The metamorphosis of adding | Spain

Thousands of people were waiting for a full sun in July 2022 the beginning of the act in an esplanade of the Matadero Cultural Center in Madrid. The queues to enter had formed hours earlier, there were almost no game flags and Yolanda Díaz was received at the shout of « President! ». In the midst of a climate of citizen disaffection with politics, the figure of the head of work and the yearning of unity mobilized a voter tired of the fights on the left after the boom after 15-M. « This does not go from matches, it does not go on acronyms, a better country will think, a project for the next decade, » proclaimed the vice president in the presentation of adding. Two and a half years later, the space is fractured again and Surveys draw a very difficult panorama, tied by division with Podemos and the rise of the rights.

Sumar Movement (MS), the instrumental party that Díaz created before the generals to be able to present in lists to civil society profiles that arose from that process, has consolidated this weekend its metamorphosis. The Training Assembly reformulates it as a classic organization, of very modest territorial presence, and that has resigned to be the umbrella that integrates in its structures other political forces (United Left, more Madrid, common, green, green…), the original idea of ​​the project. Díaz is no longer in front and did not even go to Congress on Saturday, although it continues as number three on the list With an enormous influence on the organization, it will act as an institutional coordinator and do participate in the closing of this Sunday.

This Saturday, in Rivas-Vaciamadrid, a historical bastion of the left in a community governed by the PP since 1995, the 500 delegates attending Congress were photographed and displayed of their regional flags in a festive atmosphere. After last year only 8,179 registered participated in the voting, the party has changed the election system. The representatives approved with 93% of the support the official list headed by the current Secretary of Organization, Lara Hernández, and the deputy and economist Carlos Martín, that will exercise double coordination. The rival candidacy did not get enough guarantees. The delegates also endorsed the political and organizational documents and gave green light to several resolutions, among others, to Promote alliances with other leftist formationsopen to society and « reissue » with « greater transformative capacity » the government with the PSOE in 2027. « The set of forces that we were able to build the coalition are called to understanding. This understanding must be given without a priorirespecting the plurality of identities and guaranteeing political autonomy as the basis for the construction of agreements, ”says the approved text, which marks the road map to follow and implicitly appeals to Podemos in a scenario of weakness and with the party of Ione Belalarra every day more remote. It is absurd to try to compete with other regional forces. ”

« The objective now, » summarizes Lara Hernández in conversation with the country, « is that we build an organization to contribute and continue contributing to the cohesion of space, with a vocation to open to society and implement social transformation policies. Do not leave that emptiness to the right and the extreme right. » « In the background, » adds Carlos Martín, « we are going to look for the same as before. We stop being umbrella of our space because the dialogue will be equal to the same among all parties, but our basic goal within that space is its articulation, because it is impossible to revalidate the victory of July 2023 if we do not. »

The step back after the European

In June 2024, after adding Three seats in Brusselsonly one more that we can head by Irene Montero, Díaz said: « I feel that I have not done things well. Citizenship has perceived it. » Among strong criticisms of the parties, the head of Labor resigned in the position of coordinator of Movement of Sumar, just three months after being officially appointed in the Villaverde Foundation Congress (Madrid). It concatenated four electoral collapses (in Galicia, the Basque Country, Catalonia and European) and the negotiations for the lists to Brussels, to a dog’s face and that finally left IU without representation in the Europarliament, ended up solivlying the rest of the political forces of the confluence, which lashed out at the decisions of the direction due to lack of internal democracy. Antonio Maíllo, the leader of IU to the position only one month earlier, gave that same night for the summar of then: « It is overcome. Now the prominence we will have the formations that we integrate, » he said. United Left has been one of the most critical with the choice of the name of the Díaz party (Sumar Movement) and the confusion of the part with the whole (the coalition and the parliamentary group add in which they participate).

The matches had already arrived with a strap to the March assembly of that yearafter it became public that Movement to add renounced to be implemented in Catalonia and largely in Madrid. « What we do not want is to step on our scrub, » they explained colloquially then from the direction of Mas Madrid. This asymmetric development between communities solivized IU, of a federal nature, but with greater force in Andalusia and Asturias, and the debate on the integration of the formations in the Sumar structures was postponed for the next assembly, then planned for autumn. Díaz’s resignation caused everything to jump through the air.

Ismael González, former head of the Federal Organization of IU in charge of carrying the negotiations of the entire process with the then chief of cabinet of the vice president, Josep Vendrell, believes: “The hypothesis of building a agglutinating space of the left of state was not failed, what failed was the way to agglutinate”. « Adding ran to an organic unit when there were no wicker for it. Yes there were for a coalition. It is a debate that requires time, so that the organizations themselves can decide democratically, » adds González, now away from national politics.

The June elections worked for revulsive and finally buried that model. The crisis por The resignation of Íñigo Errejón It served again to point out a decision -making on his little democratic day. The parliamentary spokesman had been chosen in February by Díaz’s core and not counting on the rest of the group’s forces. His resignation between accusations of sexual aggression fell like a bomb throughout the leftopened another crisis in more Madrid and also served to delay the plans of the MS Assembly. Errejón, one of the intellectual leaders of the formation, had written the first political document and the scandal forced immediate changes, such as the elaboration of a protocol against harassment.

And now what?

« Who does not want to be, has to explain it »Said the vice president this January, carrying the responsibility for the break. The fracture complicates the aspirations to revalidate a government with the PSOE after a very complex legislature: No budgets or insured parliamentary majorityin a context of increasing defense expend Public confrontation with the Treasury. It was a support for those of Díaz at the gates of his assembly. « For that we are in the Government, to give the fighting fights, » the spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, presumed, in an opening in which he called Spain of « Village Gala », asked to use the fiscal collection « record » of 2024 to « boost the social agenda » and took chest of its utility: « The progressive Spain we are building from adding from adding, » he said.

The new party executive will be outlined in the coming weeks. While the rise of Hernández, who held so far the position of the Secretary of Organization, was a agreed election for a long time, Martín’s was a last minute surprise, directly decided by Díaz. The formation had requested up to four times to Rosa Martínez, Secretary of State for Social Rights, who assumed the position, but it declined. Within the current direction, there are those who question Martin’s appointment and do not see with good eyes or that a party that is defined as “plurinational” has two Madrid coordinators or their public position last summer against the agreement for the singular financing of Catalonia between the PSOE and ERC (to add, the coalition, support). Other parliamentarians outside MS believe, however, well the « counterweight » to excess so far relevance of the common ones within the party. He minimizes the discrepancy: « It is normal that there is debate on a basic issue such as how public services that manage communities are financed. We will address it with plural solutions, » he says.

Without being in charge of organic coordination, Díaz must still decide if he returns to the generals, a proposal that should have the endorsement of the rest of the parties. And the fundamental obstacle would be Podemos. « It is still the leader in the field of government. That has not changed, it is a leadership recognized by society as a whole, » says Lara Hernández, who in any case resolves: « Everything she wants to be within the Movement of Summar, will be. »