Sumar suffered a new electoral setback yesterday. And now there are three in a row. In this case, also, with a notable involvement of the national leadership with the presence of its general coordinator, Yolanda Díaz, and her spokesperson, Ernest Urtasun in a good handful of campaign events.
But, after suffering two consecutive setbacks in the elections in Galicia – where Sumar is an extra-parliamentary force – and in Euskadi – where they barely obtained one parliamentarian – having retained six of the eight seats achieved in 2021 allows the confederal group to moderate the collapse that has been suffering since the general elections of 23-J. And, with this, trust in the viability of your project at the national level. Especially if PSC and ERC agree to sign a left-wing tripartite for which the commons would be an “essential” force, as the leaders of the confederal group repeated last night.
The problem for those of Yolanda Díaz is that there is still another appointment with the polls with the European elections of June 9 and whose immediacy barely leaves room for maneuver to straighten the course.
So exploiting this arithmetic possibility of a progressive government in Catalonia aims to be the burning nail that Yolanda Díaz’s people will cling to to mark their own profile in the face of the socialists’ strategy of regrouping the progressive vote around the acronym of the party of the rose. : “We are the only guarantee for the PSOE to apply social policies given its tendency to look to the right,” they have been repeating for several weeks.
Once the budgets of the Generalitat were knocked down last March, which ultimately led to the electoral advance, in Sumar they bet everything on establishing themselves as the political option committed against the “expired and climate change denialist megaprojects”, such as the Hard Rock hotel and casino project in Tarragona.
But its inability to establish that narrative in public opinion has hampered its possibilities while the first misgivings of the coalition forces within the Sumar brand have begun to emerge.
If the possibility of entering the next Government is thwarted, and if the results in the European elections are not satisfactory, the calls for reflection that until now the coalition forces such as Compromís, Izquierda Unida or Más Madrid have been making, will become demands for reformulate a project that has not yet taken flight and whose runway is running out.
