Sumar held a major event this Sunday in Madrid with which to “strengthen its political project” after a turbulent start to the legislature and which, with the celebration of its founding assembly on March 23, aspires to rebuild the political and social space the left of the PSOE after its notorious break with Podemos.
It is a conclave in which, surrounded by all the brand’s ministers, its leader, Yolanda Díaz, has placed Sumar in a decisive, but responsible, position to stop the right in times of polycrisis. “This is a key year for democracy throughout the country, but also on the planet.”
“We must decide between several paths and Sumar is clear that he will work hard in the fight against inequality so that people live better,” said the second vice president, congratulating herself on the achievements of the “useful policy” obtained by employment training. with the recent increase in the interprofessional minimum wage as the “latest example” and to which it aspires to add a “universal benefit of 200 euros per month per dependent child until the age of majority.”
Díaz, interrupted several times by the half a thousand supporters who have left the Goya Theater in Madrid too small, appeared on stage flanked by the rest of the coalition ministers: Ernest Urtasun (Culture), Mónica García (Health), Sira Rego (Youth and Children) and Pablo Bustinduy (Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030).
And together with them he has defended the need for a “democratic movement at the service of workers, green at the service of the planet and feminist at the service of women” to unite citizens with which to overcome the “great challenge of political disaffection.” .
Originally structured to lay the organizational foundations for its first assembly – scheduled for March 23 -, the event has included the analysis of the damage suffered after Wednesday’s vote that revealed the shortcomings of a formation still under construction.
An examination in which the newly appointed promoter group has participated whose mission is to consolidate the deployment of Sumar and which, among others, includes the former Minister of Universities Joan Subirats, the former mayor of the Madrid City Council Guillermo Zapata, the spokesperson for Más Madrid , Rita Maestre, various deputies from Sumar, the philosophers César Rendueles and Ernesto Alba, the writer Remedios Zafra and the former leader of Podemos Jesús Santos.
The creation of this kind of Executive with important names will help multiply the voices of a party in which the prolonged personalism of its leader, Yolanda Díaz, was beginning to be a burden on some levels such as discursive and negotiating.
Various Sumar sources have agreed to underline its need to “lay down roots” and deploy territorial groups so that citizens become “more and better” involved in their consolidation.
However, there have also been absences among the parties that make up the current confluence of the left, such as the case of Compromís and Més per Mallorca, which are not in the direction of Sumar and thus demonstrate the asymmetry in that space, with parties that for now are They are limited to the mere electoral alliance.
Neither Alianza Verde nor Drago Canarias have attended, two groups that have expressed criticism of decisions taken by Sumar.
