Vice President Yolanda DÃaz presented yesterday in Madrid the confluence agreement of the left under the umbrella of Sumar. “You asked us for an agreement and we have achieved it.” That will be the distinctive character of Sumar, “dialogue and agreement”, she explained in an act at the Diario Madrid Foundation. The Sumar leader thanked the negotiating teams of the 16 political organizations that achieved confluence: “Not only have they risen to the occasion, but they have given the best of themselves to understand that the people wanted us to let’s shake hands.”
“We have reached a great pact for hope,†DÃaz stressed, announcing that his campaign will not focus on fear of the extreme right. “Sumar has not come to agitate fear, panic, or to tell horror stories, but to point out the emperor’s suit and remember that he is naked.” The imperial allusion was expressly addressed to Alberto Núñez Feijóo, whom he accused of not knowing the country’s economic situation and disbelieving organizations such as the European Commission, the OECD or the International Monetary Fund. “They lie and make noise because they have nothing to offer,” said DÃaz, making it clear that Sumar’s political character will be New Labor and that his political adversary will not be the extreme right or the PSOE, but the leader of the PP.
He affirmed that Sumar intends to “listen to those who are afraid, doubtful or do not trust because they have reasons that we must listen to and solutions that we must offer.” The objective, he insisted, is to win the elections on July 23: “We are going to win the general elections and build a new country agreement.”
DÃaz assured that Sumar and his country project are born from the conviction that “our country can be better and will be better, that life can be easier.” This supposes, he explained, that Sumar will not operate out of indignation, but “caring for the people”, with “different forms, with care, with affection and with respect” because the general elections “are not about the last four years, but about the next eightâ€.
From Podemos, for her part, the organization secretary, Lilith Verstrynge, who will be number four on Sumar’s lists for Barcelona, ​​spoke yesterday before the press demanding that Sumar review the agreement of the previous day. “There are nine days left to rectify, and we hope they will reconsider.” The signature of Podemos in the agreement with Sumar seems to lead the caution of the liquidation firms that end up in the Labor Court: “Signing, not conforming.” Lilith Verstrynge insisted that the exclusion of Irene Montero from the confluence lists is “a manual political error” and she assured that she does not contemplate that Sumar does not give in.
Podemos, explained Verstrynge, understands that Montero embodies the persecution and harassment – political, media and even judicial – that the purple formation has suffered, and that his absence is not only consolidating a punishment for the party, but for the entire feminist movement. “It sends a very dangerous message of disciplining the feminist movement, women and the whole of society that wants to get involved in politics,” she said in a brief statement. The number two of Podemos explained that the decision of her formation to run together with Sumar is not so much a voluntary act as forced by agonizing circumstances: “We are going to run for the elections on 23-J with Sumar because anything else would make it easy for them to the right and to the extreme rightâ€.
In the same sense, the letter that the general secretary, Ione Belarra, has addressed to the Podemos militancy in which she repeats her argument from Friday is expressed: “We have been threatened that, if we do not accept these conditions, we would be excluded from the coalition , as it already happened in Andalusiaâ€, where the purple ones prolonged the negotiation until the final minute and ended up arriving late for the signing. The former leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, in an open letter on the digital CTXT, goes further and says that he “is aware that people around him (…) try to warn him that he is compromising his political objectives by assuming himself as the final executor of a violent campaign orchestrated from the most sinister apparatuses of the media, judicial and political rightsâ€.
In recent hours, this statement about the exclusion of Montero has been controversial because, although Sumar’s negotiating teams deny it, other sources close to Podemos assure that there was no such veto and that it was Irene Montero herself who refused to join the Sumar lists as number one for Bizkaia.
