The Sumar Coordination Group, its highest governing body, agreed on Saturday to convene the outfit’s second state assembly for December 14-15, according to party sources.
In this sense, the aforementioned sources explain that the event will take place in Madrid with a strong political component to update its roadmap of the main ideological aspects as well as its organic structure.
Sumar has already set a date for his organic conclave, a key event for his rearmament process after his poor electoral cycle, and the question of whether a new general coordinator will be elected during this conclave is still up in the air.
This year’s regional and European elections were a serious setback for Sumar, also linked to tensions with allied parties. The day after 9J, the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, decided the day after 9J to resign from her position as federal coordinator of the project that she had promoted, after being elected to this position at the end of March, and to remain as reference for space within the Government.
Interim coordinator
Faced with this organic void, Sumar chose to deploy a choir and interim coordinator composed of the Secretary of Organization, Lara Hernández, the Secretary of State Rosa Martínez, the deputy Txema Guijarro and the Secretary of Communication of Sumar, Elizabeth Duval.
At the same time, Sumar opened a new stage with its partners after the 9J and, in consensus with them, the deployment of a party table with IU, Más Madrid, ‘Comunes’ and Verdes Equo to open a new stage of horizontality and a relationship on an equal footing, while other forces like Compromís, Chunta or Més are limited to simple electoral collaboration.
He thus guaranteed the inclusion of his allies in internal bodies to which he gave 30% of the management positions, which has already caused clashes with formations like IU and which was finally suspended due to tensions around the positions from the European list.
Thus, it has decided in consensus with IU, Más Madrid, ‘Comunes’ or Verdes Equo to deploy a party table to make strategic decisions horizontally and on an equal footing, of which a first meeting has already taken place with the secretaries organization.
Precisely this Friday and within the framework of the annual party of the PCE, the head of the Sumar Organization defended the formation of alliances in the alternative left based on the recognition of the plurinational, of the diversity of space, without limitations ideological and also the principle of “one person, one vote”. And he emphasized that in this space, no one was “eternal or essential.”
What became clear after the Coordination Group meeting is that the second assembly will seek to promote Sumar’s political proposal with the idea of going on the offensive on the country’s main issues, such as feminism, l environmentalism, housing and work reduction. hours.
This Saturday, the spokesperson for the formation, Ernest Urtasun, emphasized in previous statements to the media that the internal plan will take place calmly and that its priority is to implement the main social measures, such as housing, remuneration for permits and reduction of working hours. “We set the agenda,” he stressed.
Assemblies in Euskadi and Galicia
Sumar is also strengthening its territorial structure, aware that this is precisely one of the handicaps that the new left formations have suffered, as Podemos has suffered, for example, in certain communities.
Concretely, Sumar will culminate in November the assembly processes in Euskadi and Galicia, where it was deployed as a party in the last regional elections.
