Sumar and Compromís have reached an agreement in extremis to run under the same list in the next European elections on June 9. After weeks of intense negotiations – which have generated significant mistrust between both (we will have to see its consequences in the future) – the two parties have closed an agreement that will allow the Valencians to go at number three in the European candidacy.
This was the ambitious position that Compromís wanted and the one that they have finally achieved after threatening to activate a plan B that would have separated the paths of both formations less than a year after their first agreement for the general elections.
The Compromís executive, made up of 21 members, ratified the agreement this Thursday with only one vote against and one abstention. Now it remains for the organs of each party to support the proposal and the militancy to speak out in a consultation.
Likewise, it has been announced that next Monday the primary process will begin, which will end with a vote open to citizens on April 27 to choose the Compromís candidate who will go on Sumar’s list. There will be no gender correction, and whoever wins the vote will be number three.
Sources from Sumar’s management have also confirmed the agreement and point out that with the pact, “a candidacy that will represent the voice of the Valencian progressives and the entire State in Europe” is achieved. The same sources point out that, in these elections, in which the future of Europe is at stake, “plurinationality must also be reflected in the European Parliament: We are at stake for a feminist, green, sustainable and labor future.”
Despite the difficulties of the negotiation -Sumar began by offering 6 to Compromís-, a pragmatic agreement has been reached that avoids a major crisis in the Sumar space and that would have made the participation of the Valencians in the European championships irrelevant. It cannot be ignored that both formations share a parliamentary group in Congress.
This last week the contacts between the parties have been multiple. In fact, the Compromís management meeting should have been held last Tuesday, but it was called off a few hours before and postponed to give more time to reach an agreement.
