Alvaro Carvajal Madrid

Madrid

Updated Tuesday, March 19, 2024-01:40

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Sumar is advancing in the development of the documents that will shape its statutes and that will be approved on Saturday at the first assembly of its foundation.

The second, when this process will culminate, will be held this coming fall.

One of the latest innovations to be incorporated into the text is the "term limit" to 12 years in the same position.

But it will be done in such a way that the counter is reset to zero for all those who have a previous career in institutional positions.

This will allow Yolanda Díaz to accumulate up to 20 continuous years as a representative.

She made eight in December and would have the endorsement to be one for another 12 years.

The new clause with which the organizational document has been updated establishes that in Sumar "the maximum duration of continuous mandate of institutional positions will be eight years", however, a reservation is added so that they can be "extendable to 12 ».

The text does not specify any requirement for that extension.

Therefore, a priori it is granted automatically, unless it is later regulated in another way to establish conditions that are not present today.

These times correspond in the usual terms to three mandates in the institutions - on paper the legislatures last four years.

This supports Díaz in extending his leadership in Sumar for up to 12 years, which will officially begin this Saturday, and, with this, giving him the option of running for at least two more general elections as his candidate.

If the terms were shorter, she could repeat more times.

The term limit period will begin to run from now on, the date of the founding of Sumar, when the legislature still has three and a half years left.

It is true that the possibility remains open for this matter to be clarified later and for this period to be taken into account, which runs from the general elections of July 23 until now, due to the fact that many of the current deputies attended the elections. representing Sumar.

Clean slate

In any case, what is relevant is that a clean slate is made for all people, whether they are parliamentarians or other public officials, who have been carrying out previous political activity in other parties, and that in certain cases has led them to be in the Congress.

It is understood that Sumar is a new political force and that it has its own path, and that it cannot be determined by what has or has not been done in other organizations.

This is the case of Díaz, who became a national representative in January 2016, when she entered Congress with

En Marea

, the confluence with which Podemos ran for the general elections in Galicia and who debuted with her as a headliner in those of December 2015. Since then, and despite the ups and downs that this space has given, the Galician has continued as a deputy uninterruptedly.

She was later re-elected in the 2016 general elections and in the two 2019 elections within Unidas Podemos;

and in the recent ones of 2023 already under the candidacy of Sumar.

In total she accumulates eight years in a row.

There are other cases of Sumar leaders who have also been in Congress for many years.

For example,

Íñigo Errejón

, from his time in Podemos and Más País.

What happens is that, in his particular case, it has not been done consistently.

He spent practically the entire year 2019 without having a seat.

He resigned that January to run as a candidate for the Madrid Assembly and returned when the electoral repetition of that same year took place, returning to take up the deputy record in December.

So his seven years are divided into two separate periods.

Txema Guijarro

, current general secretary of the Sumar parliamentary group, has been in office for eight years

, because his entry into Congress also dates back to the time of Podemos.

Another novelty in Sumar's documents is the introduction of a clause to regulate the fees of militants who are also members of other allied parties.

A special price will be given to encourage members of parties such as IU, Más Madrid, Compromís,

Verdes Equo

or la

Chunta

to also participate in Sumar.