Yolanda Díaz's partners in the Balearic Islands break with Sumar and will go with ERC, Bildu and BNG to the Europeans

Eduardo Colom Palma

Palm

Updated Monday, March 25, 2024-21:26

Just two days after its founding assembly, Sumar is left without one of its electoral allies. The Balearic nationalist brand that brings together the Més per Mallorca party has decided this Monday to break with Yolanda Díaz's party and not run under the umbrella of its electoral list for the European elections on June 9.

The assembly of the insular eco-sovereignty party and formation of deputy Vicenç Vidal, has voted today not to repeat the formula of the last general elections, where the Catalan nationalism of the archipelago was integrated into Sumar and obtained a historic result, raising for the first time a deputy from Més to the legislative chamber.

The assembly members of Mallorca change their pace, abandon the electoral coalition with Sumar and overwhelmingly support (with 89.7%) the initiative of the party leadership, which has preferred to return to its classic alliance for the next appointment with the urns.

Més will compete in the European Parliament elections as part of the candidacy of ERC, EH Bildu and BNG (under the Ara Repúbliques brand) led by Oriol Junqueras, and not in a coalition with Sumar.

This option is what the majority of the party's bases have been demanding, traditionally more identified with the nationalist movement and republicanism than with the more inclined options of the national Spanish political left.

It is also the option that a good part of the leadership demanded and that channels the existing discontent with the Sumar project and the poor parliamentary visibility of the party and its political demands.

Sumar garnered more than 80,000 votes in the Islands in last year's general elections, a result undoubtedly enhanced by its alliance with Més, a party that has been present in the Balearic government in the last two terms and that enjoys a long tradition, always ideologically located between ERC and the PSOE, a party with which it has edited government pacts at different stages.

"It is a clear commitment to the construction of a Europe of the people," said the leader of Més per Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia.