Movimiento Sumar plans to postpone the party assembly, scheduled for December 14-15. After the departure of the party of Íñigo Errejón, who was responsible for preparing the political document for this congress, several management officials believe that the deadlines should be reconsidered, even if the final decision will have to be taken by the Coordination Group in one upcoming meeting, as explained this Tuesday by Txema Guijarro, who is part of the collegial leadership that has led the party since the resignation of Yolanda Díaz.
“We are waiting for a meeting of the Coordination Group. This will be the moment when we will decide what we are going to do, but after having lost control of the political document, we will have to reconsider the deadlines that we had planned, although I would not like to anticipate any decision”, he reflected during a press conference at the Congress of Deputies, during which he served as temporary spokesperson for the parliamentary group until a new person was elected to occupy this position.
Guijarro insisted that such a decision had to be approved by the Coordination Group, the party’s supreme decision-making body between congresses, although he wanted to give his personal opinion on the matter. “We will have to listen to the Coordinating Group. What a humble general secretary thinks [del grupo parlamentario] “It is likely that, given the circumstances, we will have to reconsider this decision,” he told a news conference. Guijarro was elected in June as a member of the collegial leadership that governs temporarily until the next assembly, which also includes the Secretary of Organization, Lara Hernández; the communications secretary, Elizabeth Duval; and the Secretary of State for Social Rights, Rosa Martínez.
The reason that could lead to postponing the assembly is the important role that Íñigo Errejón, responsible for the political presentation that will be voted on during this congress, plans to play there. Errejón being excluded from the organization, this task will have to be assumed by another person who will have barely two months to carry it out. The former leader had also already written the political presentation of the founding assembly in March, in Villaverde, and sought in this new congress to pose some concepts to bring them to the most daily political news.
During this congress, the Movimiento Sumar should also update its organic document to adapt it to the new reality of training after the European elections. At the founding assembly in March, a hybrid operating pattern emerged in which Yolanda Díaz’s project was a hybrid structure that incorporated both her own activism and the parties. Its leadership reserved 30% for the leaders of the political groups that currently make up the coalition.
But this thesis was buried behind the internal problems resulting from the negotiations on the European lists. After June 9, Yolanda Díaz resigned from the organic leadership and the thesis emerged that Movimiento Sumar should be another party within the coalition of parties. The December Congress seeks to anchor this in a new document aimed at the new stage of the left.
