Yolanda DÃaz’s Sumar platform has registered an “instrumental party” called Movimiento Sumar to facilitate confluence with the rest of the forces to the left of the PSOE and at the same time “to be able to guarantee the participation of independent and professional people” in it in the face of the general elections of July 23 called yesterday by Pedro Sánchez, according to the formation in a statement.
The registration of Movimiento Sumar takes place at a time when both Izquierda Unida and Alianza Verde and Verdes Equo have already announced that they will contest the general elections on 23-J under the umbrella of the platform of the second vice president of the Government, in which most likely there will also be the common ones, Más PaÃs and CompromÃs, among others.
All this while waiting for Podemos, which has always called for open primaries for the preparation of the lists as a condition for joining the project. However. The term of ten days given by the electoral law to present makes this possibility extremely difficult.
In its statement, Sumar sets out as its objective “to be the great house of democracy” and defines itself as “a Europeanist, plural movement, with a firm will to face the challenge of the climate emergency and move towards a freer, more feminist and more egalitarian”.
It is insisted that they work so that Sumar can attend the general elections, bringing together all the political groups that share the country’s project for the next decade with the aim of turning Yolanda DÃaz into the first president of the Government of Spain and guaranteeing a progressive majority. that “allows us to defend the rights conquered and to continue advancing”.
Sumar has opened talks with the forces of the alternative left, including Podemos, to close an electoral coalition with which to contest the elections within a maximum period of ten days, as established by the deadlines for registering coalitions. At the moment, no names or candidacies have been mentioned in the talks that the two parties have held so far.
The Minister of Education, Pilar AlegrÃa, in an interview on TVE, has asked the rest of the left-wing parties to also read what happened and reflect on what is happening in many countries around us. She and she have urged them to carry out an exercise in “responsibility and unity” in the face of the upcoming elections to prevent Spain from catching the arrival of far-right parties.
