Montero sees a coalition agreement with Sumar still possible and asks Yolanda Díaz to clarify it

MADRID, 28 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, considers that it is still possible for Podemos to reach a coalition agreement with 'Sumar', Yolanda Díaz's platform, ahead of the next general elections and has asked the second vice president to clarify this possibility .

This has been expressed in an interview on TVE, collected by Europa Press, when asked if she is clear that Podemos has to run under the umbrella of Sumar led by Yolanda Díaz in the general elections. "Unity is important, I think it is still possible to reach a coalition agreement with Sumar," said the minister, who believes that the second vice president and labor minister is the one who has to answer this question.

"That is a question that Yolanda, who is organizing her party right now, has to answer, but yes, I still believe that a coalition agreement with Sumar is possible," Montero pointed out immediately.

The head of Equality has stressed that it is possible to reach an agreement with Díaz's platform and that this has to be a coalition agreement that allows us to face the next general elections "with unity and having the capacity to govern with more force". .

"For that we are going to work," said the minister of Podemos, at the same time that she stressed that it is what "the people are demanding and what they have to allow to govern with more force" which, in her words, in the end is the goal they are pursuing.

The purple formation has already made explicit for a long time that its intention is an agreement with 'Sumar', which they define as Díaz's "party", to go in coalition but without integrating into this platform and that their condition as the main force be taken into account . A reconfiguration on the level of the left that has also raised tensions in the current confederate space, since Díaz conceives 'Sumar' as a citizen movement and in whose listening appearance the parties have a secondary role.

During the closure of the 'Uni de otoño', the former secretary general of the party Pablo Iglesias assured that Podemos and Sumar have to come together and that they will be generous with other lefts, although he warned that for this the purple formation has to be "respected", while that the party's co-founder, Juan Carlos Monedero, emphasized that the purples should be the "mothership" in a broad-front candidacy.

In recent weeks, Podemos has indicated that his will is to reach an agreement with the second vice president, but he stressed that she must "decide whether or not she wants to be" his candidate.

The party's co-spokesman, Javier Sánchez Serna, said that when Díaz finishes organizing his platform they will listen to his proposal with the priority of reaching an electoral alliance.