“Adding is absolutely essential for the legislature to come to a successful conclusion, not for the fate of the parties, but for that of the citizens.” In this way, Sumar’s parliamentary spokesperson, Íñigo Errejón, has explained the decision adopted by the plurinational group to focus on “governing” as the most effective measure to encapsulate the criticism received for the disastrous result obtained by the formation of Yolanda Díaz in the recent Galician elections.
With this purpose, Errejón went to the press room of the Congress of Deputies where he focused the beginning of his intervention on explaining the measures brought by his training for the weekly plenary session in the Lower House: The reduction of the working day, without salary reduction; and the recovery of universal justice so that “Spanish courts can investigate crimes under international law that have been committed anywhere in the world.”
The spokesperson for the confederal space has valued the five ministers that he has in the Government and has claimed their “absolutely fundamental” role for this legislature to come to a successful conclusion.”
Asked about the existing tensions within Sumar – Compromís has marked distances while the commons defend being a “own party and a reference in Catalonia” – Errejón has tempered the mood. And despite remembering that Sumar’s is a political project directed for the “state as a whole” that will continue to expand in organic terms, he has sent a reassuring message guaranteeing that it will be done with “respect” for the territorial forces and without entering into ” electoral competition”, wherever there is a consolidated sister force.
“That for us is a construction model and there is no contradiction there,” he emphasized in relation to the construction of Sumar, which will be done with deployment in territory, putting down roots and with “alliances with sister forces.”
The leader of the commons, Aina Vidal, had previously adhered to Errejón’s general thesis. Without hiding the “bad result” obtained in Galicia, the Catalan deputy has made clear her confidence in the project led by Yolanda Díaz: “It has a long history and future.” And, in fact, he has partially exonerated Sumar for what happened by remembering that, as it is in the middle of the construction phase, the risk of attending was “risky”: “They have done what they could and it simply has not been enough,” has gone into depth to thank the commitment of Sumar’s candidate in Galicia, Marta Lois.
Immediately afterwards, Vidal indicated that “now it’s time to govern and do it well.” In an accelerated attempt to close the Galician folder, the leader of the commons has claimed the commitment to “solve people’s problems” from the coalition government to immediately focus on the housing problem, urging the Executive to urgent publication of the price index to develop the application of the Housing law.
Only Compromís, which maintains a different relationship by sharing a parliamentary group but without being part of its organizational structure, delved a little into the criticism. Its deputy in Congress, Águeda Micó, has considered that the result of the Galician elections shows the importance of territorial implementation to have success in successive elections.
And based on that argument – but without explicitly demanding greater quotas of autonomy – he has highlighted the extra value that, in future regional meetings, it will bring him to add his alliances with regionalist parties such as Chunta, En Comú Podem and Compromís itself. “It’s a good path,” he advised.
