The Sumar Coordination Group agreed this Sunday to hold a political conference on March 29-30, 2025 and thus postponed its second congress, which was initially scheduled to be held between December 14 and 15 this year. From the training they explained that they made this decision due to the current situation, where management of the effects of DANA and measures to protect citizens are now the priorities.
Sumar, as previously stated by his spokesperson and Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, conveyed his affection to all the victims and demands accountability for the deaths of more than 200 people. Urtasun affirmed that the president of the Valencian Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, must resign and if he does not listen to the “cry” of the Valencians during yesterday’s demonstration, it will be the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who deletes it.
The Coordination Group, Sumar’s highest executive body, also positively appreciated the “rapid management” and response to complaints of alleged sexual harassment against former parliamentary spokesperson Íñigo Errejón, immediately demanding his resignation.
“Gender-based violence cannot be part of any space and we must continue to take steps to eliminate it from all areas of society, including politics,” he concluded.
Errejón was the coordinator of the political presentation
At the end of October, the group had already indicated that the congress was going to be postponed, as the collegial coordinator had already postulated before the Errejón case broke out. One of the members of this interim coordinator and secretary general of the parliamentary group, Txema Guijarro, explained that his criterion was to rethink the modalities and deadlines of the assembly.
It also happens that Errejón was responsible for coordinating Sumar’s political presentation for this conclave, which is the most important document and which is now “orphaned” with the departure of the former spokesperson. The other presentation, that of the organization, is entrusted precisely to Sumar’s organizational secretary, Lara Hernández.
On September 28, the Coordination Group set the date for the second assembly in mid-December, with the idea that it would have a strong political component, rearm itself ideologically and define its new organic structure. Note that with today’s decision, this is postponed until next year.
In fact, there were already some unknowns about this assembly, such as whether it would be used to elect a new general coordinator once the second vice-president, Yolanda Díaz, resigned from that position following the Sumar debacle during the general elections of 9J.
After the bad electoral cycle this year, Sumar went from aspiration to be a grouping of formations to the creation of a table with allied parties such as IU, Más Madrid, ‘Comunes’ or Verdes Equo, on the basis of a model of horizontality and permanent equality.
