Alvaro Carvajal Madrid

Madrid

Updated Sunday, March 24, 2024-02:14

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The founding assembly of Sumar yesterday gave birth to a new party that tries to transcend what was the coalition of fifteen brands for the July general elections into a new political force that consolidates the space of the alternative left under the same umbrella of unity. The problem is that this association is held on pins, because the placement of the pieces of the puzzle is being really complex. This has unleashed internal tensions over an organizational model that must balance the interests of national and regional parties with Sumar and that has led Yolanda Díaz to leave the debate for later and resolve the territorial fit in a second "constituent assembly." which will be held in the fall.

There it will also have to be clarified if Sumar resigns itself to being a coalition of parties or if, instead, it takes the leap to transform itself into a federation of forces that encompasses all organizations and turns it into a "broad front" that brings together the alternative to the PSOE.

Díaz articulates a new party with structures, rules and direction

For now Sumar has closed a provisional system with which to get going. Now it will have structures, rules and a leading group for decision-making through more democratic channels. Likewise, it has established the foundations to create a militancy with various models of involvement for its growth. From the founding assembly, held yesterday in

La Nave

, in Madrid, Díaz leaves with control and the mechanisms to face that future.

She, as the new general coordinator, and her team will therefore be in charge of unraveling the tangle of interests to establish coexistence. The central conflict is how Sumar will be deployed territorially. The model she is betting on is "completely asymmetrical" and addresses "each specificity" of the autonomies, as official sources acknowledge. Which, in the end, translates into differences between them. "We have to escape from a hypercentralist and vertical model and opt for a federal structure that transfers the idea we have of plurinationality to the Sumar structure,"

Lander Martínez

, one of the designers of the model, said yesterday.

The leader of Sumar ties up control and will deploy its implementation

This means that Sumar will not exist in

Catalonia

. Give all that space to the

commons

. He refuses to establish himself there and establishes that

Catalunya en Comú

is his "vehicle." It is justified in that it responds to an "inherited tradition" that caused the

PSUC

or

ICV

to previously exist there . Therefore there will not even be an organic or hierarchical link. Sumar only aspires to have some seat in the leadership of the

commons

.

The Community of Madrid

will also have a special status

and that has unleashed a huge internal confrontation with IU. Just a few days ago a bilateral agreement was signed between Sumar and Más Madrid by which the Díaz project would renounce being developed there. That is the thesis supported by Mónica García's party, however, Sumar sources clarify that it is a mixed model and that, although Más Madrid has total control, there will be a certain autonomous structure to accommodate IU. The Madrid party points out that this will only happen in the municipalities in which IU or the brands that flourished with Podemos have roots.

Sumar will not exist in Catalonia and will have a minimum base in Madrid

The Madrid model has IU very angry. The Madrid federation denounced yesterday that if it is as Más Madrid says, Sumar would have "broken up" with IU. Less drastic, but delving into that criticism, Sira Rego spoke from the lectern, demanding a "plural space" where everyone is "comfortable" and where "different political traditions" coexist.

IU, Compromís and Chunta are irritated with the development in the autonomies

In the rest of the autonomies there will be a more defined development of Sumar. That of the Valencian Community agitates for Compromís and that of

Aragón

for

Chunta

. Both forces are the two most important that have stopped participating in the construction of Sumar "from within" and will accompany Díaz from the outside, as simple electoral allies. Sumar tries to calm their anger by promising that he will not compete in the regional elections and that he will support them.

Pressure from IU forced Sumar to accept that in autonomous development the directions are agreed upon by "consensus" with the parties. And what if there are no primaries. That will give IU control of

Andalusia

and a lot of power in

Asturias

. The rest of the regions will be more of a Sumar quota. And with these wickers Díaz will have to lead.

Díaz warns the PSOE: "You are wrong if you think you can do it alone"

As soon as she was appointed general coordinator of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz wanted to send a warning to the PSOE after her latest disagreements and the worsening of relations, now that there will be no budgets and that the socialist ranks are questioning her leadership in her space. political. "Anyone who thinks they can do it alone is wrong," she warned.

Díaz delved into that message by alerting the PSOE that people want to see them "walking together" and advancing progressive policies. «From Sumar we are not going to make mistakes. "We are going to continue taking care of the coalition government," he said, later concluding that what we have to do is "take care, take care of and take care of."

Likewise, Díaz called for ambition in policies, such as housing, because "whoever thinks that it is enough to settle is wrong."

Already in a more internal key, he told those who believe that his project is going to be a "parenthesis" that Sumar "has come to stay." He assumes, however, the "great challenge" of "laying down roots", starting with the thousands of municipalities.

Díaz claims that his project is "for the next decade" and that he aspires to "create a new social contract" to "gain rights for the country."

On the other hand, Sumar's spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, said that Sumar wants to broaden the progressive spectrum "without repeating anyone's steps," alluding to Podemos.