Nine times has the spokesperson for Podemos, Pablo Fernández, repeated the "outstretched hand" of the purple party to go in coalition with Izquierda Unida (IU) and Movimiento Sumar for the Andalusian elections on May 17. And it is that after two resounding falls at the polls in Aragon and Castilla y León – with less than 1% of the votes – Podemos is making a 180-degree turn to the strategy of recent months and, for the first time, is opening up to an alliance with Yolanda Díaz's party in an electoral event. It thus lifts the veto it had imposed on Sumar and which had derailed other understandings: "With all actors," he made clear at a press conference. The offer, which comes four days before the deadline to register coalitions, would not change the number 1 position of Por Andalucía, the leader of IU, Antonio Maíllo.

Today is one of those days when it becomes abundantly clear that the great political debate of these times is immigration. Perceptions about immigration drive feelings, instincts, fear, and therefore votes. And the parties are playing hardball. In Catalonia and around the world.

Podemos will not budge and the transfer of immigration powers to Catalonia agreed between the PSOE and Junts is doomed to failure. The purple party reiterated its "absolute no" to the measure one day before the the consideration of the rule in Congress is voted on, that is, that the text can begin its parliamentary process. The spokesperson for the party, Pablo Fernández, has closed the door to a last-minute change of position, as demanded by Carles Puigdemont's party, and the four deputies of the purple party will not allow the initiative to take this first step: "We have clearly decided," he said in an interview with The ideas cafe, from La 2 and Radio 4. Fernández has argued that the transfer has "clearly and openly racist" motives and has attributed it to the "struggle" between the junts and the Catalan Alliance to see "who is more racist."