Sumar has no time to lose in the face of the imminent triple electoral call in Euskadi, Catalonia and the European Union and, once its founding assembly was held this past Saturday, it is advancing on two parallel fronts: The formalization of its future Executive its social growth seeking synergies with the civil society.
The first is being piloted by Yolanda Díaz in person. The leader of Sumar works with the idea of ??a management core of 25 people for which she will prioritize “people”, and the corresponding “areas of responsibility”, to the distribution of positions between the parties that make up the plurinational alliance.
As Sumar spokesperson Ernest Urtasun explained, this group of 25 people will be in charge of running the organization’s “day-to-day life” with specific work areas that draw on the previous work of the coordinating group in which “they are already represented the different coalition formations such as IU, Catalunya en Comú, Verdes Equo, Contigo Navarra and the Andalusian People’s Initiative.
The second leg, which will seek to root the project, will include the launch of a round of contacts with civil society to bring them closer to the political ideology approved that last weekend at the conclave held in La Nave de Villaverde (Madrid). Work that allows the left to expand in a context of polarization and division but “without repeating anyone’s steps”, as those from Díaz recall in relation to the trajectory of Podemos.
About that context, specifically about the moderate participation of those registered during the recent founding assembly – where only 8,179 of the 70,000 that Sumar has participated in the votes – Urtasun was asked this Monday at a press conference.
In his opinion, the participation figures in the Assembly were “satisfactory” because of the 70,000 registered, 14,000 decided to participate “actively” during the day and 8,000 participated in the voting. Therefore, these data constitute an “extremely strong” and “positive” human capital within the training.
Furthermore, Urtasun considers that this day reflected the “democratic and participatory” dynamics existing in the training, even more so taking into account the “political disaffection” that currently prevails among citizens.
“It was a great day, Sumar is now a reality and we have a political project for Spain. We have organization, we have structure and we are entering the new electoral cycle in the best conditions,” he celebrated.
