Íñigo Errejón begins to take steps to surrender his —modest— castles to the organization that Yolanda Díaz plans to build. In a good part of the territories, Más País has no organization and has few staff. And Movimiento Sumar continues to be an “instrumental party” without bodies, which waits for a government to be formed before even announcing the date of its first assembly, scheduled for the end of 2023 or beginning of 2024.. In this framework, the deputy has already celebrated the dissolution of Más País Andalucía, last weekend, to join a formation that has not yet announced concrete steps in any territory. It has barely made public that it wants to establish itself in Euskadi, and it is foreseeable that it will do the same in Galicia, given that next year there will be elections in both autonomous communities..

The operation, in the words of a former leader of one of the organizations within the confluence led by Díaz, involves integrating “nothing” into “nothing.”. And this, they add from the second vice president's party, whenever those responsible for piloting the construction of Sumar in the different territories decide to open the doors to them.. In Andalusia, where IU (specifically, the PCE) took the majority of starting positions for the general elections of 23-J, they interpret that the movement makes sense, but they warn that each territory must follow its own logic. Sumar's “objective” is to “expand democracy” and “the political space,” they say, paraphrasing Díaz, and “not integrate other parties” without further ado.. There have been approaches in regions such as Murcia, but they affirm that today there are no accessions, as such, on the table. The intention is that they continue to occur, and the second vice president's team knows it..

“We have decided that, instead of working for the brand with which we have done it these three years, we are going to put our strength into motion Sumar, providing it with a base and structure that has yet to be defined,” he said last weekend Esperanza Gómez, leader of the party in Andalusia. On Monday, the spokesperson for Díaz's party, Ernest Urtasun, praised the step taken by Gómez: “It is excellent news that the parties are involved in the construction of Sumar.”. In the same press conference, he encouraged the rest of the formations to participate in the constitution of the party. To “paddle in the direction of building a winning project”.

The political decision of Más País, advanced by eldiario.es and confirmed by El Confidencial, is to join the construction of the organization in the rest of the territories, but there are several areas that are prohibited from doing so.. Nobody contemplates that the second vice president tries to land her own project in Catalonia, in the Valencian Community or in Madrid. They are the fiefdoms of the Comunes, Compromís and Más Madrid, the group that Errejón helped found, with which he participates in events and rallies, but in which he does not hold organic power.. If Mónica García's party obtained 18% of the votes on March 28, Errejón's Más País barely obtained 7.7% in Asturias, and did not reach 3% in Murcia. The small print is also important: in the first region it participated together with IU, which is the organization of its political space with the greatest weight in Asturias.. In the second, it fell behind the coalition of IU, Podemos, Alianza Verde and Equo, and did not even achieve representation in Parliament..

Errejón entered Congress as number 4 for Madrid, within the Más Madrid quota, but does not have a specific role in this party. More Madrid is facing the Congress these days in which García will revalidate his leadership and update the direction, which is expected to end at the end of November. The former leader of Podemos, who resigned from being the purple candidate for the Madrid Assembly to create his own brand, left Más Madrid months later to make the jump to the general elections. He made it an ally with Compromís, and they barely achieved three seats.

Today, his role in Sumar also raises questions: of all the parliamentarians aligned with Díaz, he is the only one with experience as a spokesperson in Congress, but he does not hold any of the four spokespersons that were available to him.. Nor does he hold the title of spokesperson, which Urtasun has inherited from the campaign period.. He usually appears on television every week, and even attends interviews that Sumar distributes on its press channels, but it is Urtasun and Marta Lois, along with Díaz, who monopolize the spotlight.. Unlike Enrique Santiago (IU) and, of course, any representative of Podemos, his speech is almost identical to that of Urtasun or Díaz.

The animosity generated by the Madrid politician in Podemos is taken for granted, but there are other organizations in the Sumar space that are already looking askance at this movement.. And what makes him ugly is that in his day he tried to take the reins of the purple party, but without openly disputing Pablo Iglesias for leadership.. They understand that it seeks to “control” the future structures of space, even before the first stone has been officially laid to begin its construction.. They remember that García has already made it clear to her that she is the one who makes the decisions in Más Madrid, and they interpret that Errejón opts for this route to secure organic power that she could not obtain by other means, given that her political project has not taken off..

Publicly, only Podemos and IU have demanded that Díaz address the construction of decision-making and debate bodies within the space, but off camera other parties in the coalition criticize Urtasun's boasting that decisions are made “democratically”, when in good part of the opportunities are informed when they have already been taken. It happened with the legal opinion on the amnesty law, whose pillars IU barely knew, and Podemos, Más Madrid and other parties of the electoral confluence did not know.. The Más País deputy is in the core of trust, he has defended tooth and nail bets such as the universal inheritance that Díaz championed in the campaign, which are not liked in his space.

While the purple ones are taking steps that point to a possible breakup, IU has asked the second vice president to take steps to establish her party as “one more” within the coalition, and to turn it into a “broad front” that guarantees voice and vote to all its members. Errejón's maneuvers are viewed with skepticism among some voices in Sumar, who warn that it is time to generate organization, and not distribute seats.

They are also perceived with distrust by those who do not bless the fact that Díaz has him among his close friends.. Or that he left Podemos to participate in two different elections, regional and general, with two new acronyms, the same year. Or that its subsidiary in the Canary Islands decided to break ties, amidst criticism. With one eye, they observe Errejón's movements, and with another those of Sumar in territories like Euskadi, where the groups that make up Elkarrekin Podemos question that Díaz wants to build his own space, when they already have an “established” brand. Tension grows, but no one expects an explosion until there is a government.