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Sumar Delays Defining Its New Brand and Candidate While Weighing an October Announcement
The alliance made up of IU, Movimiento Sumar, Más Madrid and the Comuns still has no date set to present its replacement ahead of the general election. According to eldiario.es, the situation in Ceuta and the difficulty of settling on a leader explain the delay.
The coalition negotiating the reconfiguration of Sumar remains unable to resolve two central issues ahead of the next general election: the name under which it will run and the person who will lead the ticket. According to eldiario.es, the four groups involved —IU, Movimiento Sumar, Más Madrid and the Comuns— initially aimed to finalize both announcements before the summer recess, but that goal was not met and now some sources are considering that the definition may not come until late September or even early October.
According to eldiario.es, Sumar attributes part of the delay to the migration crisis in Ceuta and says it does not consider it appropriate to focus attention on the space’s internal affairs while that situation remains unresolved.
In that context, Podemos moved ahead this Saturday with a proposal for open primaries to bring together the entire left in a common ticket. Both IU and Movimiento Sumar downplayed the novelty of the initiative, although they did not reject it. Antonio Maíllo, federal coordinator of IU, said he would not set “boundaries” in the search for a broad bloc, while from Movimiento Sumar they told eldiario.es that they have been working for months on a shared space and that the priority remains expanding that framework.
The outlet also noted that the negotiations are not only centered on the brand and the leadership, but also on internal decision-making mechanisms and a possible primary to define the lists. Among the names mentioned in recent months, Ernest Urtasun appears as one of the options most considered by the sources consulted, although he has publicly denied wanting to be a candidate and his profile does not generate full consensus within the space.
Other leaders have been left aside. Pablo Bustinduy refused to take on that role; Mónica García will be Más Madrid’s candidate in the regional elections; Sira Rego has already announced that she will not run in the next general election, as has Yolanda Díaz. Other external or less prominent alternatives, such as Unai Sordo and Ada Colau, were also ruled out, according to eldiario.es.
Meanwhile, the option of Gabriel Rufián is practically off the table. His proposal to build a common front between state left-wing and pro-independence forces ran into ERC’s refusal, as it insists on running under its own banner. At the same time, the lack of a defined brand and candidacy is also slowing the possibility of closing agreements with allies such as Compromís, Més or Chunta Aragonesista.
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