Everything is ready between the four Sumar parties with a presence in the Government to launch on February 21 at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid the bases of the project that will face the next general elections. Although it is not the name of the candidacy or a campaign slogan, the pre-coalition in which leaders of Izquierda Unida, Más Madrid, Comunes and Movimiento Sumar have been working for months has already been baptized as “The Alliance of the Left”.
These formations have been there since before the summer to be able to repeat the confluence of 2023 and attract new actors for the elections scheduled for 2027. The context is different from that of two and a half years ago, without a leadership still clear in the political space to the left of the PSOE – Vice President Yolanda Díaz has not made her intentions public – and with a right and far right much stronger than two and a half years ago.
Antonio Maíllo advocated early this Tuesday to update both the “program and the political objectives and the reference”, that is, that it is not the current head of Labor who heads the next list. Asked on Cadena SER if Podemos will join this project, Maíllo has assured that there will be a unitary proposal, but has warned: “Those who exclude themselves from this impulse and this social mobilization will be left out of history.”
“We want to build a solid and reliable space over time that allows the transformative and plurinational left of the State to meet,” sources from the parties of the process that will be officially presented next week have stated.
“Our will is to strengthen the alliance that we have already developed in these years of government. Learn from the mistakes and enhance the successes. Starting from the recognition of differences, but working fraternally towards a common horizon that, of course, we want to open to the set of political and social forces that are today concerned about the future of our country and that, above all, want to continue conquering rights and taking policies that improve the lives of the majority as far as possible,” they add. “We are aware that this is only part of the task, that is why we want to work for a new horizon for the country also through organization and mobilization in the street,” say the same sources.
“This initiative, which we have been working on discreetly for several months now, began with the formalization of a permanent political coordination body by the four forces that form part of the Government of Spain and a series of working groups with the aim of advancing a joint proposal, which on the 21st will take its first public step with a joint act. It will be at the same time a starting point, an invitation and a call. It is the moment of openness, generosity, plurality, agreement and shared strength. It is The beginning is the first step. We are going to go much further,” they conclude.
These days, the hangover from the election night in Aragon, with the bad results that leave Podemos out of the Cortes and the coalition between IU and Movimiento Sumar with a single deputy, has been mixed with the announcement of, critical of the current leadership of his party. Their organizations have disassociated themselves from the talk, which will focus on the future of the left, although Rufián himself insisted this Monday on the need to do something different to stop the advance of Vox.
Regarding the initiative raised by the ERC deputy, which all parties lowered this Monday, Maíllo stated that he does not believe that the deputy is pointing to a “self-proclaimed” leadership. “Agitation is welcome. Especially from militancy and ordinary people. I think Gabriel is not about saying ‘I’m going to lead anything’, but rather about stirring up the debate of making an alliance as broad as possible,” he considered.
