Movimiento Sumar, the group founded by Yolanda Díaz, is entering an interim process that will last several months. As confirmed by sources familiar with the decision, the executive approved this Thursday a temporary collegial leadership between four people: Lara Hernández, the current Secretary of Organization; Elizabeth Duval, responsible for communications; Txema Guijarro, as contact person for Congress, where he is general secretary of the parliamentary group; and Rosa Martínez, to do the same with Sumar's paw in the government, where she is Secretary of State for Social Rights, in Pablo Bustinduy's ministry.
The management of the organization, the so-called Coordinating Group, must now ratify this decision of the executive, which has proposed to resolve the resignation of Yolanda Díaz last Monday following the results of the coalition in the European elections, in which she was elected . cannot go further than the three seats.
Yolanda Díaz, with this new phase, seeks to open a new configuration of the political space in which she will concentrate on her task as a minister, but her role as political leader of the coalition of parties that she put together before July 23 and which has so far is composed, will give up. she tried to convert on a front where parties were integrated with democratic structures, a hypothesis that ultimately failed. “The government's action is led by our candidate, Yolanda Díaz, who is also president of the parliamentary group and part of our executive branch,” says the draft of the executive's political document, which this newspaper has had access to , and that this will be ratified belatedly. by the Coordination Group.
In the new scenario that presents itself, the parties will become more known: Izquierda Unida and Más Madrid have already asked that the formation of Yolanda Díaz would be a new force within the coalition and not a “unifying factor”, in the words of IU leader Antonio Maíllo. . Until now, Sumar had been the hegemonic subject of that political space.
That is why Movimiento Sumar must now make it clear which people are leading the formation at a stage where, if they want to lead, it will become much more complicated given the positions the parties have already taken. The Coordinating Group opted for this four-person collegial leadership on Thursday, which is expected to function until a new meeting in the fall.
According to the draft, the organization has agreed to the creation of an “Interim Collegiate Coordinator”, as this transitional body will be called. Moreover, at the institutional level, “an operational coordination plan is established with government action, as led so far by the Second Vice President of the Government and the Minister of Labor,” and the Collegiate Coordinator and the Executive are mandated “to “to start a process of debate and internal dialogue” and with the rest of the coalition parties, “to achieve a shared reflection to improve the mechanisms of operation and articulation.”
“As happens in progressive spaces in other countries, there is a push for a separation between the action of the government and parliament, and the action of the party at two different levels that are aligned. The work in government, aimed at the transformation of today and tomorrow, with the coalition and parliamentary majority, and the party that offers the long term and the brand, and therefore the project, is recognizable to the citizens,” he says. Step ahead.
This Sumar movement, the text says, has “the task of expanding space,” but specifies that it will count on the allied forces “as equals and indispensable in this task.”
The executive has also proposed in this draft to guarantee the fame of people already participating in Movimiento Sumar; to regain the so-called Country Project and that it serves both to “build the political horizon to which the Sumar movement wants to aspire from civil society” and to “serve as support for the action of the Parliamentary Group in Congress, while unites with the citizens.”
Finally, the Coordinating Group establishes a mandate for the executive branch to establish a working group together with the coalition forces to “prepare a proposal that will serve as a basis for the negotiations on the 2025 general budgets.”
“Addition is a movement and a necessary political project”
The executive draft, which is expected to be approved by the Coordinating Group at its meeting next Thursday, claims Sumar's leadership as a “necessary political movement and project” emerging from the “collective effort of 25,000 mobilized people and 90,000 people. registered people.” And it establishes its value, among other things, through the political capital of the Ministry of Labor and its actions in government and gives as examples the rise of the SMI, the use of ERTE or the labor reform.
On the other hand, it reinforces the value of the organization as its role as an articulator of the unity of the left. “The third value of Sumar's political project lies in his willingness to unite to various parties and groups of the left around a common project of progress and well-being,” the text said. “Organically, collaboratively, cooperatively or under the most appropriate formula in any case, it is our will to understand each other outside and within government to expand our space and articulate social majorities to transform our country,” he adds to.