Movimiento Sumar, the party created by Yolanda Díaz to channel her political project, will integrate this Saturday into its Coordination Group, the supreme body between the assemblies, two regional deputies from what was formerly Más País. They are the Andalusian Esperanza Gómez and the Asturian to run for the November 2019 Más País general elections which began a year ago.
Fuentes de Sumar, who will officially convene his assembly for this fall this Saturday, considers the two signatures “important in terms of organizational strengthening”. In the case of Vegas, which was part of the defunct Más País Asturias and is now integrated into the Convocatoria por Asturias, the objective is for the Movimiento Sumar to be present in the Principality and to organize itself there for future electoral events.
The incorporation of Gómez has a similar goal. Thus, the Movimiento Sumar emphasizes that it maintains Esther Gil de Reboleño, originally from Cádiz and member of the Congressional Council, as an Andalusian reference. But these sources highlight Gómez’s “good parliamentary work” in the Andalusian Parliament and consider that she is the key to the formation of a left-wing “future coalition” facing the next Andalusian elections.
At this Saturday’s meeting, the integration into the Coordination Group of MEP Estrella Galán, who led Sumar’s candidacy in the European elections in June, was also approved. And also to José Mejías, responsible for the match in Cádiz.
Building the party
After the bad result of the 9J, Yolanda Díaz announced her resignation from the organic head of Sumar, the coalition of 15 parties with which all the space to the left of the PSOE participated in the general elections of 2023. It was then that the closest team Díaz has considered. the need to return to a conventional coalition model, in which the minister’s project was “just another party” and recovered the name of Movimiento Sumar, to differentiate itself from the coalition.
The autumn assembly approved this Saturday will seek to consolidate the broad front and will develop the project as a party. One of the pending tasks is the replacement of Yolanda Díaz as leader, after her resignation in June, resolved temporarily by a collegial leadership that will function until the next congress.
This leadership is made up of four people he trusts: Lara Hernández, secretary of the Organization; Elizabeth Duval, communications officer; Txema Guijarro, as liaison officer with Congress where he is secretary general of the parliamentary group; and Rosa Martínez, to do the same with Sumar’s paw within the government, where she is Secretary of State for Social Rights, within the ministry of Pablo Bustinduy.
With the incorporation of Gómez and Vegas into the Coordination Group, it is also planned to complete the dissolution of the Más País subsidiaries in the different territories and their integration into Movimiento Sumar. Just a year ago, Íñigo Errejón’s party began this political process to make its positions, members and organizational structure available to the second vice president’s new party.
This movement has not affected Más Madrid, the party led by the Minister of Health, Mónica García, and which remains an independent force.
