In full negotiation with Podemos to minimize rival lists in other autonomies, the Comuns have the “total involvement” of the leader of Sumar
“In 2019 it was a race to come back. Now, we started on pole.” It is the diagnosis that they make in the engine room of the Comuns, who work at full capacity and with high doses of optimism so that Ada Colau revalidate the mayoralty. The polarization that allows them to Xavier Trias is the Junts candidate, they admit, it has benefited them in a struggle that is vital for the space as a whole. Without Barcelona, his project would seriously suffer. And, due to the domino effect, Yolanda Díaz would also suffer a significant loss if her mainstay weakens. That is why the Vice President of the Government and leader of Sumar, who strategically select who gets wet in the municipal and regional ones depending on how the negotiation with Podemos concludes in each enclave, will be fully involved in the Colau campaign.
The Commons already have closed in your schedule that Díaz participate in events both during the previous weeks and when the campaign officially starts on May 28. The forecast is that he will not only take the stage at rallies of the hard-fought battle for Barcelona, but also in other cities such as Montcada and Reixacone of the 16 mayoralties that, with Laura Fields in front, the Comuns will roll up their sleeves to maintain. “His involvement will be total,” say management sources.
Unlike with Podemos, Díaz is from a pinion with the Commons. Although the talks with the purples are prospering and tensions have been reduced to agree on the formula to attend the general elections, something that will accelerate when Díaz officially announce that she is willing to be the candidate, if the leader of Sumar is clear about one thing, it is that she does not want to wear herself out prematurely campaigning in autonomies or cities in which it has not been possible for the space to compete on a single list. This is what happens, for example, in Madrid, where More Madrid will return to compete with we can
But in Catalonia the situation is different because the relationship of the Comuns with Podem is pacified. Colau y Díaz for months now they linked their destinies under the premise that the candidacy of the generals will rise and aspire to better results as long as the mayoralty of the Catalan capital continues to be its jewel in the crown. In turn, Colau has expressed unconditional support for Díaz, of whom he has said that “nobody in the Government“ has never helped Barcelona as much as she has. A praise that marks a differential fact with respect to other leaders of Podemos, starting with the former leader Pablo Iglesias.
Regardless of the support that having Díaz in the campaign means, Barcelona en Comú is facing municipal elections with much more favorable polls than when he was mayor of ERC, Ernest Maragallwho led them. The irruption of Trias, they report, allows them to exhibit Colau as the leader antagonistic to everything that the Junts candidate represents and, in turn, project that the campaign is about two”, a framework that especially hurts the Republicans, whom the polls currently place away from the podium. Instead, the PSC of Jaume Collboni maintains expectations taking advantage of the good moment of Salvador Illa.
But it is that even in the case of not being the most voted and finishing second, the Comuns see room for maneuver to retain the mayoralty because they believe that they have much more open options for agreements than in the past elections. have ruled the entire mandate with the PSCbut ERC has been, despite being in opposition, a stable support in the last four years. In addition, in the Parliament the blocks have been broken with the budget agreement between the Government, the PSC and the Comuns and Colau sees the tripartite that he could not forge in 2019 as more feasible now than then.
Beyond Barcelona, En Comú Podem finalizes the presentation of between 180 and 200 applications. They have focused efforts, especially, on avoid concurring in conflicting lists as happened to them in past municipal elections, when the disunity took its toll and they were left without representation in cities like Terrassa, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Manresa or Sabadell, where the space was presented divided into up to four different lists. In this matter, the Comuns go a few steps ahead que Sumar y Podemos at the expense of the law of trial and error.
