UP charges try to reduce the tension and call for an agreement after negotiations between Podemos and Sumar failed again

Echenique insists on a primary pact, the commons ask for discretion in contacts and Gómez-Reino highlights Díaz's potential

MADRID, 28 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Different branches of Unidas Podemos have tried to reduce the tension after a new attempt between Podemos and Sumar failed yesterday to reach a minimum pact, on the matter of the primaries, and they appeal to reach an agreement that allows the unity of the independent left to the PSOE.

The spokesman for Unidas Podemos in Congress, Pablo Echenique, has been cautious when it comes to ruling on the negotiations for a confluence between the purple formation and the platform promoted by Yolanda Díaz, hoping that there will be an agreement soon that guarantees the primaries open to "everyone", since it is what guarantees unity and is what everyone wants in that political space.

Yesterday there was a new contact between the secretary of the Podemos Organization, Lilith Verstrynge, and Díaz's chief of staff, Josep Vendrell, who verified a lack of progress to seal a consensus.

From Podemos they indicated that Díaz's team told them that for now they were declining a bilateral agreement on open primaries, a condition that the purples have put in order to be able to cover her at the launch ceremony of her candidacy this Sunday.

Meanwhile, from the platform they responded that they explained to the purple ones that there is no problem with holding this process open to the public, but they made it clear that the framework must be multilateral. In fact, they offered Podemos to sign a political declaration to close a primary agreement, but they ask the formation to agree to recognize that this pact is open and extensible to the rest of the parties (a fortnight), which cannot be ignored .

In this regard, Echenique has opined that in the end there will be unity and that Podemos, his party, is working to make it happen through a proposal for open primaries. He has also stressed that he does not know the details that mark this dialogue but it is "obvious" that the negotiations go better without publicly entering into them.

"It would be good news to reach an agreement in this regard", Echenique insisted to highlight that in the negotiations for a coalition, both in Podemos and in other parties, they focus above all on the name, the logo, the design of the electoral ballots, the lists and the distribution of resources.

The purples insist on this bilateral component of the pact with Sumar, given that it is appropriate to the weight they have within the left and does not prevent multilateralism, that is, that Díaz in turn achieves an agreement with the rest of the parties involved in a future broad left candidacy. In turn, they insist that without this minimum agreement on primaries, no one from Podemos will participate in the Díaz act on behalf of the party.

For his part, the first secretary of the Congress table and leader of En Comú Podem, Gerardo Pisarello, has insisted that the Catalan confluence of United We Can attend the Sumar event next Sunday and hopes that as many people as possible will gather , both militants of political formations and people not linked by politics.

Thus, he has argued that for the 'commons' it is a "duty" to generate a "proposal of hope and social change" around Sumar and asks all parties to negotiate, with the "greatest discretion possible", to reach an agreement agreement that guarantees a confluence that the "more plural" and unitary it is, the better it will be.

In addition, Pisarello has proclaimed that any final agreement for a joint candidacy will have to be "validated by the public", in reference to the primaries, and that the important thing is that the negotiators reach a "fair" pact.

He has also said that the important thing about all this is the launch of Sumar as an electoral proposal, which will question many people who felt far from politics by giving them reasons with a project based on "useful" and "brave" politics.

"That is the main thing at this moment. Everything that is an agreement has to take place (...) I am absolutely convinced that Yolanda Díaz is going to do everything possible so that all the plurality and diversity of the left and progressive forces in this country can be present in that proposal", he pointed out.

In turn, the deputy and representative of Galicia en Común, Antón Gómez-Reino, has appealed for the current space of United We Can to continue "walking together" and expand to other sectors, to advise that organic things be worked prudently and discretion.

The parliamentarian, who will attend the Díaz act in a personal capacity, has defended that the Sumar process puts the left in a position to "play the electoral game" to avoid a right-wing government and even ensure that the current Minister of Labor can be Chairwoman.

Therefore, he has said that as a militant of the purple formation, he believes that this is his task and he is convinced that in the coming months they will all work together, with the aim of having a "magnificent" result in the general elections.