Yolanda Díaz and Ada Colau consecrate their tandem to lead the alternative left with Sumar

One more time, by Daft Punk, resounds in the Plaza Mayor in Nou Barris, an electronic music song to start dancing and that condenses in the literalness of its title Ada Colau's request for these elections: «Once again». A third, it should actually be said, because the mayoress of Barcelona aspires to her third term. The second achieved it miraculously and when he had already shed tears over his defeat at the polls. But for this new assault, she feels strengthened by having the unconditional help of Yolanda Díaz, who enters the stage of this working-class neighborhood of Barcelona at her side.

The vice president does not appear in the 28-M elections. or almost yes. Because she has assumed on a personal and political level the objective of getting Colau re-elected as if she herself were on that ballot. In practice, the two form a ticket in these local elections and anticipate the role that the two boards will later have in Sumar in the general elections as the new tandem that will lead the reconfiguration of the alternative left to the PSOE.

One more time the two together in Barcelona. Once again an exhibition of complicity and demonstration that their alliance is strategic and that it configures one of the foundations of Sumar, the project with which Díaz will break into the autumn general elections with the ambition of surpassing Podemos and of gluing the broken pieces of the alternative left.

One more time, and the ones that remain. The relationship between Díaz and Colau is so close that the leader of Sumar has placed Barcelona as her priority. Hence, he will be in Catalonia for up to four days asking for a vote for the commons. On Friday he opened the campaign in Montcada, very close to the capital, and yesterday he went out of his way for the mayoress as he had rarely done before at a rally.

His participation in the central act of Catalunya en Comú remains next Saturday and, to finish off his tour, the final push for his friend on the 26th at the closing of the campaign. Neither in the Community of Madrid nor in the Valencian Community, where the two regional elections with the most political and media weight are also being played, will it have an even similar implication.

The commons is one of the pillars of Sumar. As is UI. The first contribute the figure of Colau, who despite the wear and tear maintains a strong pull outside of Barcelona, and with her Díaz has a privileged entrance to the electorate of Catalonia. The latter offer an organization with cadres, experience and implementation in crucial places, such as Andalusia.. These two communities are two of the ones that distribute the most seats and, above all, they have raised each and every one of the leftist government majorities.

Díaz knows the relevance of these squares and verbalizes it. Yesterday he placed Catalonia as the key piece to defeat Feijóo's PP. In these elections, first, and in the general elections, later. “I trust her [Catalonia] to take a step forward and tell all of Spain that the right will not win,” he stressed.. «The right is called what it is called. Whether [Xavier] Trias is called or whatever his name is”, he concluded by implicitly alluding to the PP and expressly citing the Junts candidate, who is one of Colau's great threats on 28-M. As is also the fact that the PSC can be ahead.

It's all his fault…

Díaz wears Colau's kit in these elections. but literally. He appeared in Nou Barris with the shirt that the common people have turned into an emblem to ironize with the signaling of the mayoress in all evils. “Ada Colau is to blame for everything,” reads the slogan in which Yoko Ono's name is crossed out to write hers.

With that samarreta on, he called yesterday to “concentrate the vote” in Colau of all “progressive people”, “mothers and grandmothers” and even residents of “Galician” origin.. “Barcelona has to be born many times and for that we need Ada Colau to continue being mayor,” he said.

For his part, Colau praised Díaz for being the “best Minister of Labor in the history of democracy” and thanked him for his involvement.. In his message, he warned of his “concern” about a possible PSC pact with Junts to take over the Mayor's Office. He accused Jaume Collboni of opening that “door” and countered: “We vindicate the progressive coalition governments in Barcelona and in the State.”