Compromís seeks its own profile within Sumar to negotiate on its own with Sánchez

Pedro Sánchez has Sumar's votes in favor of his possible investiture and is focused on negotiations with the nationalists to tie up the majority. However, the heterogeneity of the parliamentary group of 31 deputies that Yolanda Díaz will head may complicate the agreement. Compromís has already raised its voice demanding its own voice to negotiate with the president and warns that the price of the Compromís-Sumar votes will have a price: territorial demands such as the cancellation of the historical debt that they describe as “illegitimate” and the reform of the regional financing model under the “entitled” population indicator, not adjusted according to criteria such as ageing, schoolchildren or insularity. “The vote of the Valencians is worth the same as that of the Basques and Catalans and those of Compromís will be yes or yes if progress is made on these issues,” recalled the former minister and deputy spokesman in the Cortes Vicent Marzà yesterday, following a warning that the deputy Àgueda Micó already made. The intention of the nationalists is to negotiate these conditions directly with Sánchez, trying to extract specific agreements from him that do not remain in borage water, as happened in the previous legislature with those reached with Joan Baldoví. The legitimacy to do so is based on the good results of their alliance.

Compromís-Sumar obtained four seats in the Valencian Community, three in Valencia and one in Alicante, only behind Madrid (6) and Barcelona (1). Among these deputies, two belong to Compromís (Més and Iniciativa), one to Esquerra Unida and the deputy from Alicante, Txema Rodríguez, to Podemos, although so close to Yolanda Díaz that he will be the secretary of the parliamentary group and has left the purple formation.

This desire for independence formulated by Compromís joins the intention of Podemos to assert the weight of its five deputies in the group and in the negotiations for the investiture. How Sumar will manage the coexistence of sensitivities will be key in its future.

Bad experience with Podemos

Compromís already has experience in confluences, and it has not always been good. Although in the last legislature, after their agreement with Más País and Íñigo Errejón, there was good harmony and visibility in Congress, the first two with Podemos caused them to end up in the mixed group.

In 2015 they came together with Las Mareas and En Comú in Compromís-Podem-Es el Moment, with 9 Valencian deputies, two of them from Compromís, but neither the Congress Table nor Pablo Iglesias agreed to form their own group. In 2016 they joined Unidos Podemos under the name 'A la Valencia', already with Esquerra Unida integrated. They kept the nine seats, four acts for Compromís that ended up coming out of the influence of Iglesias. Now they want to give voice to their Valencian agenda in Sumar «yes or yes».