Comuns, IU, Movimiento Sumar and Más Madrid will meet this Saturday in Barcelona in a new joint event to continue consolidating their alliance for the upcoming general elections, under the slogan "A step forward".
The meeting will be attended by the Ministers of Culture, Ernest Urtasun; Social Rights and 2030 Agenda, Pablo Bustinduy; and Health, Mónica García, along with the federal coordinator of IU, Antonio Maíllo, the general coordinator of Sumar, Lara Hernández, and the co-spokesperson for Comuns and Sumar deputy, Gerardo Pisarello.
The event is being held amid a climate of political tension due to judicial investigations affecting the PSOE, in response to which the minority partner in the Government has raised its tone and hardened its discourse, expressing its displeasure with the actions that, in its opinion, the socialists have taken so far.
Thus, this Friday, the federal coordinator of IU, Antonio Maíllo, demanded that the PSOE "clean house" and insisted on the need to assume responsibility for having placed former leaders José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán in positions of maximum relevance.
In the same vein, the Minister of Culture, through a letter addressed to Sumar members, called on the socialists to rise to the occasion and implement firm measures for democratic regeneration.
The event was announced a few days after the Andalusian elections of March 17, in which the Por Andalucía coalition, made up of IU and Sumar, maintained five seats, while the Adelante candidacy consolidated itself as the main reference for alternative left-wing politics at the regional level by obtaining eight seats.
Furthermore, the organization of this meeting comes after the call by the general coordinator of Sumar, Lara Hernández, to bring forward the election of the future person to lead the space and the definition of the electoral brand, given that they do not yet have a candidate or a name to run in the general elections.
Coalition sources indicate that there should be progress on this matter before the summer holidays or, at the latest, at the beginning of the next political term.
So far, two other similar events have been held: one in Seville, in April, in the midst of the Andalusian pre-campaign, and another on February 20, when the four parties with representation in the Government through the minority partner's quota staged their willingness to re-edit the electoral coalition, open to the rest of the allies of the parliamentary group in Congress and with an outstretched hand to the entire state and plurinational alternative left.
Message to the rest of the partners and to Podemos
That message is directed at current partners such as Compromís, Chunta, and Més per Mallorca, but also at Podemos, which broke with Sumar at the end of 2023 and has shown distance from the broad electoral front project for 2027 that the minority partner's formations in the Executive are promoting.
Although in Andalusia it ran together with Sumar and IU, the purple formation maintains a critical stance towards the coalition government and has reinforced its commitment to articulating an electoral tandem between the former Minister of Equality Irene Montero and the spokesperson for ERC, Gabriel Rufián.
The announcement of this new event also coincides with a phase of internal stability in Más Madrid, after the agreement that sealed peace within the organization between the Minister of Health, Mónica García, who will lead the party's list in the next regional elections, and the deputy spokesperson in the Assembly, Emilio Delgado, who will occupy the third position.
Delgado is also among the names being considered as Más Madrid's representatives to integrate the future candidacy for the general elections in the capital.