IU Andalucía defends the "autonomy" of Sumar's partners but sees it as "unfeasible" to translate it into its structure in Congress

SEVILLA, 6 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The spokesman for the political leadership of IU Andalucía, Ernesto Alba, has claimed the "autonomy" of the organizations that have come together around the Sumar project for the last general elections on July 23, but has warned that it is "unviable" that this autonomy can be extrapolated in some way to the structure of the parliamentary group that its 31 elected deputies form in Congress once it is constituted, on August 17.

In statements to Europa Press, the also general secretary of the Andalusian Communist Party (PCA), Ernesto Alba, has spoken in this way after, after 23J, the spokesman for United We Can in Congress during the legislature now finished, Pablo Echenique, affirmed that Podemos will exercise its "political autonomy" within Sumar, as he predicted that other parties of the regionalist coalition would do.

Ernesto Alba pointed out that "with this debate there are many fireworks", after which he stressed that "all the political organizations that make up the space" of Sumar have autonomy, while all of them "have their own" decision-making spaces organic", and the confluence led by Yolanda Díaz at the national level "has to have and equip itself with democratic mechanisms so that, in some way, each organization, from that autonomy, expresses its opinions, as it cannot be otherwise", has added.

The leader of IU Andalucía has argued that among the organizations that share the "common space" of Sumar there must be "a unity of action" on the part of that coalition, something that "does not mean that each organization does not have its autonomy", as he has defended .

To the question of whether this autonomy could be reflected in some way within the parliamentary group, Ernesto Alba replied that "in the structure of the group it is not viable", because "you cannot set up your own group" within it. "You can go to the Mixed Group, but that is not the role or the moment in which we find ourselves", Ernesto Alba continued to reason, who has defended that "the autonomy of political organizations is to have their own debates, their own positions", and raise them "democratically" within the space of Sumar.

However, he has remarked that, "after the internal debate" between the members of Sumar, "the different actors that make up" this space must "have a unique position and mark the unity of action", and in this line he has said that he trusts "in which all the political forces are going to be responsible in that sense".

On the next steps that, in his opinion, Sumar must take after 23J to form a structure as a political organization, the representative of IU Andalucía has maintained that the "fundamental priority" that exists "right now" for "leftist forces, progressive and democratic" of Spain is to "constitute a government and give stability to this country.

"That is where all the forces have to be focused", and that "means that the highest priority right now is to dialogue and do a lot of politics to constitute the Government", Ernesto Alba stated before adding that, "obviously", also " we will have to see how Sumar is being constituted or is being organized", taking into account that until now the process was "very fast with the electoral advance" agreed by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, calling the general elections for the 23rd of July just after the local and regional events on May 28.

Ernesto Alba has ventured that Sumar "will have to face the objective for which it was born", that of being "a political movement capable of bringing together all the political organizations in which we are all comfortable, and that is also capable of opening" the space "in some way for the integration of civil society to widen" it.

"We will see how this process will develop, "but the priority right now has to be the constitution of the Government", an objective "where all the strength must be put and, secondly, to see how this political movement is articulated so that everything the world we remain comfortable in it", has had an impact.

On the other hand, questioned about the process that was followed to form the Sumar lists for 23J, marked by accusations from Podemos of "vetoes" leaders such as the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, so as not to have them as candidates, Ernesto Alba has justified that "the question of the lists and the candidacies always generates some noise in the organizations" and in them "tensions occur", and "there may be parties that are not entirely satisfied".

Having said this, he has defended that Sumar's "fundamental objective" was to "gather the maximum number of votes" on 23J, and "we did so with 15 political forces", beyond the fact that "in negotiations you always have to, somehow , stage something", as the IU Andalucía spokesperson has qualified before adding that in their space they are "happy with the result" of an organization like Sumar whose objective was "to widen the political space with 15 political organizations inside".

On the other hand, Ernesto Alba has valued the weight that the deputies of Andalusian origin will have within the next parliamentary group of Sumar, representing around 20 percent of the total, contributing six of its 31 elected deputies.

Along these lines, he has highlighted the "good results" of Sumar in Andalusia, where "we have resisted" with those six deputies, although he has defended that "the focus should not be placed" on the "quantitative" weight of those parliamentarians, but in the "important role" that this autonomous community must play in the "fundamental objective" that Sumar proposes to promote "a new country".

In this sense, he stressed that "a new country is not understood" or "facing the challenges that Spain needs in 15 or 20 years without overcoming the needs and challenges that Andalusia has". "If you want to create a new country, you have to focus on the problems and challenges that Andalusia has", she has proclaimed along these lines.

"From a political point of view, this legislature is the time for Andalusia", which "has to command and set political agendas", has also defended Ernesto Alba, who in this regard has cited some of the "challenges" that must be faced in the most immediate horizon and that concern this autonomous community, such as "climate change" and the "desertification process" suffered by Andalusia.

"If you want a new country that takes care, in climatic terms, of the natural environment with the challenges that the issue of climate change has right now, you have to focus, to begin with, in Andalusia", the leader of the IU and the PCA stated before to conclude that "from the political agenda is where Andalusia must be placed in the next Council of Ministers".