“The objective was to be in the Basque institutions and we have achieved it.” With this simple reasoning, Ernest Urtasun has summarized Sumar’s feelings after the recent elections held this weekend in Euskadi in which Yolanda Díaz’s party managed to enter the Basque Parliament by the minimum margin.
The national spokesperson for the space led by Yolanda Díaz has shied away from self-criticism for results that show that, after the complicated divorce with Podemos, the space on the left of the PSOE is at a minimum, and has focused on praising the “starting point “what the deputy won in Araba can mean for the deployment of the plurinational project.
“Jon Hernández Hidalgo’s seat has been obtained in a difficult context and with a lot of pressure from EH Bildu” (…) and “it will mark an upward trend for Sumar,” Urtasun insisted.
The electoral hangover, however, is unequal between the national matrix and the coalition formations within which Izquierda Unida is the one who has raised its voice the most by pointing out that not having gone together with Podemos (which has not even entered) has taken its toll. to the space to the left of the PSOE since in the 2020 Basque elections the Podemos-IU-Equo coalition obtained six deputies.
IU has threatened this Monday to rethink its relationship with Sumar, even threatening the possibility of not joining its management team, which will be chosen on Saturday after the anger caused by the offer of positions 4 and 6 on the list for the European elections, behind the Commons and Compromís.
But none of all this has caused Sumar’s management to deviate from its script this Monday since, outside of microphones, they frame these statements in IU’s internal process to elect Alberto Garzón’s successor at the head of the formation and give fact that Izquierda Unida will be part of the European candidacy.
Spirits are lower in Podemos, whose national spokesperson, Pablo Fernández, admitted on Monday the “bad results” of the party in Euskadi, resigning himself to “continue working.”
At a press conference at the party headquarters after the Executive meeting, in which there were no journalists because it was held shortly before Sumar’s, Fernández confirmed that the purple formation has not “gained the confidence we wanted to continue pushing our project”.
“We have to continue working with the councilors that we have in Euskadi. We also have a presence in the General Meetings, so, despite the fact that last night’s electoral results are bad for us, we have to continue working so that soon we can be more strong,” he reflected.
