The election cycle has arrived prematurely, and political parties have begun to prepare for the coming battle. One of them Add movementIt is the formation led by Yolanda Diaz, which forms the solid core of the Somar coalition, which wants to bring about a qualitative shift on this horizon. To this end, next Saturday it will hold a summit with leaders and activists through which it seeks to redefine its strategy in two areas: the political line – which will be the heart of its messages and program – and the approach to building coalitions for the elections. The goal is to come up with a clear and specific message to attract new and disillusioned voters.
To provide content for this new roadmap, the Somare movement has identified two “priority goals”: first, to regain influence among young people, where the alternative left has always been an important source of votes but has been swept away. Fox In this sector of the population; Secondly, the ambition to mobilize frustrated voters who abstain from voting.
From this starting point, Movimento Somar focuses its new strategy on “reestablishing the welfare state” and promoting “pre-distributive policies.” The latter consists mainly of changing the way the fight against inequality is approached today.
Currently, this goal is addressed exclusively through the redistribution of wealth, once generated, and the provision of specific aid to meet specific needs. However, Movimento Somar’s approach is also to attack inequality by anticipation, going to the structural causes that cause this loss of opportunity before it is realized. For example, ensuring that young people have access to training by providing them with the necessary financial resources to complete their education.
Movimento Sumar Coordinator, Lara HernandezOn Monday, they offered some glimpses of what they are working on Saturday: making some aid policies “universal,” that is, making them accessible to all citizens regardless of their income. There are some intended for all Spaniards, for example, making “public transportation free.” And others that may be for specific sectors of the population or in specific circumstances.
For young people, one of the priority goals of Yolanda Díaz appears, the so-called “Universal Inheritance”, which was one of the star proposals that led to the 2023 elections, which consists of giving 20 thousand euros to all young people from the age of 23 with the idea of investing it in three ways: improving training (master’s degree, languages…), starting a business (individually or with other people) or employment.
Other universal rights that Movimiento Sumar wants to support and expand are parenting benefits for parents or the promotion of “basic income.” “We want to end inequality at birth. Inequality is something that breaks not only the economy, but also democracy, coexistence and the lives of millions of people,” Movimento Somar coordinator said at a press conference.
Re-establishing the welfare state and promoting this kind of ex ante distributive policies would be a great electoral asset as far as the state is concerned. PSOEIn terms of ambition and purpose of what is proposed, in the face of a socialist party accused of being content with “defending” what exists, without the desire to expand, in the face of the general policies of p And Fox.
This approach, as well as the approach of embodying new labor and environmental policies, emerges as the major banners of Yolanda Díaz’s party for the new political cycle, in the absence of what the political congress offers of itself. Because at the heart of the strategic line of the Somar movement will once again be the measures championed by the Ministry of Labor to “work less to live better” without losing wages, as is the expansion of other labor rights such as permits or protection from dismissal.
The second axis of the political conference on Saturday will be about electoral alliances. Since March, when it held its second assembly, the SUMAR movement has expressed its commitment to reorienting the relationship with Podemos and presenting itself again in a coalition of parties of the same caliber as it attended in July 2023. Today this seems impossible, given the veto power used by Parliament. purple For the party of the Second Deputy Prime Minister and her as a candidate.
Despite this obstacle, the Somare movement announced on Monday that it continues to support “a broad coalition and a single candidacy that unites and, above all, gives certainty to the progressive people.” In this aspect, there is no prior information about the goal, but as in everything related to alliances, the devil is in the details. It will be necessary to know whether Movimento Somar wants to put in writing its conditions for negotiation. Not with Podemos, which seems very difficult, but with the rest of the formations with which it shares space and which as a whole aspire to have more power and presence in the future nomination at the expense of Movimento Somar. One of the major internal battles will come in the future.
Izquierda Unida (IU) was very clear in the starting position. The next candidate for the Left coalition must be chosen in a joint primary election. Yolanda Diaz did not contest this election in 2023 and it remains to be seen whether she will do so in the next general election. First of all, because he has not even confirmed that he intends to repeat at the top of the list. Today, this is one of the big questions in the political space, compared to his competitors. PSOE, PP and Vox have their candidates in full gear. If the new Somar repeats with Díaz, there is no epistemological problem, but there will be a problem if the candidate changes and a new voter reference must be constructed from elsewhere.
When asked about this, Hernandez commented on Diaz’s role. “We will talk about names, faces and candidates,” he said. “We understand that politics and the program come first and then everything else.”
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