The Sumar Movement (MS), founded by the second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, had been waiting for Saturday’s event in Madrid for weeks, creating anticipation, but last Thursday Díaz had to change his speech. “It was a turning point, in the morning we learned that the conservative majority of the Supreme Court condemned an innocent man for having defended transparency from hoaxes”, he began his speech this morning at the College of Surveyors in the capital. Díaz raised the tone of his public assessments of the sentence against the state attorney general, Álvaro García Ortiz, convicted of revealing secrets, and accused part of the judiciary of “suspending its constitutional functions to intervene in politics” against the progressive government.
“He is innocent and has been wrongly accused,” the second vice president blurted out at a political conference held today where the party gathered its best-known faces to make the message sound loud and clear. The training transformed a small room in the College of Surveyors, attended by more than 100 people, into the place to host its policy forum.
“I have followed this process in silence, with respect, but I cannot help but be amazed. They announced a sentence whose evidentiary basis we do not know today,” said the vice president. Díaz also accused the PP of “wanting to dominate the General Council of the Judiciary to influence the political life of our country” and responded to the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso: “In his speech he did not ask for the dismissal of the FGE, but the resignation of the president of the Government. They are going against the Government by completely destabilizing one of the powers.”
Before concluding her speech, the vice president called for the mobilization of progressive society: “Let’s take democracy into our hands. (Conservatives) are giving their all, we saw it on Thursday. Have no doubts” and asked them to come out and defend their rights.
Those of Yolanda Díaz aspire to recover their political weight in the space located to the left of the PSOE, now marked by uncertainty and serious doubts about the possibility of reconstructing a joint candidacy, like the one obtained in 2023. A gamble threatened by the break with Podemos and the advance of the right as the polls show.
The machine was set in motion to relaunch the brand and face the last stretch of the legislature. The meeting in Madrid takes place before the regional elections in Extremadura, a territory where the organization has little support, which is why it will support the candidacy of Unidas por Extremadura led by Podemos leader Irene de Miguel, regardless of whether they are not in the candidacy or not. Also on the horizon is the formation of alliances for the elections in Andalusia and Castilla y León which will be held in 2026.
During the day the party organized a central event in which the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, participated; the Minister of Culture and spokesperson of the Sumar Movement, Ernest Urtasun; European Green Party co-spokesperson Vula Tsetsi; Sumar MEP, Estrella Galán; and the general coordinator of the Sumar Movement, Lara Hernández. At the end, a closed-door debate will take place on the Resolutions that will update the political strategy.
