Podemos has spent five days trying to bend Yolanda Díaz's arm so that she integrates her 'number two', Irene Montero, in the lists for the general elections of 23-J. The purple party, which has eight starting positions in the candidacy for Congress, has called the agreement signed with Sumar “humiliating”, in the words of its former general secretary, Pablo Iglesias, due to the exclusion of Montero. Ione Belarra, current general secretary, has come to assure in writing before her militants that they signed “without agreement” and before the “threat” of staying out of the coalition. What they have not detailed is what they will receive in economic terms if they remain within.

Podemos will be made with 23% of the total ordinary subsidy granted by the Ministry of the Interior, sources familiar with the conversations assure El Confidencial. It is practically the same as the Comunes (12%), Más Madrid (6.5%) and Compromís (5%).. IU, the second formation most benefited by the distribution, will achieve 19% of the total resources, which the Interior injects directly into the party accounts.

Only in the first quarter of this year, the Interior allocated close to 13 million euros to these items, which are paid month by month to the formations that have representation in the Congress of Deputies throughout the legislature. Podemos will see a significant hole in their accounts, given the debacle of 28-M and the considerable increase in parties to nurture -the confluence is made up of fifteen forces-, but it will be the formation that receives the most resources.

The United We Can coalition obtained 1.5 million in the first three months of the year, of which almost 66% went to the coffers of the purples, 984,000 euros. IU, which has endured the pull of the last elections much better than the purple ones, then kept 21% of the resources, a total of 316,000 euros. For their part, the Commons received between January and March 208,000 euros, 13.8%.

If the results of the Unidas Podemos coalition were repeated in 2019, something improbable according to the surveys, which point to a much more modest result, Podemos would receive around 345,000 euros, Izquierda Unida around 285,000 and the Comunes around 180,000 euros.. More Madrid, according to the conditions of the pact, would be made with 6.5% of the subsidies, 97,500 euros. And this amount, to be distributed among three actors in its day, must now supply a dozen forces, in addition to the second vice president's party.

The distribution attributes to Verdes Equo 1% of the total, to which would be added 30,000 euros per year; 20,000 euros a year for Íñigo Errejón's Más País; 42,000 euros a month per Mallorca; 30,000 euros to Drago, Alberto Rodríguez's party, and another 30,000 euros to Chunta Aragonesista.

This does not include other subsidies, such as those intended to compensate the investment in the campaign. The pact with Podemos and the rest of the forces includes a clause that would make them lose these benefits in the event of leaving the group in Congress, to go to the mixed group or to join another parliamentary group. The minutes are personal, so that the deputies themselves decide whether to leave the group -Unidas Podemos has experienced it firsthand with the parliamentarian Meri Pita-, but in that case they would lose a considerable amount of income. And the party accounts will already have to face a significant hole, still to be quantified after the loss of institutional representation experienced on 28-M.

While the “instrumental party” led by Díaz continues with the trickle of transfer announcements (the last one was purple MEP María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop, coordinator of the Sumar program), the purples continue to demand Montero's entry into lists, although this Tuesday have lowered the level and frequency of their demands in public, nearly stifling them.

On Saturday, two days before the deadline to register the candidacies, they will meet the State Citizen Council, the highest management body between congresses, which they have not convened since before the last shipwreck at the polls. Placing the Minister of Equality, taking into account that the negotiation with the rest of the forces was closed on Friday, it would be viable displacing one of the deputies of the formation, but they do not have many other options. From Sumar they have already slammed this possibility: the agreement is sealed.