Sumar has put aside the internal tensions that are being caused by the fit of its coalition formations into a national structure to launch a message of unity “in the face of the exceptional situation that we are experiencing due to the campaign of the right and the extreme right in our country.”
With the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, at the helm, the group of ministers of the plurinational group – Mónica García, Ernest Urtasun, Sira Rego and Pablo Bustinduy – met yesterday with their positions in the Government, and the parliamentary spokespersons, to defend the coalition Government in any of the scenarios that may open after the period of reflection initiated by the leader of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez.
“The cases of harassment and overthrow of progressive governments around the world lead to an anti-democratic drift that we all have a duty to stop. We can’t allow it. A democratically elected government must fulfill its mandate,” Sumar sources said after the conclave.
The leadership of the plurinational group shared reflections and agreed on the need to “defend democracy and continue advancing an ambitious social agenda that shows that the Government is there to improve people’s lives.”
As the spokesperson, Íñigo Errejón, later pointed out, “the crisis opened by Sánchez’s decision has placed the Spanish political system before a structural limit. “Something has just broken these days in the balance of power in Spain.” “The most privileged and most conservative sectors have experienced a reactionary drift that has sharpened their patrimonial conception of power, according to which only governments that fully coincide – obey – their interests are legitimate,” he noted in a forum in Eldiario.es.
In this sense, sources from the coalition formations agreed in pointing out the need to carry out an in-depth analysis of how they want to participate in public life and how to change the political model, since, in the end, there is “enormous citizen fatigue” and this favors far-right positions.
It is not just about the situation that Sánchez is experiencing, now with the complaint filed against his wife, “this goes far beyond his specific case,” they told Efe.
Despite not being included as an item of the day, the meeting served to heal the cracks opened after the complicated preparation of the European lists in which the Comuns and Compromís obtained better starting positions than Izquierda Unida and Más Madrid, among others. And it helped soften the terms in which the creation of its first national executive will be developed today in which 70% of the management will be elected.
In the original planning, it was planned that the other six political formations that make up the platform – Izquierda Unida, Más Madrid, Catalunya en Comú, Equo, the Andalusian People’s Initiative and Contigo Navarra – would join this leadership, but their integration was paused for a few weeks so as not to divert attention from the Catalan elections of 12-M.
In Yolanda Díaz’s speech, there will be a key general line to talk about the defense of democracy as the basis of the Sumar project and as the basis of the challenge we have today. She will also talk about Sumar’s upcoming challenges as a government force and the issues that concern us: the right to housing, the reduction of the labor force, tax reform, care policy and the democratization of the justice.
