair agreement ”.

The agreement also includes 23% of the economic resources and representatives in commissions for Podemos.

The party leadership has met this Friday to analyze the follow-up on the negotiations and the results of the consultation of the bases called yesterday.

Podemos asked its subscribers if they gave powers to the secretariat, to the executive of the party, to negotiate and, where appropriate, accept a coalition agreement with Sumar. Yesterday the main leaders of the formation publicized the consultation with messages calling for unity. 92.29% of those registered have endorsed the management to make the decision on the agreement.

Shortly after the result was known and the executive meeting, Belarra has made a brief statement in which he has advanced that the Podemos firm will be in that agreement, but has shown his willingness to reach a “fair” pact. “And we do not accept any veto,” he said. Belarra has affirmed that from Sumar they have raised during the negotiations that the presence of the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, in the future coalition is an “obstacle to unity”. “We have been asked once again to sacrifice our main political asset,” said Belarra, who has insisted on rejecting the vetoes.

In Podemos they see a problem with this offer because they consider that if the result of the elections is worse than that of four years ago they could even be left without representation. Unidas Podemos won a seat in 2019 both in Navarra, as well as in Gipuzkoa, Cádiz, Murcia and Las Palmas. In those constituencies, in those elections, the heads of the list also went for the party that Belarra now leads.

The change comes in the rest of the constituencies in which the confederal group obtained better results in those elections. In Madrid, where four years ago they obtained four starting positions, now they will have only one, five of the seven (counting the sum of UP and Más País) that translated into seven seats. In addition, the position that Sumar offers to Podemos is number five. Yolanda Díaz will go ahead as head of the list and surely a ‘number two’ that she chooses. In the rest they have to fit the claims of Más Madrid and Izquierda Unida.

In Barcelona, ​​the En Comú Podem coalition gave Jaume Asens the head of the list, an ambiguous profile since he is part of the leadership of Podemos but has long responded to the comuns, Ada Colau’s party. They also obtained the three for this constituency. Now, Sumar offers Podemos the fourth place on the lists.

The offer that Sumar makes to Podemos does not give them, for example, any starting position in the Valencian Community. After the agreement reached with Compromís, Yolanda Díaz’s team reserves the first place for Alicante to place there an independent linked to Sumar and the head of the Castellón list for a consensus candidate between the different forces of the coalition. The first place for Valencia will go to the coalition led by Joan Baldoví, which also takes second place in the three constituencies. Compromís obtained a deputy for Valencia in 2019 and Unidas Podemos obtained four: two in Valencia, one in Alicante and one in Castellón.

Those from Belarra are also left without the two starting positions they had in 2019 in Seville and the Balearic Islands. Nor will anyone from the party repeat as head of the list in Asturias, Bizkaia or Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where the starting position is surely reserved for Alberto Rodríguez’s Drago Project.

All the information about the agreements that Sumar is reaching this Friday, in the following links:




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