2023-10-07 19:12:02
The Más País subsidiaries in the different territories will dissolve politically in the coming weeks with the aim of joining Movimiento Sumar, the party that Yolanda Díaz is building and that will soon hold a constituent assembly. Íñigo Errejón’s party thus begins a political process to put its positions, militants and organic structure at the disposal of the second vice president’s new party, just four years after its launch. This movement will not affect Más Madrid in principle: the party led by Mónica García will continue to be an independent force.
The first step was taken this weekend by Más País Andalucía. The leadership of that force, chaired by deputy Esperanza Gómez, has unanimously decided in an assembly this Saturday to begin the process of dissolving politically, although it is still not clear what this integration process will be like in Díaz’s party, which at the moment is still an embryo of a potential new political force that aspires to incorporate citizens disenchanted with the parties.
In practical terms it is a “political” dissolution, but not a legal one, because the party will continue to be part of municipal electoral coalitions and in the regional Parliament, where it is integrated into the group Por Andalucía, of five deputies, along with Podemos, IU, Equo and two Andalusian groups. Sources from the party led by Gómez explain to this newspaper that “there are no differential programmatic or political priority elements between Más País Andalucía and Sumar.” “It makes no sense to maintain a party that says and defends exactly the same thing as another,” they maintain.
“Today, we begin the integration process within the Sumar movement. With this result we have decided that instead of working for the brand, with which we have done it for these three years, we are going to put our strength into movement Sumar, providing it with a base and structure that has yet to be defined. We confirm our predisposition to begin a new cooperative path where integration represents the most efficient way of collaboration and collective construction,” Gómez said this Saturday. after the party Assembly.
After Andalusia, according to sources familiar with the strategy of Errejón’s party, the subsidiaries of that party in Castilla La Mancha, Extremadura, Murcia and Asturias will address similar processes. And later Euskadi and Catalonia will do so. The movement has already been discussed with the second vice president’s team, as confirmed by both parties, and in fact Sumar sent a person to the V Assembly of Más País in Andalusia that was held this Saturday in Córdoba.
In that conclave, the Errejonista party in Andalusia approved the political document drawn up by the Council of Más País Andalucía. This text includes “the predisposition to begin a new cooperative path where integration represents the most efficient way of collaboration and collective construction” to reverse “the trend of fragmentation” that the political space has experienced in recent years.
The announcement of his party’s integration into Sumar opens up several unknowns inside and outside the coalition. Movimiento Sumar is not even an organic reality as such but rather an “instrumental” party—created for the general elections last June—located within a platform with the same name, along with another fifteen actors, including the Más País parent company.
In its statutes, however, Díaz’s platform foresees articulating itself as a party with the holding of an assembly made up of members, who will appoint a coordination table and this in turn a secretariat and a presidency. That event, however, will not take place until after the government negotiations and the investiture debate of Pedro Sánchez. Its launch could therefore be postponed to the end of the year or the beginning of 2024.
Some voices in the political space interpret the rush to make this leap as an attempt to “get ahead of the rest of the parties and have a preferential capacity for maneuver” in Sumar’s future organizational chart. However, while Movimiento Sumar has already announced its plans to form its assembly, other parties in the political space have come out to claim their own identity and propose, as Izquierda Unida has done, the constitution of a broad front in which Yolanda Díaz’s be another party and in which the rest of the forces are recognized and respected.
It is also not clear what Errejón himself will do, who entered the Sumar lists in Congress as part of the Más Madrid quota, but who is disconnected from the organic functioning of the party led by Mónica García and which is now immersed in a new Congress to define your roadmap. Sources close to him claim that this Saturday he came to “support” the decision of the Andalusian subsidiary. “Greeting very affectionately a correct decision. A decision to continue building and to bet on the Sumar Movement,” he said this Saturday in statements to the media.
The leader of Más País left Más Madrid in 2019 to create a state force after the electoral repetition of that year. The decision was sudden and the construction of the match was dazzling. The seat forecasts from the surveys that calculated that disenchanted voters from Unidas Podemos, abstention and also from the PSOE could attract voters, remained at two seats (one for Errejón, another for Verdes Equo) and another for Compromís, with which they attended as a coalition .
The short result left Íñigo Errejón with a changed foot, who aspired to repeat the movement with which a few months ago he had snatched the hegemony of the left from Unidas Podemos. He then began a process of building a state party, with the creation of regional seals throughout these years that have not finished coming together. This process has also overlapped with Sumar’s political deployment since Díaz inherited the leadership of the political space from Pablo Iglesias and began his own political journey.
What does seem clear is that Más Madrid will continue to be an independent group that will not follow in the footsteps of the rest of the territories. The formation led by Mónica García, in fact, is immersed in a new congress that will be held at the end of September and in which the leader of the opposition in the Madrid Assembly aspires to retain her leadership. “Más Madrid is a party with its own projection,” they say from that formation.
In a recent event in which García announced his candidacy, he assured that they would continue to be a reference for progress in Madrid but that they would also lend their shoulder for the country. “That is why we have to go further, to continue growing in an organization that must be more diverse, plural and deconcentrated. We are going to do more to preserve our autonomy and to continue being that benchmark of progress in Madrid and Spain. We are going even further to defend the 100% interests of the people of Madrid and we are helping our country,” he said.
The Andalusian case
One of the territories where his party has achieved greater implantation is Andalusia. The trajectory of this party in its three years of life is dotted with strategic changes conditioned by the multiple electoral calls of this period. This last movement, however, has a lot to do with the gradual loss of power of the founder of Más País, the former leader of Podemos Íñigo Errejón, displaced by the party’s leaders in Madrid—Mónica García and Rita Maestre—with more personal and politics to Yolanda Díaz.
Más País Andalucía, a group related to Errejón, participated for the first time in the elections in the November 2019 general elections, obtaining 56,445 votes, 1.34% of the count. The head of the list for Seville was the former Podemos deputy and former Adelante Andalucía senator, Esperanza Gómez, who left both formations to coordinate Errejón’s party in this community, but did not obtain a seat in Congress.
In October 2021, while the progressive formations in Andalusia were considering forming an alliance for the regional elections to avoid four ballots to the left of the PSOE-A, Más País announced its resignation from running again with its initials in this community, to integrate in Andaluces Levantaos, a newly formed platform of which two other Andalusian parties were part: Andalucía por si and the Andalusian People’s Initiative.
A few months later, this platform fractured with the departure of Más País Andalucía, which became part of another coalition—Por Andalucía—along with other actors that are also part of Sumar: IU, Podemos, Equo, the Andalusian People’s Initiative and Green Alliance.
Now the Council of Más País Andalucía makes an analysis in its document in which it notes the total harmony between this force and the Sumar Movement. “It represents an existential challenge” for the party, he says, because it results in a kind of “superposition or overlapping of two organizations within the same programmatic, discursive and electoral framework.” “The harmony experienced is not far from becoming an identity,” they understand.
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