• Pacts Podemos and Sumar sign an agonizing agreement to go together to the general elections
  • 23-J The partners of Sumar do not want Irene Montero on the lists but they do accept Belarra
  • Analysis The infinite division of the 'true left': from dogmas to today's money

The titanic task of gluing together the thousand broken pieces of the alt-left to make a whole has been agonizing. Not to say crazy. The result is a coalition led by Yolanda Díaz and that brings together fifteen formations that unite between strong tensions and quarrels. The candidacy will usually be called "Sumar" throughout Spain, with a few exceptions, so the name Podemos disappears completely. Likewise, the vice president's face will be stamped as a logo on the ballot to help combat confusion or ignorance of the name.

It has fled from agglutinating denominations – such as Unidas Podemos or Por Andalucía – or from presenting a soup of acronyms on the ballot. The coalition will use in its campaign symbology, such as posters, the name "Sumar". Under the umbrella of this new electoral brand, the following parties will attend: Movimiento Sumar -the instrumental party created by Díaz to sign-; Can; United Left (IU), where the PCE-is embedded; Más Madrid and Más País; Compromís; Catalunya en Comú; Chunta Aragonesista, AraMés (Balearic Islands) and their brands; Greens-Equo; Drago Canarias; Batzarre (Navarre); Green Alliance; Asturian Left and Andalusian People's Initiative.

This will be the logo of the ballot. ADD

One of the big issues to be resolved has been the electoral lists. Many parties, many interests and many requests. As for Podemos. Its presence is reflected in eight theoretical starting positions in the case of repeating results similar to those of November 2019. They are number five for Madrid, four for Barcelona; and the numbers for Álava, Cádiz, Guipúzcoa, Navarra, Murcia and Las Palmas.

Ione Belarra will occupy the Madrid position, just behind Íñigo Errejón. Both go for the constituency of Madrid, which has been the great headache for being the most symbolic square and because it will be the one that a priori more positions of deputies distributes in the space.

Más Madrid has asserted itself as the hegemonic force in this region and has achieved half of the foreseeable starting positions, discounting the one that Yolanda Díaz has. She takes positions three (for a woman), four (Íñigo Errejón), seven and ten. Sumar has not revealed which independent will place as number two.

On the other hand, and this being an issue that worried a lot about the presence of Podemos in the coalition, even more so after the recent example given in the 28-M elections, Más Madrid is guaranteed to control the campaign in a strategic enclave and of great repercussion. There will be a campaign address corresponding to Madrid in which Más Madrid will hold "the direction in a collegial way" with Sumar.

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IU has had its own internal tension to award the positions it has negotiated with Sumar. Alberto Garzón resigned a week ago to compete in the lists to "promote the renewal of faces", but it was assumed that his role was going to be occupied by the spokeswoman of the Executive, Sira Rego. However, yesterday it was surprising that his step aside was also announced under the justification of "facilitating the presence of colleagues from other territories on the lists." It so happened that the PCE had been pushing hard for Enrique Santiago to be the "federal reference of IU and PCE" in the candidacy of Sumar.

IU leads the lists of Malaga and Cordoba and has the two of Seville. It also shares Tarragona in quota with the commons. It also heads Huelva, Jaén, Valladolid, La Rioja, Cuenca, Huesca, Soria and Zamora. In the constituency of Madrid it has the ninth position.

One of the pacts that surprisingly took longer was the one reached with Catalunya en Comú, the force led by Ada Colau. But it was because of the drag that generated the tensions with Podemos, which had its Catalan derivative for having reserved the fourth place for Barcelona.

The pact of Sumar with Compromís has substance. Well, it has been one of the great fires also with Podemos. The Valencian party achieves its main objectives: it will occupy the first two positions for Valencia and will place its brand in the name of the candidacy, which in the Valencian Community will be called "Compromís-Sumar: sume per guanyar". This is an exception. Sumar will correspond to the heads of the list for Alicante and Castellón. For the Senate, the distribution is reversed, reports Noa de la Torre.

In Aragon, the Chunta has worded that the number one for Zaragoza is his. It is the position previously occupied by Pablo Echenique, of which Podemos is silent about its future. CHA has reported that it will announce the name of its candidate in a few days but already celebrates the return to Congress of the "Aragonese agenda".

In the Canary Islands, the figure of Alberto Rodríguez emerges as a predictable candidate for Tenerife thanks to the pact of his formation, Drago Canarias, who was the early bird of all.

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  • Yolanda Diaz
  • Pablo Iglesias
  • Irene Montero
  • Ione Belarra

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