What happened in Galicia will not condition, at least for now, Sumar's roadmap in Euskadi where his deputy for Vizcaya, Lander Martínez, will continue negotiating from this week a possible coalition with Podemos in view of the next Basque elections : "The best thing for the progressive space is that there is a single broad candidacy. We have to facilitate that all parties are represented and welcomed for the elections to the Basque parliament," he said after the bases of the purple formation in Galicia overthrew the pre-agreement signed with the confederal space.
Martínez has admitted that "the future" in Galicia "cools certain elements of the negotiation" and forces us to "redo some of them", although he has avoided specifying the extremes to be resolved in the face of elections that have not yet been dated but are scheduled for the first semester of 2024.
"We will continue working to compose this broad candidacy," he insisted, committing to "make it easier for all parties to be represented and welcomed," he stated as a New Year's resolution. Although he has not hesitated to delimit each person's responsibilities by pointing out that Podemos's decisions to go to the Mixed Group in the Congress of Deputies or to refuse the coalition in Galicia are "a particular path that corresponds to them."
Martínez, on the other hand, has linked the formation of the candidacy to the implementation in the Basque Country of Movimiento Sumar, the party led by Yolanda Díaz, without the other coalition formations for the general elections and that share a parliamentary group in Congress. "We are betting on the constitution of our own Basque subject in the future," she explained, detailing that "this forces us to define a series of founding political elements," in the sense of foundational.
Yolanda Díaz's strong man in Euskadi, and former general secretary of Podemos in the autonomous community, understands that Basque citizens have made a commitment to Sumar and "we have to live up to it."
