The organization secretary of Movimiento Sumar, Laura Moreno, resigned a few days ago without waiting for the next general assembly of the party to be convened, according to internal party sources confirmed to Europa Press.
Moreno was elected to the Organization Secretariat in April of last year, after Sumar's second assembly, and has formalized her departure before the Coordinating Group, the movement's main leadership body. Specifically, she communicated her decision to the executive on May 25 and made it effective this Monday, given that in September she will return to her position as a Language and Literature teacher.
From the leadership, they detail that, provisionally, the functions of the Organization Secretariat will fall to Fabio Cortese, a member of the executive and coordinator of Sumar in Madrid.
The spokesperson for Sumar in Congress, Verónica Martínez Barbero, indicated on RNE microphones that Moreno left the Sumar executive a couple of weeks ago to return to teaching and that she will remain linked to the project as a militant. "She has made her decision, which we respect totally and absolutely," she stated regarding the information first reported by the newspaper 'El Mundo'.
The organization still has to set the date for its third general assembly, where the renewal of leadership bodies and the updating of the roadmap will be addressed, following the resignation of the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, as the main electoral figurehead and with the intention of re-editing the coalition with IU, Más Madrid, and Comuns.
Since its creation, Sumar has faced several departures from its executive, such as former MEP María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop, former parliamentary spokesperson Íñigo Errejón, writer Elizabeth Duval, and Yolanda Díaz herself as the organic leader of Sumar (although she remains in the leadership as a permanent guest) after the European elections.
The deputy Carlos Martín also left his position as co-coordinator of Sumar, a responsibility that has remained vacant for almost ten months, as the political and electoral agenda was prioritized, and which the party aims to fill in the next assembly. In this way, Lara Hernández remains as the sole acting general coordinator until now.
Sources from Sumar explained months ago that the debate about the assembly revolves around two options: repeating the dynamic of consensus and unity that characterized the two previous meetings or, on the contrary, opening the door to an internal contest between different sensibilities.
In this regard, the possibility of a confrontation assembly is being considered, in which two sectors could compete: one around coordinator Lara Hernández and another linked to the parliamentary spokesperson in Congress.
Martínez Barbero herself has not ruled out, in statements to "RNE", running for the assembly, emphasizing that this decision must be made collectively and that she will be available for whatever the party decides.