The left continues to make progress in building a broad front to alleviate the drop in seats that all polls predict with respect to the 2023 general elections, when Sumar obtained 12.3% of the vote and 31 deputies. Without a defined leadership still after Yolanda Díaz, and after the Minister of Social Rights has rejected – as he has always done – being the option to lead that ballot, Pablo Bustinduy will, however, be one of the protagonists of the event that will be held in Seville next Sunday, April 19.
In the midst of the Andalusian pre-campaign, the motto of the coalition, which already, on this occasion will be “A step forward for Andalusia”, incorporating the name of the candidacy that encompasses all the parties of the so-called alternative left in the community, except Adelante Andalucía, the political force promoted by Teresa Rodríguez.
Sources from the coalition parties (Izquierda Unida, Más Madrid, Comunes and Movimiento Sumar) have announced this Sunday who will be the participants in the meeting to be held at the Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions in Seville. Along with Bustinduy will be the ministers Mónica García and Ernest Urtasun, as well as Antonio Maíllo, candidate for the Presidency of the Board and federal coordinator of IU, and Esperanza Gómez, head of the list for Cádiz and co-coordinator of the Sumar Andalucía Movement. The person in charge of presenting the event will be Inma Nieto, spokesperson for the Parliamentary Group of Por Andalucía during the last legislature.
The event takes place immediately after the summit of progressive organizations and leaders that will be held in Barcelona next weekend and ten days after this Thursday the ERC spokesperson in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, spoke with the leader of Podemos Irene Montero and the former deputy Xavier Domènech about unity, stirring the idea of a possible electoral tandem that
All in all, Rufián is the highest-rated leader among left-wing voters: 52% see him as a favorite to lead a unity candidacy, according to one for EL PAÍS and Cadena SER. And Podemos, in a very weak moment after the (where it garnered less than 1% of the vote), seeks to take the lead in the electoral race. Ione Belarra’s party, which initially criticized a similar conversation between Rufián and Emilio Delgado (regional representative of Más Madrid), has changed its strategy. In the middle of Holy Week, he agreed in the extremes attend in Por Andalucía next May 17. Although they were the ones who sought the agreement after a year and a half of refusing to be part of the same ballot, they showed their , considering that it did not reflect “their real political weight.” No one from Podemos is expected to attend Sunday’s event.
