Never before was losing 7 seats associated with so much joy, but this Sunday nervousness has given way to euphoria, until taking over Sumar's headquarters. With more than 95% of the votes counted, Yolanda Díaz's party saves the furniture, solely because of the context. Although it would be behind Vox, and one of its challenges was to be the third force, and despite the worsening of Pablo Iglesias' results in 2019, the right does not add up to form a government. Another thing is that the left manages to reissue the coalition, two seats below the previous result of PSOE and Unidas Podemos. They would require the support of ERC, EH Bildu, PNV and PDeCat, and the abstention of Junts. A devilish scenario.

The uncertainty was such that Sumar's candidate did not enter the venue until 11:00 p.m., amid applause, cheers, and shouts of “President!”. Inside waited Ione Belarra, Mónica García, Alberto Garzón and Íñigo Errejón, leaders of the parties that backbone the confluence. The applause, despite having achieved 7 seats less than Unidas Podemos, Compromís and Más País in the last elections, came after a night that began with very long faces, according to the polls published after the polls closed.. Sumar is holding up well and appreciates some improvement after the last week of the campaign, although it is not the result that just a month ago he aspired to achieve.

Díaz remains two seats behind Vox, whom he wanted to surpass, but while Abascal's party drops 18 seats, they lose 7 minutes. Everything, yes, after a historic union of parties with crossed hatreds and grudges, with Podemos playing a very low role to defend the candidacy of which it is a part, and after several darts from Pablo Iglesias. They have not managed to mobilize everything expected, and they add less than the block on the right, but they have managed to turn a very black scenario around.

The left to the left of the PSOE had never achieved such a low result since 2015. However, the fact that his partner has exceeded all expectations gives Díaz oxygen so that his request for an “amnesty on the left” does not fall on deaf ears. As long as there is an option to reissue the coalition, the margin for Irene Montero and Podemos to settle accounts is narrowing.