Sumar is advancing in the construction of the new political space, but the process will occur in two phases.
The platform led by Yolanda Díaz will hold a first meeting on March 23 that will lay the foundations of the future organization and will culminate next fall with its constituent assembly.
In the midst of debate about the role that the different parties will play in the project, the political and organizational documents, published this Thursday and which will be put to a vote at next month's meeting, establish that only 30% of its leadership will be occupied by representatives of political forces.
Although the formation avoids the definition of a traditional party and affirms that it seeks to bring together citizens and organizations, in practice it will be provided with a classic structure, with a coordination group - the highest management body between assemblies - that will elect the executive and the coordinator. general.
The organizational presentation, prepared by the Basque deputy Lander Martínez and the economist Paula Moreno, indicates that the coordination group will be equal and will have up to 110 members, 76 from Sumar and only 33 belonging to parties.
This body will be elected by the Assembly, in which all Sumar members participate (those registered of legal age and who pay a fee periodically).
The document contemplates the creation of temporary territorial groups, until their own processes are held, with an identical distribution of quotas.
This Wednesday, before the provisional leadership of Sumar, Díaz insisted that the new tool must be structured “on a citizen movement, but at the same time recognize the parties that share a country horizon.”
The text also includes a protocol on the relationship with political formations and establishes that “the acceptance of the participation of militants in Sumar under full equality of conditions” is recognized and materialized, an indirect allusion to the fact that double militancy is allowed.
The document mentions Izquierda Unida, Catalunya en Comú, Más Madrid, Verdes Equo, Contigo Navarra and the Andalusian People's Initiative as parties involved in the construction of Sumar and distinguishes between two avenues of collaboration with other forces.
The first is that involvement with the formation of the new space and the second is what it defines as “joint political action”, that is, the cooperation between Sumar and the rest of the parties that have not chosen to participate in the organizational construction of the project but that However, they are part of the electoral coalition that was presented last June 23, as Compromís.
Although in the organizational principles the presentation reflects that the “democratic and shared management” of the project “must be based on the primaries for the election of electoral representation”, among the functions recognized to the assembly only the “ratification” of the lists is mentioned. and the pre- and post-electoral agreements for the formation of Government at the state level.
The document also includes the maintenance of the 35 sectoral groups created in 2022 to develop the country project.
These must carry out a “review and update” of the document, as well as the “analysis” of the current context of each subject.
Add as a “cross-cutting” project
The political presentation written by the group's parliamentary spokesperson, Íñigo Errejón, and the candidate for the presidency of the Xunta, Marta Lois, vindicates Sumar as the party of democracy, human rights and freedom, a concept, the latter, that calls for “dispute”.
An “ambitious and transversal” project, recovering the idea of the first Podemos, and that avoids defining itself as a left-wing political force.
The text establishes three tasks for training.
The first, to be the “intellectual and cultural force that, in the face of temptations to retreat or reactionary threats, proposes a horizon for a better life”;
That is, it calls for an ideological battle against the rise of the extreme right.
In this context, the document distances itself from the Government partner and puts in black and white that the PSOE “is wrong” when it believes that this could be a “consolidation” legislature.
“In times of crisis, not moving forward is going backwards, and the only way to preserve rights is to expand them,” she adds at a time when the first disagreements within the coalition have already been seen.
As a second mission, he points out, Sumar must become the formation that, from the Government and the streets, pushes for "transformations" and a "change in the correlation of forces, democratizing the State and the economy."
Thirdly, make the new tool a stable project, which knows how to “organize the flow of support” so as not to depend only on “moments of enthusiasm.”
“Sumar is the movement of democracy, human rights and radical reforms;
that is, freedom.
It wants to be the project that collects the best emancipatory traditions and struggles of our history to make them a reality;
those of the socialists, the communists, the anarchists, the Christians and the liberals”, it is referenced.
The text also proposes “democratization” around six axes that, it states, “should translate into concrete victories during this legislature”: the State;
the economy;
the relationships between peoples, nations and territories;
human relations;
the good life and the right to the future, and Europe and international relations.
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