Sumar believes the debate on Montero is legitimate but remembers Podemos: the pact is closed and the coalition is in another phase

Urtasun demands that the PSC and ERC sit down to seek a three-party agreement for the left to retain Barcelona

MADRID, 15 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Sumar's campaign spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, pointed out this Thursday that the debate on the presence of Irene Montero on the coalition lists is "legitimate", since he considers it normal that there are people who would have liked to see the Minister of Equality, excluded. Although he has specified that in order to reach agreements there must be "generosity and resignations", stressing that the pact is closed and the left-wing coalition focused on the electoral campaign.

Urtasun, in statements to TVE, collected by Europa Press, has expressed that it is within logic that there are people in favor of the leader of Podemos appearing on the lists, as there may also be others who want the Minister of Consumption and leader to be from Izquierda Unida, Alberto Garzón, who has given up running, or that IU had more candidates, has equated.

"All these debates are logical, but it is also necessary to understand that in order to make an agreement of this type there must be generosity, there must be resignations", proclaimed Urtasun, who has vindicated the "broad agreement" reached between fifteen progressive formations to go to the polls around Sumar: "He is the one that allows us to win."

The spokesman for Vice President Yolanda Díaz's party has wondered at this point what electoral conditions and prospects the coalition parties would be in now if they had not signed a pact, remarking that it has been possible thanks to "the generosity of everyone."

Asked, therefore, if his answer was a definitive 'no' to Montero finally entering the lists, Urtasun has stressed that the agreement is "closed" with the "best candidates" and the "best brand".

"Now we are in another phase, now we are going to campaign and try to convince a majority of Spaniards to give us confidence to win a progressive majority to continue applying the best progress policies," he said.

And asked who will be the head of Sumar's list for Barcelona and if it will be him, Urtasun has said that his role is to be the spokesman for the party throughout the country, at the same time that he has advanced the announcement about the 'number one' in that province will be done in the next few days.

At the same time, he has indicated that Díaz is willing to debate on television with other candidates in the face of the general elections and has said that the elections are not lost for the left, which has to win to avoid a "dantesque" scenario like the one of Valencia, alluding to the pact between PP and Vox to govern the region together.

Urtasun has also ruled on the PP's offer to the PSC to facilitate the Mayor of Barcelona if they leave out the current mayoress, Ada Colau. Thus, he has indicated that in the commons -a space to which he himself belongs- they are "perplexed" with this debate and before the reluctance of ERC and the socialists for a three-way pact.

For the spokesman, the three left-wing parties have the "obligation" to reach an agreement and from the commons, he has remarked, they will not give up their efforts until Saturday, the date of the constitution of the city council, so that a progressive majority is possible.

He has therefore encouraged ERC and PSC to reconsider their position, so that the PP is not the one who sets the agenda or has control of the city in its hands, he has cried verbatim.

"It is unusual that, with Barcelona being a city that continues to be on the left, because the electorate has given a great majority of the left in the last elections, neither the Esquerra Republicana nor the PSC are willing to sit down with us to make an agreement to three", it is finished.