Sumar has acted moved by the 2019 effect – when the PSOE and Podemos reached an agreement to form a coalition in just 48 hours – and just nine hours after finishing 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 its spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, at noon yesterday. "We call on the PSOE to work from now on to establish a government program and a ministerial structure", said the MEP of the Commons. "We have been working on it since this very morning."
Sumar's initiative is based on the conviction that "there is only one possible investiture: to repeat a coalition government", the spokesman pointed out, and added 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 starting point, not an arrival point". In this sense, he insisted that these are the first elections in which Sumar is running and therefore the results are not comparable to those of the former confederal space of Unides Podemos and will allow us to go further". Urtasun emphasized that Sumar "will unfold politically in the coming years" to be decisive in the coming decade.
Sumar attributes part of the left's success in Sunday's elections to being the force that renounced polarization and contested the narrative that had already been set up 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 a possible majority and it is not Mr. Feijóo's".
This rush to form a Government and get the investiture has led Sumar to immediately start the dialogue with the forces that must form the progressive and plurinational majority and, especially, with Catalan independence: "We believe that for the talks to prosper we must count on the best and for our space it is a luxury to count on someone of the trajectory of Jaume Asens, who has shown in the past his ability to agree", announced Sumar in the early hours of yesterday afternoon. "His knowledge of the Catalan political reality, as well as his good relationship with many of the areas called to understand each other, will make it easier to reach an agreement", pointed out Sumar sources. The commission given to Asens, they explain from the political formation, is "to know the starting position of the Catalan formations to explore the possibilities of reaching an agreement".
Despite the atmosphere of euphoria experienced on Sunday at the headquarters of Sumar, at the Fundació Diario Madrid, and the satisfaction with the results expressed by Urtasun, the executive of Podemos does not share this optimistic assessment of the situation. After the executive meeting, Ione Belarra, general secretary of the lilacs, who won 5 of Sumar's 31 seats, blamed Yolanda Díaz, "whom we chose to widen the space and govern with more force, but Sumar has lost more than 700,000 votes and many seats compared to the worst result of Unides Podemos". Which is not accurate: Unides Podemos, together with commons and Galicia in Common, cast 3.1 million votes in November 2019, and Sumar has collected just 3 million. Belarra applies the votes of Compromís and Més País to the 2019 United We Can result, which is where the 700,000 he alludes to come from. The general secretary of Podemos, in her recorded appearance, believes that Sumar's strategy of "renouncing feminism and making Podemos invisible was a mistake", but she committed to work on the re-editing of the coalition government, with the conviction that, with its five seats, Podemos is "the ideological engine of the political space and of the coalition government".
