Yolanda Díaz chooses to dispense with Marta Lois in Congress to be Sumar's candidate in Galicia

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, December 26 (EUROPA PRESS) -

The second vice president of the Government and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, will present this Wednesday the candidacy for the Presidency of the Xunta in Galicia, for which her spokesperson in Congress and deputy for A Coruña, Marta Lois, is gaining strength again. the first person he thought of more than a year ago when the movement was formed and who is currently his voice and ears in the parliamentary group.

Marta Lois suggested that her role was currently in the Lower House, a circumstance that gained even more weight with the breakup of the group and the departure of the five Podemos deputies to the Mixed Group. However, its name and its connection with the municipalist tides without being previously attached to any political party would raise the consensus that the space needs in full negotiations for an eventual coalition (at least with Izquierda Unida) which, in any case, must be closed. before January 5 with the electoral call on February 18.

The deputy in Congress could combine her candidacy in Galicia with the preservation of the seat for A Coruña, a possibility that was already taken up in 2020 by the then candidate of Galicia en Común, Antón Gómez-Reino, who finally continued in the Cortes at not getting representation in the regional Parliament.

The search for a candidate in the Sumar space has been precipitated in the last few hours by the electoral call and after the offers to Anova and its spokesperson, Martiño Noriega, were collectively and individually rejected.

Meanwhile, and after the talks broke down due to what happened in Congress and misgivings were shown, in the last few hours the contacts between the partners of the general elections have experienced steps forward, something that has happened in parallel with Podemos Galicia activating its primary process internal, whose deadline for submitting lists ends at midnight this Tuesday.

The Galician Citizen Council of the purple formation has to endorse the lists for Thursday and Friday primaries, in which the one with the most votes will win if there is more than one. In this sense, the sector that faced the current coordinator, Borja San Ramón, announced its intention to articulate an alternative candidacy for this process.

Izquierda Unida-Esquerda Unida also has the final decision pending within its decision-making bodies and plans to submit the contacts to consultations in the next few hours, in this regard, sources consulted acknowledge that the last few hours have allowed for "progress."