The birth of Podemos in 2014 moved all the trees of Spanish politics, embedded since the eighties in bipartisanship, nationalist footholds and a left of the PSOE of variable volume. There was excitement, fear, and anticipation. Less than seven years later, the peripheral left is not resigned to the fact that the illusion of change has ended and the decline continues. As Pablo Iglesias moved away, Yolanda Díaz emerged naturally. The second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor —without affiliation to Podemos or to Izquierda Unida, only with a PCE card, but the highest representative of that political space in the Executive— has returned the desire to start over with new bases and look more wide with which Podemos began a seven-year ago.
Yesterday in Valencia, at the Olympia theater, the beginning of a possible political project that competes with the PSOE was marked, although only together they will be able to govern. The spirit of Olympia needs to take shape to be the reality that was invoked yesterday by five women with cheerful and hopeful tones for wide sectors of society. Along with Díaz, were the host, Mónica Oltra, vice president of the Generalitat Valenciana; the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau; Mónica García, spokesperson for Más Madrid, the first force on the left in the regional Assembly after beating the PSOE in the last elections, and Fátima Hamed, of the Movement for the Dignity of Ceuta, who daily fights dialectical battles with Vox in the Parliament of the autonomous city.
Citizens who are curious, interested or willing to see this movement translate into an electoral project will still have to wait to see it confirmed in the face of the many obstacles it must overcome. The ethereal responses of Díaz and his four traveling companions about how and with whom they will do it are not poses. But it is feasible, according to the sociologist and political scientist José Pablo Ferrándiz, from Elemental Research: “Yolanda Díaz’s project, or the one that is intuited, meets at least three basic requirements for there to be optimism about its future: it is transversal, it generates illusion and does not mobilize against him ”. The absence in the act of the Secretary General of Podemos, Ione Belarra, and the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, clearly shows that the new project does not spring from the Churches party, although this is essential. As much as Diaz for them. The mutual need explains the forced smile of all when downplaying the exclusions in the Olympia act. Everything except that it seems like an act of Podemos. Left and unity, Ferrándiz recalls, they do not usually marry, but only with unity, without the PSOE, Díaz will say yes.
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