The keys to Sumar: the 15 parties, how the lists are distributed, the face of Yolanda Díaz on the ballot…
The daunting task of gluing together the thousand broken pieces of the alternative left to make a whole has been agonizing.. not to say crazy. The result is a coalition led by Yolanda Díaz and which brings together fifteen formations that come together amid strong tensions and quarrels.. The candidacy will generally be called “Sumar” throughout Spain, with some exceptions, so the name of Podemos disappears completely. Likewise, the face of the vice president will be stamped as a logo on the ballot to help combat confusion or ignorance of the name.
He has fled from unifying denominations -such as United We Can or For Andalusia- or presenting a soup of acronyms on the ballot. The coalition will use the name “Sumar” in its campaign symbols, such as posters..
Under the umbrella of this new electoral brand, the following parties will compete: Movimiento Sumar -the instrumental party created by Díaz to sign-; Can; United Left (IU), where the PCE- is embedded; More Madrid and More Country; You compromise; Catalonia in Comú; Chunta Aragonesista, AraMés (Balearic Islands) and their brands; Greens-Equo; Canary Islands dragon tree; Batzarre (Navarre); Green Alliance; Asturian Left and Andalusian People's Initiative.
This will be the logo of the ballot.
One of the big issues to be resolved has been the electoral lists. Many parties, many interests and many requests. As for Podemos, the news is that Irene Montero and Pablo Echenique have definitely been left out of the lists.
The presence of the purple ones is reflected in eight theoretical starting positions in the case of repeating results similar to those of November 2019. They are number five for Madrid, number four for Barcelona; Ione Belarra will occupy the Madrid position, just behind Íñigo Errejón. The place in Barcelona will go to the Organization Secretary, Lilith Verstrynge.
Podemos also achieves number ones for Álava (Roberto Uriarte), Granada (Martina Velarde), Guipúzcoa (Pilar Garrido), Navarra (Idoia Villanueva), Murcia (Javier Sánchez Serna) and Las Palmas (Noemí Santana).
The Madrid constituency has been the great headache because it is the most symbolic square and because it will be the one that a priori distributes the most seats for deputies in space. More Madrid has claimed to be the hegemonic force in this region and has achieved half of the foreseeable starting positions, discounting the one held by Yolanda Díaz. He takes positions three (the Saharawi activist Tesh Sidi), four (Íñigo Errejón), seven and ten. Sumar has not revealed which independent it will place as number two.
On the other hand, and since this is a matter of great concern due to the presence of Podemos in the coalition, even more so after the recent example given in the 28-M elections, Más Madrid guarantees to control the campaign in a strategic enclave and great impact. There will be a campaign address corresponding to Madrid in which Más Madrid will hold “the address collegiately” with Sumar.
Before the corpse of Podemos
Now yes: the burial of the ponytail
IU has had its own internal tension to award the positions that it has negotiated with Sumar. Alberto Garzón resigned a week ago from appearing on the lists to “promote the renewal of faces”, but his role was supposed to be filled by the spokesperson for the Executive, Sira Rego. However, yesterday it was surprising that his step was also announced next door under the justification of “facilitating the presence of colleagues from other territories on the lists”. It so happened that the PCE had been pushing hard for Enrique Santiago to be the “federal reference for IU and PCE” in Sumar's candidacy.
IU leads the lists of Málaga and Córdoba and is number two in Seville. It also shares Tarragona in quota with the common. Likewise, it heads Huelva, Jaén, Valladolid, La Rioja, Cuenca, Huesca, Soria and Zamora. In the Madrid constituency it is ranked nine.
One of the pacts that surprisingly took longer was the one reached with Catalunya en Comú, the force led by Ada Colau. But it was due to the drag that generated tensions with Podemos, which had its Catalan derivative for having reserved position four for Barcelona.
Sumar's pact with Compromís has substance. Well, it has been one of the great fires also with Podemos. The Valencian party achieves its main objectives: it will occupy the first two positions for Valencia and will place its brand in the name of the candidacy, which in the Valencian Community will be called “Compromís-Sumar: sume per guanyar”. This is an exception. Sumar will correspond to the heads of the list for Alicante and Castellón. For the Senate, the distribution is reversed, reports Noa de la Torre.
In Aragon, Chunta has agreed that number one for Zaragoza is his. It is the position that Pablo Echenique previously held, of which Podemos is silent about his future. CHA has informed that it will announce the name of its candidate in a few days but it is already celebrating the return to Congress of the “Aragonese agenda”.
In the Canary Islands, the figure of Alberto Rodríguez emerges as a foreseeable candidate for Tenerife thanks to the pact of his formation, Drago Canarias, who was the earliest riser of all.