The electoral hangover from the Galician elections is choking on Sumar. On Monday, and despite the fact that the meeting held early in the morning by the leadership was “hectic”, both the matrix – led by Yolanda Díaz – and the set of forces that came together for the general elections – among which the common ones stand out , Compromís and Más Madrid – agreed to point out that the “lack of time” to implement the project in Galicia was, along with the “polarization of the useful vote towards the BNG”, the reason that prevented them from obtaining a single deputy.
And as an antidote, both agreed on the need to work for the “organizational strength” and for the “territorial roots” of a brand for which they still predict “a lot of future.”
But there the consensus ended. Especially when Sumar decided to announce on Tuesday a series of reaffirmation events for today and tomorrow in Valencia and Alicante.
Despite justifying them by the need to advance the organizational structuring process in view of the founding assembly that Sumar will hold on March 23, Compromís expressed its discomfort upon understanding that Yolanda Díaz’s team seeks to “create its brand and not legitimize” the that already exists.
“It is true that by not having joined Sumar they can defend the same thing in Valencia. Even so, we do not understand what they aspire to achieve when the importance of territorial implementation has become clear after the Galician elections,” Compromís sources stressed.
But far from waiting for the promise of “not competing electorally” to cover the wound, Sumar announced on Thursday more acts of the same nature for next week. And this time in Madrid. Something that has irritated the party led by the Minister of Health, Mónica García.
Sources from Más Madrid admit to La Vanguardia their discomfort at the fact that Sumar is trying to “make organic development through the back door.” And they wonder why in the absence of organization in other territories such as Castile, where organizational construction can be launched, “they have decided to start doing it where there is already a force with enormous implementation.”
In that sense, Más Madrid defends the need to move forward hand in hand. Differentiating the state and regional arena and conveying García’s participation in the Community of Madrid. And not unilaterally as Sumar has decided to do. Even less at this moment. With the negative result from Galicia still recent.
Seeing all this, Més per Mallorca has already put itself on guard. And since they are accustomed to failed landings of national brands as happened at the time with Podemos, they recommend a calm debate within Sumar “to define in this construction phase what they want to be when they grow up.”
