Sumar does not see “significant progress” in the meeting with the PSOE and the socialists emphasize that there are “more points in common than discrepancies”
Representatives of the PSOE leadership and the Sumar parties with a presence in the Government (United Left, Más Madrid, Comunes and Movimiento Sumar) met this morning in Congress to try to find a way out of the internal crisis. After an hour and a half of meeting, Díaz’s group highlighted that “there has been no significant progress” and has accused the socialists of “bunkerizing themselves”, while the PSOE points out that “they share more common points than disagreements.”
Sumar trusts that “within the framework of the next meeting of the Monitoring Commission of the Government Pact”, a body in which there are ministers, a “new impulse for the legislature” will be achieved. This group demands, among other measures, the extension of the suspension of evictions and rental contracts that expire in the coming months, in addition to the creation of the universal child-rearing benefit.
“We are aware that this Government faces a judicial, economic and political elite that has been trying for years to stop change in our country by all means at its disposal, but that cannot become an excuse to bunker itself in Ferraz and Moncloa and not respond to a citizenry that demands explanations and transformations.” The group calls the PSOE’s attitude “immobilist” and believes that “it only favors progressive discouragement, reinforces anti-politics and feeds PP and VOX and their far-right policies. “For this reason, beyond the cordiality and good words”, the meeting held today has not represented any significant progress,” the letter summarizes.
“The PSOE has the opportunity to relaunch the legislature on all fronts, but to this day it continues without even providing an alternative proposal to the one we have presented,” says Sumar, who believes that this attitude of “blocking the legislature would put the investiture agreement at risk.”
For their part, the PSOE assures that the meeting has been “positive.” The Secretary of Organization, Rebeca Torró, has expressed that the groups gathered share more common points than disagreements: “We have to continue improving people’s lives and, on that common path, dialogue is and will be the best tool to advance agreements that benefit the social majority of this country.” According to the PSOE, Torró has explained in detail the measures adopted by the PSOE against cases of corruption and harassment, which were the two questions raised to request this meeting: “The position of the PSOE in the face of any indication of corruption is clear and firm: Zero tolerance. We always act forcefully and immediately in the face of any conduct that goes against the values and principles that these acronyms represent. We have demonstrated it and we will continue to do so,” he says in his statement.
