It remains for him to take his listening process to Andalusia and the Canary Islands, which will be the next stops on his platform
MADRID, 5 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, has intensified the deployment of ‘Sumar’, the project that she promotes to reconfigure the alternative left to the PSOE, with a dozen events so far this year.
In addition, since it began in July of last year, it officially launched Sumar, it has already held 15 meetings of its territorial tour of the communities to deploy the ‘listening process’, the consultation phase with civil society, with the assistance of 20,000 people in as a whole, according to what sources from the platform indicate to Europa Press.
With the arrival of the new year, Díaz has multiplied Sumar’s events, which he combines with his government agenda and international commitments as head of Labor, and since 2023 began they have been held almost weekly.
In this way, he has already gone to Catalonia (with a double act in Tarragona and Barcelona) where he once again received the support of ‘the commons’ and the mayoress of Barcelona Ada Colau, as well as visiting Palma (Balearic Islands), Valladolid (Castilla and León), Albacete (Castilla La Mancha) and Murcia in the framework of his regional tour. And this Saturday it was the turn of Santander (Cantabria) with another citizen meeting.
In total, he has already accumulated six territorial acts of the listening process that have been combined with another five of a sectoral nature, by meeting with representatives of the LGTBi community, economists, the Treasury technicians unions (Gestha), and groups in defense of public health.
And in between, he also brought together members of Sumar’s 35 sectoral working groups in January and outlined a preview of Sumar’s programmatic proposal, the compendium of measures that will constitute the “country project” for the next decade, as defined by the company itself. Diaz.
Previously and in 2022, the acts of the listening process were deployed in Extremadura, the Basque Country, Navarra, the Valencian Community, La Rioja, Galicia and again in Catalonia, in addition to the official presentation in Madrid, in addition to meetings with groups to collect proposals.
In this way and as indicated by sources from the platform, Díaz has already visited 15 autonomous communities in almost eight months and he still has to go to the Canary Islands and Andalusia, visits that he has planned in the near future; apart from the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
Precisely one of the premises that he set before starting to deploy Sumar was his intention to travel throughout the country to listen to social and professional groups, given that in this consultation phase the leading role falls on the citizenry.
The second vice president has also explained that she has already held meetings with the political parties, contacts that extend to fifteen formations, including the formations of Unidas Podemos (Podemos, IU, Alianza Verde and En Comú Podem), in addition to others outside the confederal space such as Más País, the Aragonese Chunta, Més per Mallorca or Compromís.
Last Thursday and in an interview with Cadena Ser, he explained that “soon” he will communicate his decision regarding whether he will be a candidate for the general elections, although he avoided revealing if that announcement will be before the regional and municipal elections on May 28.
Throughout the events, the head of Labor has proclaimed that she is willing to take a “step forward” if the public so wishes, that Sumar is going to be the “key” for a future progressive decade in Spain and that this movement it is already “unstoppable”, specifying that it requires the collaboration of many progressive sectors, both social entities, unions and political parties.
Of the latter, he has said that they are essential for this project, but he has also asked them for generosity and to work with “discretion” and “love” to complete the construction of Sumar.
For the moment, Podemos has stated that it respects its times, although it stresses that time is pressing in the face of the new electoral cycle and delves into its request to seek a coalition agreement as soon as possible. In addition, he has advocated for primaries open to the citizenry as the best method for choosing candidates.
The ‘commons’ have expressed full harmony with Sumar as well as IU, a formation that feels comfortable with the times of Díaz, whose general coordinator recently proposed the creation of a table of parties that want to converge with Sumar and proportional primaries to define the lists by constituencies.
In turn, the leader of Más País, Íñigo Errejón, has stressed that he maintains a “magnificent relationship” with the head of Labor but now his training is focused on 28-M and this is not the time to talk about future alliances with Sumar for the generals.
