Marta Lois returns to her position at the university after not winning a seat in Galicia but will continue to be linked to Sumar in a role that she will decide "in the future"

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Updated Thursday, February 22, 2024-20:34

Sumar Galicia's candidate for the Presidency of the Xunta in the last Galician elections, Marta Lois, has announced that she will return to her position as a teacher at the University of Santiago de Compostela, but will continue to be linked to Sumar in a role that will decide "a future".

This was announced in statements to the media this Thursday in Santiago before the first meeting of the promoter of Sumar Galicia after the electoral setback last Sunday, in which the candidacy led by Sumar's former spokesperson in Congress was left out. of the Galician Parliament by obtaining less than 2% of the votes cast.

Accompanied by the spokesperson for Yolanda Díaz's party in Galicia, Paulo Carlos López;

Lois has indicated that the decision to return to her professional activity as a professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences of Santiago does not imply her separation from the project of which she was spokesperson and deputy in the Cortes, positions from which she resigned to be head of the list on last February 18th.

"We have some very important objectives and dates coming up, both March 23 (1st State Assembly) and the European elections, and I am going to be there building, weaving and accompanying this entire process to organize the structure," he stated. Lois, who stressed the need to "look to the future."

Questioned about what role she will play at an organic level from now on, Lois has avoided specifying whether she intends to assume a leading role or whether she is committed to exercising a second line function.

"I will continue to be in the collective project of Sumar Galicia rowing collectively and, from there, we will see, after these dates, what my role will be and what my role will be in the future," she added.

For the former councilor of Compostela Aberta, Sumar must face a new stage after some "bad results" at the polls that she considers were due to the "lack of time" for her project to reach the Galicians after an "advanced" campaign by the president of the Xunta and leader of the PPdeG, Alfonso Rueda.

In any case, he believes that, as an organization "under construction", Díaz's party must "look to the future" in Galicia.

The spokesperson, Paulo Carlos López, has stated along the same lines, indicating that it is time "to build and establish ourselves territorially to have a future" as an organization after some "bad, unmitigated" results at the polls.

"We have to learn from the mistakes we made as an organization," said López, for whom "the context" of these elections "was not easy."

However, he believes that they will be able to draw lessons for the next challenges of Sumar Galicia, which he places, in addition to the "territorial" development of the organization, in the First State Assembly in mid-March and in the European elections of June.