Sumar proposes psychologist Alba García Martín as a candidate for lehendakari

Sumar's Basque brand, Sumar Mugimendua, has proposed the psychologist specialized in social intervention Alba García Martín, (Bilbao, 35 years old) as a candidate for the Lehendakaritza, according to sources from Yolanda Díaz's training. The candidacy has been sent to the rest of the political organizations with which a coalition is negotiating to jointly participate in the next Basque elections, still undated, which must be held before July 12. Both the PNV, Bildu, PSE and PP have renewed their headliners with respect to the previous elections, in 2020.

Alba García Martín has a master's degree in Psychology of Social Intervention, a field in which she has worked in recent years, indicate the same sources, who describe her as a “committed feminist and anti-racist activist” and highlight that she has collaborated with Basque social movements. and who is knowledgeable about regional institutions.

García Martín ran as number three on the Elkarrekin Podemos list for the Mayor of Bilbao in the municipal elections of May 2023, where the party won two council positions, reports José M. Abad.

Sumar Mugimendua has brought García Martín's candidacy proposal to the negotiation table between parties, “in the conviction that she is the best candidate for the coalition that we want to build with the rest of the parties for the 2024 Basque elections,” sources say. of training, which appeals to the appointment as an opportunity for “double renewal”: “Of candidates and, also, generational.” “García Martín is the ideal candidate to represent the whole of our political proposal and accompany the rest of the candidates who will be a sample of contemporary, diverse and plural Euskadi,” highlights the formation, which will compete for the first time in regional elections. Basques.

Sumar considers that the candidacy responds to a “change of cycle” in Euskadi and that it responds to a “citizen demand.” “Sumar Mugimendua is committed to giving the floor to generations of young people who, like Alba García Martín, know first-hand the political experience because they have felt challenged to participate actively in social movements, associations and political parties.” The training denounces that young Basques “have seen how their living conditions, their jobs and their opportunities have only worsened at the hands of policies that are not in tune with their aspirations and projects, nor with many of their concerns: change climate, affordable housing, participation of women in all areas.”

García Martín “has worked and collaborated with groups of older people, migrants or prisoners from different associations,” continue the same sources, who support the candidacy by understanding that it represents “a clear commitment to generational renewal” and “as an example of the Sumar Mugimendua's vocation for feminist policies, which must become, together with the fight against the climate crisis and its consequences, the axis of a political program that is aimed at solving citizen problems with the necessary proposals to give them a fair response in social key”.

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