Yolanda Díaz, to Podemos: "If you ask for clean cake unity, you depress the electorate and then it doesn't matter if you shake hands"

When Yolanda Díaz talks about Pablo Iglesias and the problems Podemos and Sumar have in understanding each other, she changes her face, erases her smile and declares herself “concerned”. As he says that “the people” are. “If you ask your electorate for unity, you are depressing them. And then it doesn't matter if you shake hands,” he warned last night in a clear message of censorship of the pressure strategy followed by the purple ones.

His interview on the program Lo de Évole, on LaSexta, generated between expectation and nerves in the leadership of the purple party. They had reasons to be like this because the leader of Sumar was dispatched forcefully on occasions about the pulse that is being experienced and the tensions. She declared her “sadness” over the situation, but reaffirmed her willingness to seek an agreement and talk. He also blamed Podemos for. “You reach agreements when you want to reach agreements. If one doesn't want to, two don't agree,” he said.

Díaz dismantled the argument put forward by Podemos for not attending the presentation of his candidacy for the general elections in Magariños: the absence of a commitment to hold “open primaries”. “Is not true. There will be primaries with citizen participation,” he replied.. “Do you think that if we sign a document that says open primaries they are inside Sumar? I said no.”

She was willing to “negotiate everything”, although she stressed that she knows “what the political parties want”. And he detailed it: “How much money, how many lists, how many released and little program”. “It's sad,” he lamented.

He stressed that he “does not want” the conflict to end with two separate lists in the generals -one from Sumar and another from Podemos-, but he hinted that the problem is in the attitude of the purple ones. “If one puts the interests of the country above all else, it is (in the agreement). And there is no possible excuse”. Thus, he revealed his discomfort with Podemos for not having gone to his act. “I am not able to understand it”. In addition, he pointed out that he knows of people who wanted to go and could not because of Belarra's veto.

She claims not to have “any fight with anyone”, although she showed that the relationship with Pablo Iglesias is very deteriorated. He had many messages for him. As he has not been able to leave the control of Podemos, something he already suspected because he knows him “quite well”. He stated in this regard that he maintains a “very sharpened” leadership within the party. “He is arch-present”, although “formally he is not in the organs”. “You have to let people fly. He should let everyone do more,” he sentenced. He also said he “wants to think that he didn’t” believe he was going to “tutelage” her.

Díaz feels alluded to by the “insults” that Iglesias has let loose on her. She has even conveyed this to him. “I don’t insult anyone ever.”

Díaz said. The leader of Sumar described that the former secretary general of Podemos has become a “curmudgeon” and a person who “is quite grumpy” and “angry all the time”. And that this is what he told her once they met in Barcelona at an event.. “I am a happy person,” he said, “politics is not done negatively.”

On the other hand, Díaz left the audience's interpretation up in the air if he will vote for Más Madrid and not for Unidas Podemos in the regional and municipal elections in May. Despite the insistence on the questions about whether she would support Mónica García, she did not want to clarify it. “Today I represent Sumar”.

Beyond all of the above, the interview left many headlines on various topics. He pointed out macho behavior by Iglesias and also by Pedro Sánchez. “Of course the president is sexist” just like almost everyone is.

The leader of Sumar recounted again how the “finger of Iglesias” fit in to name her his successor at the head of the second Vice Presidency and as a future candidate without her knowing it. He found out, like all of Spain, from a video he posted on his own. “I got very angry”, it was a “disrespect” to United We Can and her. This is how Díaz expressed it in person to Iglesias a few hours later, when he invited him to eat “a salad” and he acknowledged that he had “screwed up his life.”.

“He knew perfectly well that she was very angry and that what she did was not correct,” he remarked.. Díaz had many doubts about what to do. He described it as a “brutal dilemma” between accepting, as he did, or leaving the government at that moment.

On Alberto Núñez Feijóo he pointed out that he was a “great adversary” and said that if the right ends up governing it will be because on the left they have done “something wrong”. “If we lose it is because we do it wrong and the adversary does it better,” he said, and it will not be the fault of the voters. That yes, he stressed that a government of PP and Vox would be a “drama.”

Díaz left Fernando Grande-Marlaska in the firing line when he showed that under his criteria he should have resigned for the tragedy of Melilla in which many immigrants died. “In politics one has to assume responsibilities”; “you can’t play with human rights.”