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Updated Monday, March 25, 2024-13:58

  • Politics The PSOE sees Yolanda Díaz's leadership weakened: "She is not the powerful figure she was"

  • Politics Sumar witnesses the first leaks for the Europeans: Més is inclined to go with ERC and Drago to be deleted

Sumar denies the biggest one: Yolanda Díaz, far from what even the socialist ranks believe, is stronger than ever inside and outside the coalition government of which she is second vice president and the "progressive soul." This weekend, the Minister of Labor also received the ratification of the bases of Sumar, already established as a party, and is reinforced in the Council of Ministers after the turbulence derived from the break with Podemos and in the face of the important electoral calendar that it faces. Spanish politics in the coming months.

"We are facing the elections in the best conditions," Sumar's national spokesperson, Ernest Urtasun, boasted this Monday, after ensuring that the formation emerged "strengthened" from the internal conclave, despite the fact that only 11.6% of the bases participated and , of them, almost two out of ten (18.5%) opted for a vote critical of the vice president. But Díaz "leaves" the assembly "with extremely high support data," Urtasun assessed in this regard.

The justification by its formation comes as a consequence of the unrest within the PSOE that has emerged in recent hours. EL MUNDO tells it this Monday: in

Ferraz

they see Sumar as "stalled" and harshly criticize the decisions adopted by satellites of the party that have shaken the legislature, such as the refusal of the

commons

to support the Catalan budgets and in the Barcelona City Council. In the first case, the drift has had an echo in national politics, since the early elections in Catalonia have forced Pedro Sánchez to discard the General State Budgets for this year, the negotiation of which was already underway.

Precisely this lack of control over its partners, which the PSOE reproaches Díaz for, is also being strongly felt in recent hours: territorial allies of the vice president such as

Més in the Balearic Islands

and

Drago in the Canary Islands

threaten to lead the first splits of the project facing the European elections, whose event is a litmus test to assess Sumar's muscle once it is established as a party.

But these accusations are frontally rejected by Sumar, who highlights "the strength" and organizational capacity of both the vice president and the space she leads. "If there is one thing that everyone knows, it is that the progressive soul of the coalition government comes from Yolanda Díaz," remarked the national spokesperson for the coalition.