The entry of the process of configuring Sumar as a political party into its final phase has begun to air the difficulties that the articulation of the political weight of the respective formations integrated into the brand is entailing.
And in this procedure Izquierda Unida has been the first to raise its hand to express its discomfort with the pre-assigned portion within the political and organizational documents made public last Thursday. Structure that, as seen, will have up to 110 members -55 men and 55 women- of which 76 will belong to Sumar while only 33 will be members of the coalition parties in the confederal space.
“IU’s political capital clearly transcends 30%,” said the co-spokesperson for the federal leadership, Amanda Meyer, to define the quotas proposed by Sumar as an “error” since, among others, they do not correspond or with the “strength” nor with the “territorial weight” of Izquierda Unida.
Meyer is very dissatisfied with the proposal made by Yolanda Díaz to limit the percentage of participation of other parties in the new direction of the confederal space and advocates focusing the debate on “how Sumar is doing in the different territories, which people have to be included , what social, academic, political references can they contribute so that this space grows”.
In any case, Meyer confirmed that the articulation of Sumar is in a “first phase”, in which the parties do not yet participate directly, but he advanced that IU is not going to keep its opinions to itself throughout the political process of configuration of the Frente Amplio . For example, that “Sumar has to be something more than an institutional space” and “it has to have political geographical decentralization and radically democratic processes in that sense.”
