The far-left, scattered and feuding, are once again under the same roof: Kudos to Yolanda Díaz and her Movimiento Sumar.
Opinion from El País here, ‘Sumar starts. It had never happened before in the more than 40 years of Spanish democracy that the various territorial, alternative and environmental lefts found the harmony and the political motivation to concur jointly in general elections’. Sixteen parties, including Podemos, are in coalition.
From 20Minutos here: The Podemos leader Ione Belarra will be fifth on the list for Madrid, whereas both Irene Montero (the ‘Only Yes Means Yes’ current Minister for Equality considered these days to be a liability) and wheelchair-bound Pablo Echenique are out. Podemos politicians will lead the Sumar lists in Ávila, Badajoz, Cáceres, Guadalajara, Palencia, Segovia and Teruel.
elDiario.es notes that ‘The deal means that the various parties will have their candidates appear in province-lists more or less to the satisfaction of all, while being under the party-brand of Sumar. It is none the less true to say that coalition negotiation is rarely an admirable spectacle. If people knew how the sausage was made, they would not consume it with the same enthusiasm. There are things that it is better not to look closely at… (!)’.
From El Español (news-letter): ‘The Sumar coalition is born mortally wounded when the hard core of Podemos was sacrificed without ceremonies. Yolanda Díaz will have a hard time smoothing things out in just over a month, but the humiliation of the bruises has no going back’. Their headline: ‘40% of Podemos voters will not vote for Sumar’. If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride: Scottish proverb.
Two groups seem angry about the defenestration of Irene Montero. Podemos of course is upset to lose its star (she’s also the wife of Pablo Iglesias, the founder of the party), and then the media and parties to the right: the golden opportunities lost in the coming weeks to attack Sumar through the unpopular ex-minister!
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