United Left (IU) announced last night that accept the Sumar’s proposal to occupy fourth place in his candidacy for the european electionsbut at the same time he has decided suspend his participation in the management of the organization led by Yolanda Díaz.
This decision has been a consequence of the Basque election results on Sunday, in which Díaz’s team obtained a seat, far from expectations that the parties that make it up had.
In fact, IU already announced throughout this Monday that I did not rule out opening a debate about his relationship with Sumar in the next federal assembly of this formation and attributed the “bad results” to the division and the inability of Yolanda Díaz’s coalition to unite the space.
In a statement made public this Monday, Izquierda Unida explained that fourth place “is not the position he deserves”but “the working class and the future of the transformative left they don’t deserve more division and demoralization in the current moment of reactionary advance throughout Europe“.
At the executive meeting held this afternoon, IU has finally decided accept the proposal so that Manu Pinedahis candidate chosen in primariesoccupy the fourth place in the candidacy joint.
IU has explained that the relationship with Díaz’s party will be a central debate “in the exercise of collective reflection during the assembly process.”
“We will continue working to improve the agreement until the last minute“, Izquierda Unida announced, that it will carry out “its own campaign, with its own profile, image and proposals.”
IU will compete with Sumar in the European elections
The training has explained that The relationship with Sumar will be a central debate “in the exercise of collective reflection during the assembly process of Izquierda Unida”, to recover “the maximum presence in all areas, including the institutional one.”
And while this debate is going on, Izquierda Unidos has announced that it will not participate in the party’s bodies until the celebration and decision adopted by its Federal Assembly.
Díaz’s party has avoided self-criticism about the Basque elections despite the reproaches of Izquierda Unida, which attributes “the bad results” to the division and the inability of the coalition to bring together spacewho only got one seat and it was precisely that of the representative of Izquierda Unida.
The candidate for lehendakari, Alba García, the bet of Díaz’s party, has not been able to win the seatbut the party spokesperson, Ernest Urtasun, has insisted at all times during a press conference in Espacio Rastro that their goal was to be in the Basque institutions and they have achieved it.
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