“To say that the result of the Galician elections has no influence is to lie,” admits a Compromís official. However, he clarifies (and other sources from the Valencian coalition agree on this) it does not alter the roadmap for the European elections on June 9 as they indicate that despite the debacle of 18-F, Sumar is “the ally natural".
Thus, they believe that the weakness shown by Yolanda Díaz in her homeland could take away her “strength when negotiating” and, above all, “dissuade her from the idea of competing in those autonomies where there are already forces rooted in the territory.” . “That is the great lesson of what happened this Sunday in Galicia” and the main concern of Compromís.
However, opinion is not unanimous throughout Compromís. Critics of Bloc i País - current of the majority formation Més Compromís - point out that the results of the Galicians demonstrate the success of the BNG strategy that "has remained firm against the tides", in reference to the different rises and falls of vote of the space that was once occupied by Podemos, Izquierda Unida and, recently, Sumar, which in the July general elections achieved twice as many deputies to Congress as the Galician nationalists.
“The BNG has been resilient and we have gone with everyone... We have sold out to the first one who offered to reformulate the Spanish left, without thinking nationally,” the critics explain. For this reason, they asked three weeks ago - they have achieved more than 10% of the signatures - for a consultation on the pacts in the European elections; a clear warning of his refusal to go with Sumar. “Adding doesn't add up,” they add in case anyone has any doubts about their preferences when it comes to forging alliances.
Sources from the Més Compromís management do not rule out that “some type of consultation” can be made, but when it is clear who they want to agree with and the conditions of the possible agreement; “not before starting to negotiate.”
They admit that the result of the Galician elections - and the presumed result of the Basque ones where Sumar will hardly obtain representation in the regional Parliament - are not the best letter of introduction for the European elections in June, but they point out that a possible agreement with the BNG is very complicated. The Galician nationalists have no intention - from what has been reported to Compromís - of breaking up the coalition that they already formed in 2019 with Bildu and ERC. Two formations that are taboo for Compromís.
Thus, Sumar, they explain, is “the logical alliance” and the “priority” pact if the objective of once again having a Valencian MEP in the European Parliament is to be met. In other words, Sumar is the only alternative if you don't want to go alone; something that would leave the Valencians without options to have a voice in Europe.
However, in Compromís they point out that their main electoral objective is the 2027 elections and to be the only political alternative to the left of the PSPV, without rivals in that political arena. To do this, they need to prevent Sumar from running and they understand that this can be better achieved with close collaboration with Yolanda Díaz (the BNG did not run in the general elections in the Sumar coalition). After the poor Galician result, sources from the Sumar parliamentary group who know the Valencian reality well admitted that in “autonomies with their own language there are already progressive peripheral spaces that must be taken into account.”
Along these lines, they point to La Vanguardia that with strength already established as Compromís we must go towards a “necessary cooperation” and not an electoral competition. They understand that Sumar can contribute in those areas (such as the south of Alicante or important cities in this province) where the left-wing space has potential (as demonstrated in the electoral calls of 2015 and 2019), but political Valencianism has historically had more difficulties to penetrate. As they conclude in Compromís, "we cannot harm each other with experiments that have seen little progress."
