The ‘Errejón case’ precipitates the end of Sumar as a broad front and gives way to a new scenario on the left

That Sumar was on his way to stop being the space that brought together and gave political guidance to all the formations of the alternative left (with the exception of Podemos) was something practically unquestionable in this ideological space.

The condition of possibility of leadership in these cases occurs when all the actors assume this role, and the resignation of Yolanda Díaz of his organic positions in Movimiento Sumar after the failure of the coalition in the European elections had begun to change the scenario.

Since then, the different actors stopped assuming this leadership, and formations such as Izquierda Unida openly asked for a reorganization to implement “democratic mechanisms” that would provide horizontality to a space that since its founding had developed under the influence of the figure of the second vice president of the Government.

The so-called Errejón case has precipitated this process by which Sumar as a “broad front” of the left goes down in history to make room for a new scenario with an uncertain horizon.

The most concrete example of this streamlining of the process has occurred in the parliamentary group of Congress. The void in Sumar’s spokesperson in the Lower House left by Errejón’s resignation has not been resolved with the substitution of one figure for another (as was initially proposed), but rather all parties have assumed the need to reorganize the group as a whole.

The change in the group that precedes the change in space

In this way, not only will a new spokesperson be appointed (who in principle will be a deputy), but they will be reviewed and, predictably, rotated. other Sumar charges both the commissions and the different bodies of Congress and the so-called leadership of the group.

This reorganization, which initially stems from a request from the federal coordinator of IU, Antonio Maíllobarely encountered resistance at the meeting that the group held last Monday to address the Errejón case for the first time at the parliamentary level.

But the changes will not stop there; The Federal Coordinator of IU has recently approved a document in which demand to implement these “democratic mechanisms” and a new method throughout the political space, to make it more horizontal and rebalance the weight of each political party.

Sumar Movement has decided to postpone its assembly, which was to be held in December, due to the Errejón case

The crisis that the Íñigo Errejón scandal has opened has impacted the entire coalition, but, without a doubt, the parties most affected have been Add and More Movement Madrid. In the case of Díaz’s group, this was the formation to which the former leader currently belonged, and it was the vice president and her hard core who chose to give him the spokesperson for the group in Congress.

In the case of the Madrid formation, Errejón was its founder, and it was Más Madrid that introduced him to the Sumar electoral lists in the negotiation between those of Díaz and those of Mónica García for 23J.

With these parties in a clear situation of weakness (in a space completely weakened by this case), it seems practically impossible to recover the idea of ​​the original Sumar. Sumar Movement, for example, was going to celebrate an assembly in December to try to recompose itself after Díaz’s resignation from his organic positions, with the aim of providing himself with a roadmap that would give him a role in the reorganization of the alternative left.

IU maintains its intention to celebrate the first event of the Call for Democracy in November

He Errejón case has caused the party postpone this assemblywhich currently has no date. In November, Izquierda Unida will celebrate the first act of Call for Democracythe forum in which Maíllo’s people want to draw up a roadmap to address the future of the left and how it faces the most urgent current challenges, such as the rise of the extreme right.

Adding as a unifying space for the left had its founding milestone on June 23, when its electoral results allowed it to keep alive the possibility of reissue a progressive Government with the PSOE to avoid an Executive of Feijóo and Abascal. The last straw that overflowed the project’s camel’s back is inevitably linked to the Errejón case. The new scenario that opens up for this space is, today, a mystery.