Unlike what happens in the Valencian Community and Madrid, where Sumar seems willing to implement its brand outside the territorial partners with which it maintains a strategic alliance (Compromís and Más Madrid), the same will not happen in Catalonia. Here, Catalunya en Comú will be the reference force and will retain its political and organizational sovereignty in order to strengthen the alliance with Yolanda Díaz’s project.
This is reflected in the “bilateral” agreement between Sumar and the commons that both parties have drafted and which was ratified by the commons in a national council held yesterday in Barcelona.
The agreement document, which has yet to receive the signature of Sumar’s management, contains two fundamental axes. On the one hand, the ratification of the commitment of the commons for Sumar, which translates into the political and organizational involvement of the Catalan party in the vice president’s project, and on the other hand, the respect and preservation of the commons as a “space reference” of the alternative left in Catalonia. This means that “the political positions on issues that have to do with Catalonia are decided by us,” say sources from the Catalan party leadership.
The agreement, which has yet to receive the signature of Sumar’s management, comes at a key moment for the construction of the vice president’s project, which plans to hold its constitutive assembly in just one month, on March 23. The commons do their bit by promising “loyalty” in favor of the construction of a “strong state space” with aspirations to “change Spain.” To achieve this, the involvement of the Catalan party will also be organic.
The treaty establishes that the commons will be integrated into the definitive executive commission of Díaz’s party, in which it is expected that the same Catalan leaders already integrated into the provisional commission will remain, such as the first secretary of the Congress Board, Gerardo Pisarello, the coordinator of the commons and deputy Candela López, the Minister of Culture Ernest Urtasun, and Díaz’s chief of staff, Josep Vendrell.
With this strategic agreement, the commons ensure that “there will not be a Sumar in Catalonia”, as it seems that Díaz would be willing to promote apart from other territorial partners. And “it is not going to happen like with Podemos,” sources from the commons guarantee, remembering that they and the purple formation maintained their own organic structures in Catalonia despite their alliance.
Just as in the rest of the State, the concordats between the regional formations and Sumar are more complex, in Catalonia “it is easier”, explain the same sources, due to the dominance that the commons maintain in the space of the alternative left. Thus, while in other territories there is greater competition between political brands, in Catalonia the common ones are the reference, while Podem Catalunya is residual.
