Sumar faces the 9-J campaign with better feelings than those accumulated in the consecutive elections in Galicia, Euskadi and Catalonia that have hindered the start of the coalition Government’s legislature. “We knew that it was going to be a cycle in which complexity was going to go from more to less, so we faced the European elections with an undoubted growing momentum,” comments a source installed on the command bridge of the space led by the vice president. second, Yolanda Díaz.
From Sumar they regret that both the calendar and the PSOE’s undisguised objective of devouring all the possible space on its left has prevented them from making profitable their role as the Government’s locomotive in terms of progress and improvements in social rights. But with the recent stop to the Land Law or the extension of the breastfeeding permit, they believe that their work is finally beginning to become visible.
To try to translate this performance into votes, the plurinational group has chosen human rights and migration expert Estrella Galán as a candidate and safeguard of social justice in the current context of the advance of the extreme right on the continent.
On the battlefield of the left, and since they ended their tense coalition in December, one of the ways to gauge Sumar’s performance is by comparing its results with those of Podemos, and vice versa.
And after losing two roscos in the Galician and Basque elections, and declining to participate in the Catalan ones, the purple party has chosen to risk all its political capital – its four deputies in Congress are integrated into the mixed group – on a double or nothing with the former Minister of Equality as a candidate. A kind of plebiscite between Irene Montero and Yolanda Díaz with which to measure the political weight of each one.
“They didn’t want primaries at the time, but they are going to have them now,” defiantly point out from Podemos.
