Izquierda Unida (IU) has been advocating for months the construction of a new front that would integrate all the parties of the so-called residual alternative to the PSOE, or at least, a front configured differently than what happened in 23-J. “One has to do it … “Learn from past experiences not to put personal reference first without a political process,” the party’s federal coordinator, Antonio Mailo, asked on Tuesday, while issuing a warning to navigators: “If one links a political process too much to a reference, when that reference is weakened – which is very corrosive in these political times – the process is weakened.” The Andalusian politician believes that this is something that has already been tried with the Unidas Podemos party and that now, as he admits, it is “being tried” with Somar, referring, in a veiled way, to the current leader of the coalition, Yolanda Díaz. For this reason, asks the IU leader, who starred in the latest media breakfast of the Nueva Economía Forum, held in Seville: “We have to learn from mistakes to do it well.”
Having just passed the midpoint of an increasingly pre-election flavored legislature – if possible – which is on its way to becoming the first without budgets in the history of democracy, the IU believes, as already stated in its latest political report, that there is no time to lose and is appealing to Podemos to accelerate a left-wing unionist candidacy in the face of the next general election, scheduled for 2027, barring maximum surprise. They say that this will be the only thing possible to achieve at the next date with the ballot boxes. “I am optimistic,” admitted Maillot, who defended that at the moment there is a political unity of all organizations from the left to the left of the PSOE “because there is a social unity,” and believes that if a political unity occurs, “there is no organization that can dare to challenge the electoral unity.”
“On this basis, everything is secondary,” says IU’s federal coordinator. For example, the controversies surrounding the brand name Sumar, which IU is betting on getting rid of. “When one aims to be a channel of social ambition, one must roll up one’s sleeves to govern in all spheres. Hence we agree and I don’t care what name he uses. The party leader explained: “We must find a name that will guide the new political cycle, but it is not the essential element, despite its importance to the international federation.”
Of particular interest in this second half of the legislature is the election of the coalition’s future election candidate, who, as Milo’s supporters advocate, will have to undergo a common primary throughout the space. It was Podemos in April that launched precisely this discussion with the launch of the candidacy of the former Minister of Equality, Irene Montero. On the contrary, Yolanda Díaz has chosen to keep a low profile during all these months and, in fact, to this day, continues without revealing whether she aspires to revalidate her mandate at the head of the space since she has already stepped down from the organic leadership of the Movimiento Somar party, the party that until June 2024 served as the umbrella coalition.
“From our point of view, (Diaz’s candidacy) is not closed yet. “Yolanda hasn’t said anything yet,” said the outspoken Milo, who left the door open Tuesday to even run for president. “I didn’t jump into politics again to be a candidate for anything, that wasn’t my goal. But life takes you where you never thought you would at first. What’s more, sometimes, the place you least expected to be is where life takes you. You shouldn’t rule anything out, but you should have a feeling like the one I have: to be useful where you can do the most good for the common good. “This will be the criterion I will set when making the decision,” he added.
“I didn’t jump into politics again to be a candidate for anything, but life takes you where you never expect it to be. “Nothing should be ruled out,” Milo says.
The person who closed the door this weekend on the possibility of assuming the position that Somar represents today is Pablo Postenduy, Minister of Social Rights, Consumerism and Agenda 2030. “I am very grateful to everyone who believes that I will be a good candidate, but I will not be a candidate. He answered in an interview on the Cadena Ser program “Hora 25” after being asked about the possibility of him being Soumare’s next candidate for prime minister: “Everyone knows that I will not be.”
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