Opinion polls show that Vox’s party has risen in recent years among the preferences of younger voters, a trend that has long worried the left and that Somare’s movement will work against the rest of the legislature. The formation of supporters of Vice President Yolanda Díaz will draw the road map and renew internal documents to face the next electoral cycle in a political conference that is likely to be held on November 22, two weeks before the start of the electoral campaign in Extremadura. As sources from the party leadership confirmed to El Pais, among the priority axes of the strategy are the political reconnection with young people, addressing the issue of access to housing, the struggle for time to live (with measures such as the regulation of time control already being addressed by the Ministry of Labour), the battle against the climate emergency and the “democratization” of technology.
In the latest 40-decibel measure, Vox appears as the preferred party among 18- to 24-year-olds. Santiago Abascal’s party has the highest percentage of voters here compared to other parties. 31% of young people support the Ultras party, compared to 5% for Sommer, along with the rest of the nationalist parties and ahead of Podemos (1%). Between 25 and 34 years old, the percentage who choose Fox drops to 23%, which is behind those who are undecided or abstained from voting. The addition remains at 3%.
But the party believes that “the return of the Linke Party in the German general elections or the victory of Zahran Mamdani in the municipal elections in New York reveals the presence of young people ready to struggle for change and transformations in the progressive sense.” In recent months, young people have also mobilized in Spain for Palestine or problems such as the housing shortage. The Somar Movement proposes to formulate an “intervention proposal” at its conference, which it will hold in November, towards this category of the population. “To activate young people socially, politically and electorally, it is necessary to challenge them with a strategy that is compatible with their demands, interests and role in society, in a context in which they have been deprived of the desired future horizon,” the party believes, which has not yet revealed more concrete measures.
Two areas of work
Furthermore, the organization distinguishes between two spheres of action: institutional and civil society. They explained that this could involve leveraging the presence in the coalition government and Congress to “accelerate public policies”, “take stock” of what has been achieved and “open country discussions”, but also “adopt a door-to-door approach” or “create synergies” with different actors and expressions of mobilized civil society that work to “build stable coalitions”. “Through this political conference, the Somar movement will adjust its machinery to face the final stage of legislative power. We will leverage every sphere of institutional power to move the country forward,” defends MS Coordinator Lara Hernandez.
Always with an eye on the medium and long term, the Political Conference will also seek to analyse, study and work on its project “for the next decade”, without forgetting two other fundamental challenges: the protection of democratic rights and redistributive policies to combat inequality from the cradle.
The scheduled meeting will be held in Madrid before the regional elections in Extremadura, where the organization has little presence and is likely to externally support the candidacy of Podemos, Izquierda Unida and Alianza Verde. This will also happen in the midst of alliance negotiations in Castile and León and Andalusia, where Podemos is not present at the moment, but the Diaz group is expected to attend.
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