València (EFE).- The Executive of Compromís has ratified this Friday the agreement of the coalition with Sumar to attend the general elections of July 23, an agreement by which Compromís will be able to designate the people who will occupy positions 1 and 2 for Valencia to the Congress of Deputies, in addition to all the even positions.
This has been confirmed by the spokesmen for the formation Àgueda Micó and Alberto Ibáñez in statements to the media at the Compromís headquarters, to explain that the head of the Alicante list for Congress will correspond to Sumar and that of Castellón will be a person of consensus who does not will belong to either party.
As for the Senate, the first place for Valencia will be chosen by Sumar, while the heads of the list of Castellón and Alicante will be designated by Compromís, in the same way as all the odd positions on the list.
Compromís will also hold primaries next week to choose the people who will occupy these candidacies from a coalition that will be called Compromís-Sumar: Sumem per guanyar.
“Key” moment of “collaborating and cooperating” to “go beyond that bipartisanship”
The general secretary of Més Compromís, Àgueda Micó, has considered that it is “a moment in which it is key and fundamental to collaborate and cooperate to build a common space that can go beyond that bipartisanship that wants to return to the state political scene, and against that reactionary right that wants to limit our rights”.
He has celebrated that the commitment includes the possibility of working together, sharing space on the electoral lists, and has indicated that the possibility of having a Valencian parliamentary group “if it is legally and juridically possible” will be sought.
For the election of the candidates, she stressed that both Més and Iniciativa will open primary processes for this purpose next week and, asked about the possibility of a woman leading the lists, she said that this issue has not yet been addressed.
For his part, Alberto Ibáñez has considered that a “window of hope” opens with the agreement, which seeks to “question not only the traditional Compromís electorate but also the social majority.”
“Bipartisanship can never be a proposal for the future, it is the transformative left that we knew how to read so well in 2015 and that now with Sumar we can read well again,” he stated.
On whether it would be positive if a woman headed the list for Valencia, Ibáñez pointed out that Compromís “has always known how to provide female leadership in historical moments”.
Can we also in the agreement?
As for whether they would like Podemos to join the agreement, he stated that the coalition has “talked” with Sumar and that it is this party that “is responsible for coming together with what ends up being Sumar”, although they are willing to ” cooperate and question the social majority”.
“You always negotiate from serenity, trust and plurality and that always happens by not vetoing anyone, that testosterone policy is not part of the Compromís way of acting”, he assured.
Asked if the terms in which the negotiation has been carried out are an impediment to the incorporation of Podemos, Micó reiterated that his negotiation has been carried out with Sumar and that this organization “is negotiating to reach agreements with other political forces”. a job he has asked to respect.
“The fact that Sumar can reach agreements with other forces will always be a positive thing,” he concluded.