Urtasun (Sumar) does not speak of vetoes to Podemos but of "resignations": "No agreement is perfect"

It advances that in the next few days there will be new additions to the lists of the party led by Yolanda Díaz

MADRID, 12 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Sumar's campaign spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, has referred to "resignations" instead of "vetoes" to members of Podemos by Yolanda Díaz's party in order to prepare the lists for the general elections on July 23 and has assured that "no agreement is perfect".

When asked about the interpretation made by the UP spokesman in Congress, Pablo Echenique or the former vice president of the Government Pablo Iglesias in relation to the absence of Irene Montero on the Sumar lists, described as a 'veto', Urtasun has put in value the agreement with 15 progressive formations and has insisted that "there have had to be resignations because no agreement is perfect".

"The best agreements are always those that generate dissatisfaction in some way. This is inevitable," said Sumar's campaign spokesman in an interview on Channel 24 hours, collected by Europa Press.

In line, he has qualified that when the lists are made "it is not a beautiful moment" in the sense that they are "complex exercises". "It is impossible to reach an agreement like the one we have reached without there being no resignations and without generosity on the part of the parties," Urtasun said, once again defending the agreement reached "requested by Spain."

At another point, questioned if there would be any possibility of future movements in the lists for Irene Montero to finally enter, Urtasun has closed the door to this hypothesis, assuring that "in these things you have to be serious."

"There is a period to negotiate, a period in which the negotiation opens, another in which it closes and, indeed, we achieved on the last day in which we could register the coalition and we achieved a broad agreement signed by everyone. For Izquierda Unida, for Podemos and for all the 15 parties (...) therefore, I am convinced that we are going to start rowing in the same direction now," he said.

That said, and after Díaz's announcement of choosing the Spanish ambassador to the UN, Agustín Santos, as number two on the Sumar por Madrid list this Monday, Urtasun has advanced that "in the coming days" there will be more announcements of incorporations of people who were already working in the Sumar groups.

"We want to represent Spain in its diversity, the diversity of its professionals in public health, public education, the Treasury inspectors who guarantee our tax revenue to finance public revenue, our foreign service professionals, but also representatives of workers from precarious sectors that we aspire to represent", he underlined.