Podemos insists on the "right to decide" and Sumar confirms that it will include in its program a consultation on "a new fit for Catalonia in Spain"

Yolanda Díaz's claim that Sumar would not be trapped by the always thorny issue of the self-determination referendum in Catalonia has ended up, one month before the general elections, on the list of good intentions that cannot be fulfilled.

The foundations of the program for 23-J drawn up by the political platform led by the second vice president and Minister of Labor of the Government have so far avoided the controversy over a sovereignist consultation as a way to resolve the institutional conflict aggravated during the process. The idea was to drive away, as far as possible, the headaches that the so-called right to decide caused Podemos in its first years of life, which coincided with the peak of the Catalan independence process.

The main lines with which Sumar works stop at more ethereal concepts, such as the “recognition” of the “national plurality” of Spain and a “new territorial contract” with a “federal character”. But it was a matter of days before the proposal that the Catalans vote on their political future beyond the electoral appointments returned like a boomerang. It was because En Comú Podem, Sumar's benchmark in Catalonia, has always defended the suitability of a referendum agreed between the regional and state authorities. And, as confirmed yesterday by his head of the list in Barcelona, Aina Vidal, he will do it again in the face of next month's elections.

The declaration of intent of the commons has forced Sumar to position itself. His campaign spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, has assured today that the new unifying party of the left is “comfortable” with the proposal that Catalonia can “ratify” at the polls “an agreement that arises from the dialogue table” between the Government and the Generalitat, a negotiating forum whose survival will depend on the result of the elections on July 23.

The also MEP for the commons has wanted to settle any hint of friction between the two political spaces regarding an issue that has always aroused controversy within the left: “There will be a shared proposal that will revolve around the idea that an agreement can be ratified in Catalonia “.

In an interview on Radio Nacional de España, Urtasun explained that En Comú Podem “will have its own proposal” on the vote for “a new fit for Catalonia in Spain” and that, later, the coalition promoted by Díaz “will collect it in its electoral program”.

Sumar's spokesman for the general elections has insisted that the idea is not new, since the commons have been proposing it for years, “with the long-term perspective of the referendum”. For this reason, he pointed out: “For the legislature and in the short term, the ratification proposal is something that Sumar is comfortable with and that we are going to defend.”

Colau claims its autonomy

In parallel, the former mayoress of Barcelona and leader of the commons, Ada Colau, has vindicated this morning the autonomy of her training within the new platform, which is why she has her “own program for Catalonia”. “It is one thing to be integrated and the other is that we continue to be the common ones,” he added in an interview on TV3.

In this sense, Colau has maintained that En Comú Podem “has always defended the same thing”, in relation to the party's position regarding the “right to decide”, the application of article 155 of the Constitution, the defense of pardons for leaders of the process or the reform of the Penal Code.

Belarra: Podemos “always” has defended “the right to decide”

Today he also wanted to mark his own profile Podemos. Its general secretary, Ione Belarra, has indicated that the purple formation “always” has supported “the right to decide” and “the recognition of the plurinationality” of Spain.

During an act in Hernani (Guipúzcoa), the Minister for Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda insisted that they will continue to defend their thesis in favor of a referendum: “We may have many defects, but we are where we have always been, regardless of the political cost “.