Trusting that the basic laws of architecture do not apply to politics, Sumar has fundamentally completed the implementation of a political project that was forced to break through after the advance of the 23-J general elections that It paused the listening process started months before by the confederal space.
For this reason, and despite the fact that he has been sitting every week in the Council of Ministers for several months, the assembly held was his founding act.
A conclave held in the La Nave space in Madrid to define its main ideological and strategic lines, and in which 70% of the leadership group has been elected – the remaining 30% is reserved for the coalition parties, among which IU, More Madrid and common – through a vote in which there were no surprises as the list led by Yolanda Díaz clearly won (81.6% of the votes).
In this way, and while waiting for that 30%, the second vice president of the Government also ensures control of the party by amassing for her supporters 76 of the 137 positions that the national executive will have.
The winning list includes a good part, if not all, of Díaz’s hard core with the Minister of Culture and spokesperson for the party, Ernest Urtasun, as number two, the parliamentary spokesperson, Íñigo Errejón, in fourth place, as well as his boss of political cabinet, Josep Vendrell.
“Sumar is not about winning the elections, but about winning the country as was done on 23-J,” she proclaimed as soon as she was enthroned for her militancy.
The Minister of Labor has listed the actions undertaken by Sumar through its five ministries – Health, Culture, Social Rights and Youth and Children – to summarize the feeling of reinforced training: “We know well that it is not going to be easy, but Sumar has come to advance rights against (…) And whoever thinks they can do it alone is wrong,” he has veiledly warned the PSOE, whom he accuses of “having placed the legislature on standby” and giving up even trying to approve general budgets for this year after the Catalan electoral advance.
On the political level, Sumar proclaims a “laborist, green, feminist and plurinational” political ideology. While in the organic sector it is committed to the “federal” model, rooted in the territory and the desire to be a “friendly” space for the coexistence of different progressive sensibilities, as demonstrated by the non-competition agreements recently signed with the commons and Más Madrid. in Catalonia and in Madrid, respectively.
Sources from the new leadership trust that the recently concluded “successful assembly” will be a “turning point” through which to shake off the doubts that arose after the disaster that the Galician elections meant for Sumar. Although they recognize that “the emergencies are pressing” and that the three elections that will be held between now and June – Basque, Catalan and European – will measure their robustness sooner than desired: “We are obliged to get the steps we take right.”
