Díaz is running for president with the support of the entire left except for Belarra

Palm Sunday entered Jerusalem below the palm timber.

Palm Sunday entered Jerusalem below the palm timber. The vice-president Yolanda Díaz introduced yesterday that she is going to run for the presidency of the central authorities with the specific assist of all of the leftists of the so-called "area of change", except for the Podemos management. The coaching government determined to boycott the act of what till yesterday was, in line with her phrases, "our candidate", as a result of she has not agreed to a earlier bilateral settlement on the lists.

"I'll take a step ahead: I need to be the primary president of my nation, the primary president of Spain", introduced Yolanda Díaz on the finish of her speech. Minutes earlier he had given hints in regards to the tone of a feminist candidacy and emancipated from tutors. Quoting Rosalía de Castro, he mentioned: "We do not belong to anybody. Girls don't belong to anybody. And I, as a girl, do not belong to anybody both. We've to proclaim it as a result of plainly at present we nonetheless have to hold a preposition 'of' connected to our title that marks what our adhesions are and what our money owed are". The allusion appeared to have an apparent recipient, the ex-leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, who in his communicative hyperexercise has been giving indications of what to do and the way for months. "We're fed up with tutelage. Very fed up", he mentioned.

Díaz spoke in entrance of greater than half a thousand folks in a packed Magariños sports activities complicated, the place a number of thousand folks (about 3,000) couldn't get in, who queued all morning, some from early hours, for the inn lengthy from Sumar. The group arrange a playground on the Ramiro de Maeztu faculty, a neighbor of Magariños, the place a part of the capability that might not entry the inside of the sports activities heart adopted the occasion on screens.

Díaz introduced herself surrounded by your complete confederal area of Unides Podem and its confluences with the only real exception of the state government of Podem - a number of deputies of the parliamentary group, in addition to many candidates of the purple social gathering within the municipal and regional elections , they did strategy the sports activities heart - and different formations that in 2015 participated in the identical political area, resembling Compromís and Més País.

Díaz didn't expressly allude to the absence of Podemos, though he reiterated that "Sumar is an open home to all those that need to remodel our nation and I'm satisfied that we'll proceed so as to add". And he added that "we aren't right here to face one another or to occupy an electoral area, however to win a rustic".

The mayor of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, the coordinator of IU, Alberto Garzón, the chief of Més País, Íñigo Errejón, the candidate of Més Madrid, Mónica García, the mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó, the overall secretary of the PCE , Enrique Santiago, have been a number of the politicians who supported Díaz. Regardless of the boycott of the Podemos government, the Sumar occasion was attended by regional leaders, candidates and deputies resembling Antón Gómez-Reyno, Txema Guijarro, Nacho Escartín and Daniel Ripa, amongst others. The Extremadura coordinator of the coaching, Irene de Miguel, expressed on Twitter what she feels about an necessary sector of Podemos: "As we speak the whole lot begins with Sumar" and that even supposing "I could not be there at present, I am positive there might be others seasons to have the ability to meet and proceed to rework this nation along with braveness".

The occasion was a hit for Díaz and the political forces that assist the Sumar area, with a central function of the communes and IU, and with Extra Madrid turning into seen close to the elections in Might. To all of them, with first and final names, Díaz devoted particular person thanks in his speech, through which he averted referring to the absence of the Podemos excessive command.

The specter of two candidacies for the generals is extra doubtless since yesterday, in the identical method that, with the planting, plainly the pretension of Podemos to occupy a hegemonic place in a standard area of the left is dissipated. The Might elections might be decisive for the pacts to articulate a single platform, as a result of they may reveal the potential that every one has. Yesterday was Palm Sunday, hosannas and acclamations. However at present is Monday. As we speak the Captive is in procession.