The purples blame IU for the exclusion and will resort to it after tough negotiations that have left the coalition for Andalusia wounded
The Andalusian Electoral Board agreed this Saturday to exclude Podemos from the left-wing coalition that will stand in the regional elections on June 19. The auditing body considered that the purple formation presented after the deadline its adhesion to the alliance that under the name For Andalusia already brought together Izquierda Unida, Más País, Equo and the Andalusian People’s Initiative
The Podemos signatures, according to the Electoral Board, arrived at 0:14 and 1:07 on Saturday and the deadline expired at 24:00 on Friday. The decision, however, is not final because an appeal can be filed with the Central Electoral Board within 24 hours of notification.
The exclusion was seen to come because the norm is restrictive with the deadlines, although from Podemos they said that it was a “remediable” administrative problem. Once the decision of the supervisory body was known, the purples blamed IU because it was the formation that the coalition for Andalusia should register.
In the event that the Central Electoral Board also rules against it, Podemos has two options: join the coalition without its brand appearing and with its candidates with the surname of independents, or stand alone in the June 19 elections.
The mess that is now opening up has a lot to do with the purple party’s determination to drag out the negotiation until the last minute. A goal they achieved because the agreement was reached at 11:57 p.m., three minutes before the deadline.
In the eight months that they have been negotiating, Podemos and Izquierda Unida have maintained a stark struggle for power within the coalition. The purples yielded reluctantly and at the last minute that the candidate for the Junta de Andalucía was Inmaculada Nieto, IU leader and spokesman in the Andalusian Parliament. Podemos’s bet was the deputy for Cádiz and civil guard Juan Antonio Delgado. Izquierda Unida is, without a doubt, the most powerful formation in the coalition thanks to its firm presence in Andalusia and the number of institutional positions it holds. Podemos, on the other hand, after the succession of crises and purges that it has suffered, has been very weakened.
persian market
Once the IU candidate was accepted, the discussion focused on the provincial head of the list and other logistical issues. The negotiation became a Persian market in which ideological or programmatic issues took a scandalous second place before the fight for names, positions on the lists, the number of advisers or the distribution of future subsidies.
But haste is a bad adviser and in the registry before the Electoral Board of the coalition the signature of Podemos, and of another smaller force, Alianza Verde, was missing. In such a way that the registered For Andalusia coalition only carried the rubric of United Left, More Country, Equo and Andalusian People’s Initiative, which is what has been accepted.
In the tug of war of the negotiations for the distribution of power, Podemos took over the head of the list in Cádiz, Granada, Córdoba and Huelva; IU will lead those of Malaga, Jaén and Almería; and More Country, that of Seville. Now everything is up in the air.
If the pact in Andalusia had to be a pilot test for the platform promoted by Yolanda Díaz, the result left much to be desired. The vice president herself, after an initial estrangement, became involved with a firm support for Inmaculada Nieto, with whom she walked through the Seville Fair on Friday with obvious gestures of complicity. After her, she left her right-hand man, Josep María Vendrell, in the last phase of the negotiation.
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