Yolanda Díaz gets fully involved in the campaign and leaves her balance aside by sharing an act with the Podemos candidates in Madrid

Yolanda Díaz had prepared a carefully designed campaign calendar to maintain the complex lacework between all the parties that support her on her Sumar platform. But in the first pre-campaign act in which he participated, held this Wednesday in the Madrid town of Alcorcón, those balances were blown up, and Díaz shared a walk, photographs and even a small improvised rally -between shouts of “unity” on the part of of the supporters – with the candidates of Unidas Podemos for the City Council and the Community of Madrid, Roberto Sotomayor and Alejandra Jacinto, respectively.

After many days of secrecy, the vice president revealed her campaign calendar last Friday, in which no act was planned, neither in the company of Jacinto nor with the presence of the candidate for Más Madrid, Mónica García, for the regional elections. In this way, Díaz wanted to prevent the tensions that have arisen in recent weeks with Podemos from worsening due to the gestures of rapprochement that Díaz has had with García to the detriment of Jacinto, the corollary of which occurred as a result of the vice president insinuating in the program Lo de Évole (La Sexta) who will vote for Más Madrid in the regional elections on May 28.

For this reason, what was initially scheduled was that this Wednesday, in his first pre-campaign act, Díaz would take a walk through Alcorcón only with Jesús Santos, current deputy mayor and candidate for Ganar Alcorcón, the coalition of Podemos and IU in the city, where the polls predict a great result for purple. But, late on Monday, it was confirmed that both Alejandra Jacinto and the United Podemos candidate for Madrid City Council, Roberto Sotomayor, would join this act.. In the pre-campaign, there is no balancing act for the heads of the list.

Santos, in fact, only had the vice president exclusively at the beginning of the act, when the script planned from the beginning was followed and both the candidate for Ganar Alcorcón and Díaz made statements to the media without the intervention of their colleagues. The Sumar leader was full of praise for the deputy mayor and his “useful politics” and “without noise”, and, in fact, “Ganar Alcorcón” was the only name of a party that came from his lips, despite the fact that Santos is, in addition to being a municipal candidate, the organic leader of Podemos in the Community of Madrid. Not even on Twitter did Díaz mention the purple list heads: he only shared a photo of himself with Santos.

It was just after those first statements when Jacinto and Sotomayor joined the procession, not without some difficulty, since Díaz and Santos were escorted by several dozen supporters, neighbors, and onlookers.. It was a walk in the smell of crowds, since, in the few meters that the four leaders covered, surrounded by a cloud of cameras, they had to stop on several occasions to take photos and receive kisses and hugs from supporters, including, of course, from time to time, chants of “president, president” and “mayor, mayor” were sung.

The deputy mayor, vice-president Díaz and the candidates Jacinto and Sotomayor then headed towards a Ganar Alcorcón tent in which a brief meeting with the militants was planned.. However, in the fervor of the moment, a rally was improvised on top of a bank: another surprise that was not foreseen, although Díaz refused to intervene along with Santos and Jacinto, who did.. It was then that the cry of “unity, unity” was chanted, something paradoxical given that Más Madrid will be presented in Alcorcón on the sidelines of Ganar Alcorcón and that, in the Community of Madrid, there will be no coalition agreement between all the forces to the left of the PSOE.

However, Díaz avoided referring even in passing to all the tensions that exist in his political space.. This Wednesday it was time to start the pre-campaign, and nothing more. “Mobilize, workers and workers, people of culture, pensioners, women, young people: mobilize, because without a doubt, the only government program that the PP has is to repeal the labor reform that has given stability today to young people and to many people, it is ending the rise in the minimum wage, it is privatizing public pensions and, ultimately, making people's lives worse”, asked the leader of Sumar. Legally, until Friday you will not be able to ask for the vote. But in practice, the campaign has already begun.