The Sumar Coordinating Group has agreed this Sunday to hold a political conference on March 29 and 30, 2025 and, with this, postpones its second congress, which was initially going to be held between December 14 and 15 of this year. From the training they have explained that they have made this decision due to the current situation, where managing the effects of DANA and citizen protection measures are now the priorities.
Sumar, as his spokesperson and Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, has previously stated, has conveyed his affection to all the victims and demands that responsibilities be held accountable for the deaths of more than 200 people. Urtasun has claimed that the president of the Valencian Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, must resign and if he does not listen to the “cry” of the Valencians in the demonstration held yesterday, it will be the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who removes him.
The Coordinating Group, the highest executive body of Sumar, has also positively valued the “quick management” and the response to the complaints of alleged sexual harassment against the former parliamentary spokesperson Íñigo Errejón, by immediately demanding his resignation.
“Sexist violence cannot be part of any space and we must continue taking steps to eliminate it from any area of society, including politics,” he concluded.
Errejón was the coordinator of the political presentation
At the end of October, the group already indicated that the congress event was going to be postponed, as the collegiate coordinator had already postulated before the Errejón case broke out. One of the members of that interim coordinator and general secretary of the parliamentary group, Txema Guijarro, explained that his criterion was to rethink the terms and deadlines of the assembly.
It also happened that Errejón was in charge of coordinating Sumar’s political presentation for that conclave, which is the most important document and which was now “orphaned” with the departure of the former spokesperson. The other presentation, the organizational one, is entrusted precisely to the Secretary of Organization of Sumar, Lara Hernández.
On September 28, the Coordinating Group set the date for the second assembly for mid-December, with the idea that it would have a strong political component, ideologically rearm itself and define its new organic structure. Quote that with today’s decision it is postponed to next year.
In fact, there were already certain unknowns about that assembly, such as whether it was going to serve to elect a new general coordinator once the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, resigned from that position after the Sumar debacle in the general elections of 9J.
After this year’s bad electoral cycle, Sumar has gone from aspiring to be an umbrella of formations to creating a table with allied parties such as IU, Más Madrid, ‘Comunes’ or Verdes Equo, based on a model of horizontality and standing equality.
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