Podemos says that Díaz declines a bilateral pact on primaries and Sumar responds: they will be done, but agreed with all

Podemos maintains that the team of the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, has transmitted to them that for now they are not going to close a bilateral agreement on open primaries, as the purple ones request to be able to attend the act next Sunday where the announcement of their candidacy is expected. to the general elections.

This is how sources from the purple formation have transferred it to Europa Press, to indicate that this afternoon they have contacted Sumar again, through a telephone conversation between the secretary of the Podemos Organization, Lilith Verstrynge, and Díaz's chief of staff , Josep Vendrell.

After this conversation, they have verified that the negotiations are still aground and, according to the version of Podemos, they have been transferred from the environment of the vice president that, to this day, there is not going to be an agreement with Podemos on the issue of the primaries open.

Meanwhile, from Sumar they clarify that they have explained to the purple ones that there is no problem with holding primaries, but it must be a multilateral agreement. In fact, they have assured that they are willing to make a political declaration with Podemos to close that pact on primaries, but they ask the purples in turn to agree to recognize that this agreement will be multilateral, without forgetting that there are fifteen parties involved in a future wide confluence.

This morning, the state co-spokesman for Podemos reaffirmed his requirement that Díaz accept his proposal for open and transparent primaries to be able to cover her in the act of launching her candidacy, through a bilateral pact, and that her position is reasonable, given that both Díaz, like the rest of the parties, are in favor of carrying them out.

Fernández has asserted that his approach remains firm and guaranteeing primaries, with a census open to everyone, is "the condition of possibility" for there to be a "massive" mobilization of citizens when choosing their future candidates.

Hours before from Sumar they have assured that this weekend they were sent up to two specific proposals that include the commitment to deploy open primaries, but making it clear that there must be a multilateral agreement between all the agents involved, an extreme that according to sources from the platform the purple party does not accept at the moment.

In fact, they have stressed that since January there has been talks with all the sectors involved, about fifteen parties, and that the matter of the primaries is the focus of a good part of these conversations. However, they insisted that the framework of the reconfiguration process of the left must be "multilateral" because assuming Podemos' requirement of bilaterality can retract other formations.

Along these lines, they stressed that Díaz has publicly insisted that she defends the primaries, even shortly after being proposed as a candidate by former vice president Pablo Iglesias.

And it is that they emphasize that the multilateral approach is "relevant" to define this candidate selection process, because the open census that is established must be defined jointly and if the framework for its launch is state or regional, since there are formations that They are of a clear state character (such as Podemos and IU) while others are of a regionalist nature.

In any case, from Sumar they insist that they want, as Díaz has said, that Podemos be present at the event on Sunday and that the talks are still open, because the desire is for the purple formation to be within this broad candidacy.

IU DOES NOT SEE JUSTIFIED THE ABSENCE OF WE CAN

This afternoon, the leader of the IU and general secretary of the PCE, Enrique Santiago, has indicated that the possible absence of Podemos from the Sumar act is not justified, because there are no substantial differences between the two and that the fundamental nuance now is whether the pact should be bilateral or multilateral with the rest of the parties.

Therefore, he sees no reason for the purples not to participate in that event, especially when there is a clear consensus on the primaries and there is still a long time to iron out concerns until the general elections are called.

This morning the leader of the IU, Alberto Garzón, has indicated that he aspires to convince Podemos to accept a multilateral negotiation, within a party table, and asks to abandon the logic of "confrontations" on the left, because the "noise" it is working "against a pact" and "wearing down" the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz.

He has also indicated that the debate on the primaries is "absolutely secondary", since all the actors want this process, and that IU will attend to support Díaz "without putting any conditions".

For his part, former president Pablo Iglesias has stated that Díaz is currently "much closer politically" to Más País, the formation led by Íñigo Errejón, than to Podemos, something that is legitimate, but he believes that he must commit in writing to primaries open to clear "doubts" about its deployment.