Yolanda Díaz wanted to avoid a new battle on the left after the general elections, but Podemos has not given her truce. Neither its general secretary, Ione Belarra, nor its historical leader, Pablo Iglesias, who has taken revenge on RAC 1, in two different interventions on his own television and in an opinion article on CTXT, have respected the call to lay down their arms.. A good part of the rest of the forces integrated in the confluence that Díaz commands recognize the cessions that they have had to assume, as well as the injuries caused in an agonizing and accelerated process to unite the bloc.. However, they all repeat, without fissures, that now it is time to close ranks and let PP and Vox, who do not add up to govern, bleed to death with their own internal fights. “The important thing is that the extreme right does not govern”, is the slogan that they repeat in a loop.

Iglesias, who went ahead of Belarra on Sunday night, issued a severe warning in duplicate, reading his article in the press, word for word, on one of his television programs: “If the lack of an agreement between Junts and the PSOE imposes an electoral repetition, Sumar will have no excuse for not calling primaries and will not be able to veto anyone.”. That is, either Pedro Sánchez and Díaz manage to get Carles Puigdemont's party to abstain or theirs will not give up fighting for primaries that they have always demanded, which Díaz postponed while waiting for Podemos to lose steam on 28-M (as, indeed, it did) and they will demand primaries that everyone considered impossible given the tight deadlines imposed by the electoral advance.

Sumar has not even established its management bodies and the purple ones question its legitimacy to represent the 15 parties that make up. Iglesias already warned on election night that the five Podemos deputies will be under the orders of his leadership. In their ranks, they warn that these parliamentarians must enjoy autonomy, like the common ones (5) or the deputies of Más Madrid (2), and the former vice president of the Government also dropped that these parties, “which are not equal”, “and surely” will not be in the future Executive, it will be difficult for them to vote “in favor of each law” together with ERC, Bildu, PNV and BNG, without Junts voting against.

While Díaz's team politically revives Jaume Asens so that he builds bridges with Puigdemont, and assures that they will reach an agreement that allows the investiture, the purples insist that this understanding is enormously complicated.

Podemos has gone from having 23 deputies in the previous parliamentary group to having just five. In the new group there are even more deputies with PCE cards (6), the only party in which Díaz is still a member today. The role of the purples is completely blurred, and Irene Montero, banned from the lists, has no room to strike a blow while there are hopes of reediting the coalition.

Belarra and Iglesias have criticized the result obtained, and have recalled that Sumar loses more than 700,000 votes with respect to the “worst result” ever achieved by United We Can, in the last elections. The 28-M debacle, which devastated Podemos, does not enter his equation, just as it does not enter the one offered by Díaz, considering the previous results of his political space as a scale to measure his electoral performance.

The slogan is that Sumar is “a new space”, which had never been presented to the elections. This mantra coexists with the fact that Díaz has been a deputy for United We Can since 2016, and also with the call to reissue the Government, whose achievements Sumar boasts of, while insisting on selling itself as a formation without a past, debuting this 23-J. Until now, the second vice president has ignored the darts of the purple ones, and in the whole space there is discomfort due to the actions of Podemos, but they insist that today it is not time to confront allies.

That is why they try to set the pace for Sánchez, reaching the point of demanding a meeting to discuss a programmatic agreement and the distribution of ministerial portfolios of a future Government. The PSOE dilates the deadlines, and lets the right rebalance itself. In January 2016, the press conference in which Iglesias claimed various ministries was harshly criticized. Sumar has not clarified how many portfolios it aspires to control, but has raised the need to discuss the distribution just one day after the elections. In Díaz's party they even warn that they will not accept general directorates or state secretariats elevated to the formal rank of ministries, but lacking powers. It is time to turn the page as soon as possible and prevent their own allies from setting their agenda.