World
Sumar Delays Defining Its New Leadership and Aims to Announce It in October
The alliance still has no replacement for Yolanda Díaz after several rejections and amid negotiations among its four forces. Meanwhile, Podemos again pressed the idea of open primaries.
More than 200 days after Yolanda Díaz stepped aside from her candidacy for the next general election, Sumar still has not resolved who will lead the new stage of the space, according to El Mundo. Within the alliance, made up of IU, Movimiento Sumar, Más Madrid and Comunes, the diagnosis repeated in private is that the process is running late, even if the public message remains one of calm.
According to that outlet, the new time frame being handled by the parties is the first weeks of October. Other deadlines had previously circulated, but they were pushed back as no consensus name emerged. The difficulty, El Mundo notes, combines two problems: several favored profiles turned down the proposal and, in addition, the replacement must come from an agreement among four organizations with their own positions.
Among the names that were ruled out are Pablo Bustinduy, who was one of the favorites but did not accept for personal reasons; Ernest Urtasun, whom his circle continues to distance from that possibility; Alberto Garzón and Ada Colau, who, according to El Mundo, were also offered the chance to lead the project and declined to return to the front line of politics.
According to the Spanish newspaper, within Sumar the idea is gaining ground of choosing someone with political experience and public visibility, given a calendar that leaves little room to establish a new figure. At the same time, the talks are not limited to the candidate: they also include building a new common structure among the parties and a future electoral brand different from Sumar, a name that would be left behind with Díaz’s departure.
In parallel, Podemos again entered the dispute. Irene Montero relaunched her candidacy for the general election and challenged the space to define a possible joint candidacy through open primaries. El Mundo interprets that move as a way to pressure for leadership within the left-wing bloc.
The proposal was backed once again by Pablo Iglesias, who recently argued that the political differences and lack of trust between Podemos and the parties that remain in Sumar make a simple deal between leaderships unworkable. On the other side, the current alliance is first prioritizing agreements among organizations over the selection mechanism, in a scheme that, according to its leaders, seeks to avoid the logic of personalist leaderships.
Sources
About this note. Written by El Notero with the assistance of artificial intelligence, based on what was published by the cited outlet. El Notero did not do original reporting on this fact.
