Ernest Urtasun was in charge of taking stock of the Galician elections in Sumar yesterday. And after not getting any MPs due to having less than 2% of the votes, he did it bluntly: “The result is bad and we will not shirk responsibilities”.
The state spokesperson for the formation led by Yolanda Díaz highlighted as the main causes of its defeat both the “lack of time to consolidate” the brand and the inability of the candidacy led by Marta Lois to “explain clearly that the political change the Xunta asks to expand the progressive vote, not to concentrate it”, as it was, around the BNG and the PSOE.
From there, Urtasun tried to catalog the Galician episode as an isolated event and rejected that a similar defeat could be reproduced in the next electoral tests – Basque elections and European elections. “You need responsibility, humility, work, honesty and making Sumar a stronger project”, he listed as steps to follow.
The tenacity with which Urtasun spoke, however, did not work as he had hoped, since, a month before the celebration of his founding assembly, the nerves and existing tensions between the coalition formations are already beginning to be felt in the multinational group.
Starting with Més Madrid, whose spokeswoman, Manuela Bergerot, pointed out the importance of “territorial roots” as the success of its formation to become the second political force in the community, only behind the almighty Isabel Díaz Ayuso (PP): “The needs and desires of the citizens must be recognized in order to achieve change”, she said.
Compromís, on the other hand, went a step further. Not only did he point out the Galician Nationalist Bloc as “the mirror in which to look”, but its leader, Joan Baldoví, defended the autonomy of the Valencian coalition coalition in Sumar to assess “all the options” for the European elections scheduled for June.
If the electoral hangover in Sumar was bad, in Podemos it was even worse, since, with just 3,854 votes, it was the eighth political force. But despite being even below the animalist party Pacma, its state spokesmen, Pablo Fernández and Isa Serra, avoided self-criticism.
“The results are eloquent and we will open a deep reflection”, they agreed to point out, although their first conclusions were focused on improving and recovering the connection with citizens and not so much on analyzing their electoral program or their strategy campaign, since they consider the result that the polls offered them to be inevitable. “We had a very complicated situation, we ran a campaign with few resources and the result is what it is”, they pointed out to turn the page and focus as soon as possible on the European elections, in which, with Irene Montero as candidate, a good part of his political future will be at stake.
