Sumar has acted motivated by the effect of 2019 – when PSOE and Podemos reached an agreement to form a coalition in just 48 hours – and just nine hours after the end of the count, he was already at work to set the conditions for the revalidation of the coalition government as soon as possible. This was explained by his spokesperson, Ernest Urtasun, at noon yesterday. "We summoned the PSOE to work from now on to constitute a government program and a ministerial structure" said the MEP of the commons. "We are already working since this morning in this regard."
Sumar's initiative is based on the conviction that "there is only one possible investiture: to repeat a coalition government," said the spokesman, adding that "Mr. Feijóo and Vox do not have a majority to constitute an investiture and therefore there is only one possible majority," he repeated. Urtasun confessed that in Sumar there is satisfaction with the results, which are "a point of departure, not of arrival". In this sense, he insisted that these are the first elections that Sumar has run for and therefore the results are not comparable to those of the old confederate space of United We Can "and they will allow us to go further." Urtasun stressed that Sumar "will unfold politically in the coming years", to be decisive in the next decade.
Sumar attributes part of the success of the left in Sunday's elections, for having been the force that has renounced polarization and has challenged the story that was already configured about the results: “We said it: the campaign script has been changed, offering an exciting country project. The script on the right could be changed, now there is only one possible majority and it is not that of Mr. Feijóo ”.
This rush to form a government and lift the investiture has led Sumar to immediately begin dialogue with the forces that must make up the progressive and plurinational majority and, in particular, with the Catalan independence movement: "We believe that for the talks to prosper we have to have the best and for our space it is a luxury to have someone like Jaume Asens, who has demonstrated his ability to agree in the past," Sumar announced early yesterday afternoon. "His knowledge of the Catalan political reality, as well as his good relationship with many of the spaces called to understand each other, will make it easier to reach an agreement," sources from Sumar pointed out. The assignment made to Asens, they explain in the political formation, is "to know the starting position of the Catalan formations to explore the possibilities of reaching an agreement."
Despite the euphoric atmosphere experienced on Sunday at the Sumar headquarters, at the Diario Madrid Foundation, and the satisfaction with the results expressed by Urtasun, the Podemos executive does not share his optimistic assessment of the situation. After the meeting of the executive, Ione Belarra, general secretary of the purples, who have won 5 of Sumar's 31 seats, held Yolanda Díaz responsible, "whom we chose to widen the space and govern with more force, but Sumar has left more than 700,000 votes and many seats compared to the worst result of United We Can". What is not exact: Unidas Podemos, together with los comunes and Galicia En Común, cast 3.1 million votes in November 2019, and Sumar has collected just 3 million. Belarra applies to the result of United We Can in 2019 the votes of Compromís and Más País, hence the 700,000 to which he alludes. The general secretary of Podemos, in her recorded appearance, believes that Sumar's strategy of "renouncing feminism and making Podemos invisible has turned out to be a mistake" but she promised to work on the reissue of the coalition government, convinced that, with its five seats, Podemos is "the ideological engine of the political space and of the coalition government."
