Sumar proposes six 'face to face' debates for the campaign between Díaz, Sánchez, Feijóo and Abascal

It also raises another with the four main candidates and regulate electoral debates by law

MADRID, 19 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Sumar proposes for the 23J electoral campaign to hold up to six 'face to face' debates between the four main leaders who aspire to the Presidency of the Government: Pedro Sánchez (PSOE), Alberto Núñez Feijóo (PP), Yolanda Díaz (Sumar) and Santiago Abascal (Vox).

Likewise, it proposes holding a four-person debate between these candidacy leaders and also another among the seven largest parliamentary groups in the country, together with a commitment to regulate by law the holding of electoral debates.

On the other hand, Sumar also wants sectoral debates to be organized on some of the main crucial issues for the future of the country and that affect the entire population, with representatives of each of the four largest candidacies.

With this proposal, as they defend, it would help to generate a "fresh and innovative electoral campaign, which allows generating greater interest among citizens, and which promotes participation in the next electoral process."

This morning the leader of Sumar has criticized that the 'face to face' debates only between "two men, in reference to the Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the PP candidate Alberto Feijóo, "does not represent Spain of the 21st century", which is the Spain of women".

As explained by the candidacy led by Díaz, the traditional electoral campaigns have reached "a point of exhaustion" and that the public "is tired" of seeing how it is reduced to a "massive deployment of media and displacements", while the "debate of ideas is reduced to a brief television pill".

"It is time for this country, to strengthen public debate, a fundamental pillar of any democracy, to face electoral campaigns from the field of ideas and proposals, and not from simple staging," the coalition of progressive forces deepens.

In his opinion, in times of "climate emergency and energy scarcity", electoral campaigns must reduce their material impact and deploy "in a much more ambitious way a public debate rich in ideas and proposals".

"The European countries around us dedicate many more hours and efforts to the central debates that define the future of our country, and this is a path that Spain must begin to follow," insists Sumar to emphasize that it is necessary to promote public debate in Spain on what the candidates want to "build" and "not on what they want to repeal".