Podemos is reduced to 5 deputies in the future Sumar group and Alberto Rodríguez will not return to Congress

IU will have five parliamentarians and sees all its starting positions filled and Sumar is confirmed as the hegemonic force with the most seats

MADRID, 24 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Podemos is affected by the new correlation of forces in the future parliamentary group of Sumar and by losing weight with only five deputies belonging to the purple formation, when in 2019 it was the hegemonic force with 23. For its part, IU sees all its starting positions filled and also achieves five seats.

In turn, the leader of Drago Canarias and former leader of Podemos Alberto Rodríguez is the main figure of the coalition that is left out of Congress, having not obtained the necessary votes to return to the lower house.

With the ballot, Sumar will be the majority force with eight seats, within a parliamentary group marked by the balances in the representation of the different parties that came together in a coalition for 23J.

After the completed scrutiny, Sumar achieved 31 deputies and ranked as the fourth political force, although it preserved its key role for a possible coalition government with PSOE and supported by progressive and multinational forces.

However, the result represents seven seats less than the 38 deputies obtained four years ago separately by Unidas Podemos and the alliance of Más País and Compromís.

In this way, in addition to Díaz, Agustín Santos and Carlos Martínez (Madrid), Rafael Cofiño (Asturias), Marta Lois and Verónica Martínez (Galicia), Lander Martínez (Vizcaya), Esther Gil (Cádiz), Txema Guijarro (Alicante) and Francisco Sierra (Seville) correspond to the quota of the instrumental party. In total, ten minutes correspond to the instrumental party of IU

Meanwhile, Podemos will have its leader and current Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, as deputies, as well as Javier Sánchez Serna (Murcia), Noemí Santana (Las Palmas), Martina Velarde (Granada) and the Organization Secretary, Lilith Verstrynge.

However, the formation has been affected by the bad result of Sumar in the Basque Country and in Navarra, where precisely the heads of the lists held and were considered starting points for the purple ones. Thus, they lose the seats in Guipuzcoa, Álava and Navarra where Pilar Garrido, Guillermo Presa and Idoia Villanueva were respectively candidates.

In this way, the secondary role within the coalition is reflected and it is no longer the hegemonic force it held in 2019, given that of the 35 seats it won in 2019, a total of 23 were associated with the purple party.

For its part, IU gets the five seats that were estimated as starting positions and wins a seat in Malaga (Toni Valero), Seville (Engracia Rivera), Córdoba (Enrique Santiago), Nahuel González (Valencia) and Félix Alonso (Tarragona), although the latter is a shared quota with the 'commons'.

In 2019 the formation won three seats in the elections (that of its leader Alberto Garzón who has not repeated in these elections, Santiago and the former deputy Roser Maestro), but came to have up to five deputies as a result of several resignations in the group.

Precisely, the Catalan confluence maintains a similar weight given that it has four deputies for Barcelona Aina Vidal, Gerardo Pisarello, Gala Pin and Eloi Badia, to which Verstrynge also joins, although as part of Podemos. Also in Girona, Júlia Boada obtained a seat along with the one shared by IU in Tarragona.

Meanwhile, the Más Madrid-Más País quota achieves the expected representation with two seats held by Tesh Sidi and Íñigo Errejón, who were numbers three and four on the list by district of the capital.

For its part, Compromís has two deputies within the future parliamentary group with Águeda Mico and Alberto Ibañez while Més manages to have the seat of the Balearic Islands (Vicenç Vidal), like Chunta with the new deputy Jorge Pueyo.

Finally, Sumar has lost a seat in Castellón and also that of Tenerife, where the candidate was an iconic space figure such as Alberto Rodríguez who will not return to Congress after the loss of his act in 2021 by decision of the then president of the chamber Meritxell Batet, following the Supreme Court ruling against him and who appealed to the Constitutional Court.

Now, one of Sumar's challenges will also be to guarantee the unity of action and the cohesion of a heterogeneous parliamentary group, with even formations integrated within the same discipline.

In the coalition agreement and to avoid leaks, a clause was introduced that established that the forces that did not integrate into the future parliamentary group of Sumar would lose economic resources.