In partisan terms, adding a victory against the PSOE with the rectification to rescind the purchase of 15 million bullets to Israel by Interior. The news of the contract with a company in the country whose army has massacred more than 50,000 Palestinians from the outbreak of the war in Gaza in October 2023, Yolanda Diaz surprised only one day after the government announced on Tuesday an investment in defense of 10.5 billion that greatly bother the minority partner. It rained on wet. And add was planted to demand the cancellation of the agreement. But after 24 hours of crisis, offering an image at the uncoordinated times, the strategic differences within the group have become evident. “You have to talk little and work more,” the vice president left this Friday in an interview in RNE.
The change of course decreed by President Pedro Sánchez has calmed the waters and has placated the incipient internal discomfort. Nobody wants to talk about crisis and the formations focus on breastfeeding their influence on the Executive at a particularly delicate time: without a majority to approve the budgets, in a context of rearming in Europe and we can press on the left from outside.
IU had opened the door on Wednesday to a possible exit from the government that bothered the environment of Díaz, who had already demanded the cancellation of the contract. It was the head of Culture, Ernest Urtasun (until now spokesman to add) who left that same day in the afternoon to deny the possibility that his ministers were going to leave the Executive and blamed “IU internal debates”, where very different sectors coexist, which would have come to raise something like this by the parliamentary spokesman of that party, Enrique Santiago. The deputy’s words, however, were nuanced throughout the day from their own ranks, at the same time reflecting their own debate.
In Díaz’s team, which worked from the first hour in coordination with the Moncloa to find an exit to the conflict, the order was perceived as a “clumsiness”, which also put the focus on the internal crisis when the message they wanted to move was that the Ministry of Fernando Grande-Marlaska had to rectify.
Although without mentioning anyone, Yolanda Díaz made her disagree with that strategy again this Friday. “Since at dawn I had knowledge of the news, I started to work, which I think is what to do. You have to talk little and work more. Especially so that when you appear, you can speak with some peace of mind to the Spaniards,” said the second vice president.
With the decision to cancel the purchase of bullets taken, the group’s parties arrived without tensions, “relieved”, to the joint meeting publicly required by IU and in which it was finally agreed to improve the internal coordination mechanisms, according to sources known to the meeting. In the United Left Directorate, while, they defend that theirs was not a particularly “hard” position, as they have been attributed, but responds to a “prior, not overtaking” political positioning, consistent with the trajectory of the formation. From other forces of the group they also analyze that this speech must be understood internally. “They speak to their electorate and uncheck,” they think.
The ordered change in the Moncloa gives an oxygen ball to add in a particularly difficult week, with we can try to suffocate those of Díaz from outside for supporting a government that qualify “of the war” and after the approval of the security plan that accelerates the investment in defense up to 2% of the GDP by 2025, a requirement of the NATO and the European commission that Sánchez has assumed and that in the space less for amortized. The vice president took advantage of Thursday to announce that the reduction of the workday of her department will return to the Council of Ministers next Tuesday, so that her processing in Congress may begin, where the support must still be negotiated.
Since it was made public that the government would terminate the contract, ministers and high positions of the Diaz group parties were distributed throughout the different radios, televisions and acts to claim the turn before public opinion. “We concluded that the agreement that the government itself made has been ratified, and in that Izquierda Unida has been very forceful, we have always been,” said its federal coordinator, Antonio Maíllo, this Friday in TVE. “[Díaz] He was with a telephone coup with the president of the Government and with the Minister of the Interior, ”he claimed for his part in the same chain Lara Hernández, one of the two new coordinators of Movement to add. In statements in Brussels, Minister Sira Rego again claimed an audit of all interior and defense contracts with Israel. Go to the purchase of weapons ”to that country, says Silvia Ayuso.
Broad Front
Without having yet chosen a space leader to face the next electoral cycle (the vice president has not yet decided if she will attend) and with very weak democopic projections, the parties seek to claim. Given that scenario, several formations on the left replicate their barracks this weekend. We can and Sumar movement will choose Saturday and Sunday to their new executives after the assemblies of the last weeks. More Madrid celebrates two days of extraordinary regional plenary. And IU, on the other hand, plans to approve this Saturday a document that reflects the training policy of the training, with a clear mandate to forge a “Broad Front”.
In the draft of the text that will vote, the federal coordinator, the highest organ between assemblies, the Maíllo party explicitly explicit its commitment to seek the electoral unit with those formations with which they already share spaces, such as Podemos, Verdes and Movement to add. This is the case of Andalusia, where the matches have been in conversations for many months to try to reissue an agreement that this time does not arrive in discount time and airing disagreements. IU also refers to confederal forces such as Compromís, more Madrid, common, month, and “those that are not part of the coalition of government to add, but with which we can build alliances in the federations or federal level,” he says.
In any case, the document emphasizes that the agreement “if the parties want, based on the program, mutual recognition and democratic method” will be possible, that is, including primary, as Maíllo has already made publicly many times.
The text, however, is clear about the concurrence of IU to any choice: “If the rest of the organizations do not want to build alliances, or not in terms that allow us to advance in our political objectives, the United Left will guarantee, in any case, its presence in the next electoral cycle. Therefore, we will not stop working in the strengthening and visibility of the organization in terms of autonomy,” he affects.
The brief contains some message to the formations of Ione Belarra and Yolanda Díaz. “Izquierda Unida has put all its strength at the service of political initiatives that have occurred in recent years, first with Podemos, then with adding. However, Izquierda Unida has not seen that its work has had a recognition or democratic lace in those coalitions,” he says before pointing out that alliances have their “limits marked by the transformative capacity.” “An obvious is that of self -domening organizations of the left, but supporters of NATO and complacing with the war escalation in the Ukraine War,” he warns.
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