Finally, pink will not be worn in the Galician Parliament. Sumar suffered a major setback yesterday in its first regional test, showing that the theses of the plurinational, left-wing group did not seduce either the nationalist or the progressive voter. Despite hoping to win two seats in the provinces of Pontevedra and A Coruña, the candidacy of the confederal space led by Marta Lois succumbed to the clamp that BNG and PSOE had just created on the left flank during the last campaign debate.
The good results achieved in the July general elections (178,691 votes) made Sumar dream not only of entering the Galician chamber but of being the key force for political change. But its meager 1.89% of the vote (27,691 ballots), with 98.5% counted, destroyed both scenarios by falling far below even the 3.9% that Galicia en Común achieved in 2020.
The count leaves the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, touched, both by the leadership she holds in the party and by the indisputable effort that the Galician has put in, pouring herself into the first person in half a dozen long rallies with which she hoped to be, once and for all, for all, prophet in his land.
Election day leaves much to analyze and much to decide. Starting with Lois's future. Sumar's former spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies put aside her national career to lead a list that lacked a reference candidate. And now, after “an unmitigated defeat” that, in part, he attributed to an express campaign in which “he lacked time to reach all of civil society,” Díaz's right-hand man has been left without a seat even in the Chamber Not even in the Galician Parliament.
But that's not the end of it since Sumar's specific weight is called into question in the midst of the founding process. In July, the second vice president managed to attract groups such as Más Madrid, los Comromís or Compromís, among others, to configure a “political artifact” with which to amplify at the national level the strength that each of them had in their respective territories. But seeing Sumar's zero returns in Galicia, the debate to delimit the quotas in the future national leadership that will be established in March aims to be turbulent.
And if IU already complained last week about how small the portion of the pie that had been pre-assigned to him was, the rest will not take long to do so seeing that Díaz's personalism when directing Sumar threatens to seize the engine even before make your foundation official.
The leader of the confederal space will, therefore, have to give up positions. Otherwise, what could be in danger is no longer the construction of Sumar as a party but, directly, the parliamentary group of the Government partner. And who knows if the voting discipline in Congress would also do so, compromising the duration of the legislature.
