Inconsistencies in calling themselves Podem-Esquerra Unida or Unides Podem, since the autonomous agreement can be reflected in the four major cities of the Community of Valencia, where more than 100,000 residents live, or in the preparation of the lists. These are some of the obstacles that currently make the coalition agreement between Podem and Esquerra Unida “impractical”, as he expressed in a letter to the militancy of this organization briefing him on the negotiations.
“We have been meeting for a month between the two entities and an agreement does not seem possible so far,” the letter from the organization he manages said. Rosa Perez Garijo. It is clearly stated here that it is the “Podem recommendations and conditions” that make it “impossible and too complicated to reach an agreement”. In fact, he warns, these suggestions “get worse between meetings.”
There are three issues that bind the talks between the two sides together: their devolution to the municipal level, the organization of the lists, and the name. “Podem tells us that the regional agreement should be conditional on closing agreements between Podem in the four cities with the largest populations in the Country of Valencia (without any other political power),” says EUPV in the letter at first. These are Alicante, Elche, Valencia and Castellón.
This, according to the letter, “gets to the point where the regional agreement is broken if a deal is struck with more than four or one of several actors.” So, the possibility that the US would deal with Compromís in any of these regions except Podem would end the deal for the Corts elections. The EU rejects this measure because it states that “we work with the belief in municipal autonomy, not conditioning and imposition”. “And what’s more, when deals brought up by Podem are not feasible in some of these cities.” In this sense, according to the letter, Valencia and Castellón are proposing number 2 on the list and number 3 on Alicante.
Definitely lists are another big hurdle to getting the deal done. The letter states, “They still want 70-30 percent from us in terms of personnel and economic resources.” This will be number 3 for Alicante, number 2 for Valencia and number 3 for Castelló. This does not quite convince the US, which thinks that if the 5% threshold is crossed fairly and five seats are taken, there will be four from Podem and only one seat from the USA.
That’s why the leftist organization is demanding 60-40 percent, which will take place in two of the three provinces and number three in Alicante or Valencia. However, he adds that the counter-proposal of the formation directed by the Minister of Participation was rejected by Podem and that the deputy spokesperson talked about a possible improvement in their proposals in return for our hand over and resignation. In the Parliamentary Group (the problem we have now)”, this means for the US to “make invisible” their work in the group.
The final challenge Esquerra Unida sees as “important” when negotiating the new deal is “to get a coalition name that we all feel visible and identified with”. The body’s proposal is Podem-EUPV or EUPV-Podem, “as in almost all regions where both bodies have signed an agreement to hold regional elections together”, but they point out that it has a counterpart. “negative” and that it’s a “trivial matter”.
The letter to the militants is meant to express fear that the deal is complex and that there will be three candidates to the left of the PSPV, although they hope that it will “finally” be reached “on honorable and positive terms”. At the end of the day, the number of people competing in the ballot box begins to increase. This could lead to the fact that neither the EU nor Podem are able to overcome the 5% barrier required to have individual representation, thus complicating Botànic’s viability.