The launch of Yolanda Díaz as a candidate for the presidency of the Government and of her Sumar platform is followed with attention and respect from La Moncloa. The reconfiguration of the political space to the left of the PSOE is an important movement, because the Socialists know that its strength will determine the possibilities of trying to repeat a coalition, of competing with the right. And in that attentive look, Pedro Sánchez sends a message to Podemos by showing his desire that “all the pieces of the puzzle fit together”. That is, that the purple formation be integrated into Díaz's project.

Sánchez had a PSOE act last Sunday in Catalonia, but in La Moncloa and in the PSOE no detail of Díaz's coming-out was lost. The formation of the government that comes out of the general elections next December goes through at least one coalition, according to all the polls. And the struggle between left and right is played in two blocks of two: PSOE and Sumar and PP and Vox. Or, at least, that is the purpose and desire of Sánchez.

The President of the Government, in an informal conversation with the journalists who are accompanying him on the European tour that has taken him to visit Cyprus, Malta and Italy, has shown respect for the internal process and the negotiations that Yolanda Díaz and Podemos can carry out, but he has left a clear message to the purples, stating that on Sunday many pieces were seen fitting into Sumar's “puzzle” and “my wish would be for all the pieces to fit.”

Podemos and Sumar failed to reach a consensus on their positions and the purples were absent from Díaz's act. The IU, the PCE, Más País, Compromís, los comunes -the formation led by Ada Colau-, Equo, the Chunta Aragonesista, Proyecto Drago… attended.. among other actors. It is the puzzle that the President of the Government sees, the integration of the left in the same political space, but to which he would like to add one more piece: Podemos.

Sánchez's vision places the purple ones as one more token, which is not the approach defended by the PSOE coalition partners. Podemos wants a one-on-one negotiation with Diaz, a political position of preeminence and relevance because, they understand, their background and political trajectory demand it. They do not see themselves as one more piece of the puzzle, but as one of the articulators of it.

Sánchez bets to give time and margin to Díaz and Sumar. Time. He does not enter to assess the statements of Pablo Iglesias in recent days and does not consider that the pulse that maintain Diaz and ministers Ione Belarra and Irene Montero can further convulse the months of coexistence that remain to the coalition. His analysis is that the Executive is going through a good moment as reflected by the unity expressed in the failed motion of censure of Vox or the approval of the pension reform.

Will Sumar steal votes from the PSOE? The President of the Government merely reminds us that he has been secretary general of the PSOE since 2015, and there he continues.