About to start the Catalan electoral campaign, and less than two months before the European elections, Sumar has decided to leave aside the integration of the various coalition parties in its national governing bodies until the internal storm subsides.
The doubts expressed by Esquerra Unida about “the inability of Yolanda Díaz’s coalition to unite the space” have accelerated. But other factors have also played an important role in the chemical reaction: the mistrust expressed by Compromís with the roadmap set by Sumar’s leader, Yolanda Díaz; the discomfort caused in Més Madrid by the unilateral plan to implement Sumar in the Madrid territory that disputed its autonomy, and the uneventful negotiation of the unitary list for the European elections, bearing in mind that the low vote projection did not it guarantees, not by a long shot, that all the coalition forces can get an MEP.
Forged the perfect storm, the first meeting of the coordination group led by the second vice-president and Minister of Labor will be launched this Saturday with only the representatives of the parent party present, under the argument of giving more time to the rest political organizations to join when they see fit. Although no one dares to set a specific date for pacification.
It didn’t take long for Sumar to go out yesterday to lower the severity of the frictions. The first was the parliamentary co-spokesperson, and leader of the commons, Aina Vidal, who argued that “the goldsmith’s work” that needs to be done to fit all the pieces of a coalition is “very complex”.
After her, Íñigo Errejón appeared in the press room of the Congress. The spokesman for the multinational group began his speech by pointing out that the way forward in a context of a “reactionary wave” such as the one we are experiencing in Europe requires progressive forces to “put their shoulders down”.
But he warned one and the other that “we are better off when we are able to cooperate (…) This is the way and this must be the political horizon that presides over all discussions”, concluded Errejón.
In this way, the photo of the first national executive of Sumar will be incomplete. The meeting of the Coordination Group will be held only with the members directly elected by the Sumar grassroots in March. Eighty people who make up 70% of the representatives of this body linked to the project led by Díaz.
The remaining 30% – 34 people -, as agreed in their organizational presentation, is reserved for the organizations that decided to link organically with Sumar, such as the commons, More Madrid, IU, Verds Equo, the coalition Contigo Navarre and the Andalusian People’s Initiative. And in no case will they be occupied this Saturday as a guarantee of the matrix towards the coalition formations.
From this list, Compromís, Aragonese Chunta, Drago Canarias or Més per Mallorca are left out, as they decided not to be part of the internal structure of Sumar and limit themselves to a simple electoral alliance collaboration.
