Wednesday, March 27

The “republican horizon” of Podemos shows another gap with Yolanda Díaz


Pedro Sánchez, Felipe VI and Yolanda Díaz, in December during the inauguration of the AVE to Galicia. / ef

The vice president has tempered the debate on the form of State by arguing that “now is not the time” to call a referendum

In 2014, when she was barely recognized in Galicia as the leader of Esquerda Unida and a regional parliamentarian, Yolanda Díaz exuded republicanism from her pores. Her Twitter account still has some evidence. She the same she hung a photograph in a demonstration with the tricolor flag next to her daughter Carmela who shared news in which IU unashamedly branded the Monarchy as “corrupt” and demanded a referendum. Her position was summed up with a phrase from the writer Manuel Rivas: “The republic is the natural ecosystem.”

Eight years later, no one doubts that this is still his preferred form of state, but he certainly does not make such a show of it. You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times she has spoken about it since she was Vice President of the Government. A low profile in a nuclear issue for the Spanish left that she finished burying in February when she assumed the pragmatic theses: “Now is not the time to hold a referendum. History walks alone and the doors will open, but this is not the central issue».

Díaz does not renounce the fact that citizens can one day choose between two ballots, although not in the short or medium term. A cooling of the debate that contrasts with the official position of Podemos. In his last months at the head of the party, Pablo Iglesias set as a “fundamental political task” for the coming times to move towards a “republican horizon”. The former Secretary General diagnosed that “the historical moment of crisis” of the Royal House due to the scandals of Juan Carlos I should be taken advantage of and have “courage” to accelerate a change in the form of State.

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The 91st anniversary of the proclamation of the Second Republic serves this Thursday to represent the change of scenery. On the first April 14 with Iglesias out of active politics, the purple space no longer has the approval of its leader for the Republican agenda. At an organic level, the three parties that make it up –Podemos, IU and Alianza Verde–, as well as their different confluences at the regional level, do consider this issue among their political objectives, but their main reference in the coalition government, and the one that a priori it will be your candidate in the general elections, you do not want to open that melon.

The differences in this regard show another gap in the construction of the political project with which it is intended to relaunch the space to the left of the PSOE. In some sectors of Podemos it is understood that Díaz has tempered this debate to “reinforce his presidential character” and thus approach the socialist voter who, although he is a Republican by conviction, does not see this issue as a concern. However, in those same circles they frown on the possibility that this could be interpreted as an «acquiescence» of the classical left regarding the Monarchy.


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