Two days after the end of the campaign and without nuances, Vice President Yolanda Díaz has fully entered the contest in the Valencian Community to support the candidacy of Unides Podem, whose maintenance in the Cortes is key to revalidating the coalition government with the PSOE and Compromís, according to the latest polls. “The game is played here”, the leader of Sumar has emphasized in an explicit recognition of the importance of the battle in the community and the national reading of it. Before some 800 people, in full truce granted by the rain this afternoon in Alicante, the head of Labor has asked to “concentrate” the vote on Vice President Héctor Illueca, whom she has defined as “the guarantee” to form an Executive “of progress ” in the community.
“I ask you not to stop, to mobilize”, called Díaz, who has put at the head of the list, the former director of the Labor Inspection in his ministry as an example of “useful politics”. “Together with Ada Colau [alcaldesa de Barcelona] He is the person who has decided that housing is a fundamental right in our country”, he praised the plans developed in this area in the community.
The vice president has asked for the vote for Illueca in order to “democratically defeat the PP.” “Her proposal of hers consists of repealing all the good that you have done,” Díaz warned towards the end of his speech. “These elections, yes [bien] they are useful throughout the country, they are settled here, in Valencia. You have a great, enormous responsibility. The game is played here ”, the vice president reiterated, raising her tone. “I call for the concentration of the vote (…) If we do not reach the objective, they will win. (…) that vote is called Unides Podem and is called Héctor Illueca ”, she has underlined without half measures.
The coalition competes directly with the list headed by the deputy Joan Baldoví, to whom months ago the vice president also showed her support in some statements that made Podemos feel very bad. This afternoon was probably the act that has aroused the most interest in the Sumar leader’s tour in these elections, marked by the complex balances in the design of her campaign. Although Díaz is the head of United We Can in the coalition government, the project that she is preparing for the general elections aims to bring together other parties with which the coalition competes directly this 28-M. Aware of the complexity of her role, the vice president will also be in Valencia this Thursday at an event organized by civil society —the Ciutat-Port Commission— to find out about the problems of the port expansion project and in which she will be photographed, three days before the elections, with the candidate for reelection to mayor, Joan Ribó (Compromís).
In his speech this Wednesday, Illueca has promised to implement the state housing law in the community against a PP “that has already said that it is not going to apply it.” The candidate has also called for mobilization in recent days: “They are essential, grit your teeth, hold hands, we will move forward together.”
The support for the vice president comes in the final stretch of the campaign, at a vital moment for the survival of Podemos in the Cortes and the revalidation of the Botànic pact between the PSOE, Compromís and UP. According to the polls, the entry of the candidacy led by Illueca is essential to sustain a sufficient majority of the left and not cede the regional government to PP and Vox. Sounding 40dB. for EL PAÍS and Cadena SER published last Monday grants 31.7% of the votes to the Popular Party, while the PSOE would obtain 25.6% and Compromís 17.4%. The result of the coalition between Podem and Esquerra Unida would therefore decide the result. The study grants him 5.2% of the votes, only two tenths above the minimum necessary to obtain representation.
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In the 2019 elections, UP achieved 7.97% of the votes and eight deputies. Although in this case the result may be downward, the success or failure of the list headed by Ione Belarra’s party in the community will be measured by its ability to continue forming a government. Different sources acknowledge that a hypothetical disappearance of Podemos from the Cortes would weaken the formation in the face of future negotiations with Sumar for the generals. A parked debate until the end of the campaign and the appointment with the polls allows us to measure the strength of each organization.
Podemos Euskadi embraces the project of the vice president: “We are going with a single ballot, a Basque left that wants to add”
The coordinator of Podemos Euskadi, Pilar Garrido, has vindicated this Wednesday the “unity” and a project of “broad vision” during a campaign event with Yolanda Díaz, held first thing in the morning in San Sebastián. “This confluence comes with its homework done. The people in Euskadi asked us for unity, they asked us to walk together and we have complied. We are going with a single ballot, that of the Basque left, a transforming Basque left, which wants to add”, he embraced the UP leader and deputy in Congress in a nod to the vice president’s project.
The parliamentarian has affirmed that in her political space “diversity” is a “value”. “We not only think in an electoral key, but in a country key, we have an alternative project. We want a country with rights for all,” Garrido has slipped, assuming a good part of Díaz’s speech on her platform.
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