Compromís seeks a consensus regarding Sumar that does not jeopardize the Valencian coalition.
Yesterday's meeting of the Compromís Permanent Committee highlighted the current distance between the leaderships of Més and Iniciativa, the two pillars of the Compromís coalition. The former maintains their executive's unanimous intention to break with Sumar in Congress following the confederal group's decision not to attend its list of those appearing before the DANA commission of inquiry and not to specifically summon Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. For its part, Iniciativa is relying on the equally unanimous support of its governing body to avoid giving in to its demands, which include maintaining the current status quo and the alliance policy: "The conditions are not in place, nor have the agreements been breached," argues the minority coalition party.
Més could not disagree more with this information and believes that the decision not to heed the requests of Valencian deputies on an issue such as the Dana commission is a clear violation of the electoral protocol, which stipulated that on matters affecting the Valencian Community, the position of the entire parliamentary group would be decided by Compromís.
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Two opposing and antagonistic positions make it difficult to reach a consensus that can be endorsed next Monday at the Compromís executive meeting. On Friday, the coalition's Permanent Committee will meet again to try to find common ground, but everything indicates that a final decision will not be reached until next week. However, there is no shortage of optimists: "We all have to compromise to reach an agreement, even if it's not the one we like best, and we will achieve it as we always have." Compromís is a specialist in pushing its internal life to the limit.
Despite this, this consensus does not seem close. Més (and also part of Iniciativa) believes that Representative Àgueda Micó—a member of the majority party demanding to leave the confederal group—cannot continue alongside Sumar in Congress. Iniciativa, on the other hand, assumes that Alberto Ibáñez (its representative in the Lower House) "will not budge."
“Initiative cannot decide what Àgueda Micó does, nor can we [Més] decide what Alberto Ibáñez does.”A circumstance that could lead to each of the two coalition deputies ending up in a different parliamentary group, something that Iniciativa does not see as feasible. "The alliance policy cannot be changed without the consensus of all the parties that make up Compromís," the ecosocialists insist.
"Initiatives can't decide what our representative does, just as we can't decide what their parliamentarian does," argues Més. Despite the negative image this solution would create, all sources consulted maintain that the goal is to ensure "the Valencian coalition is not in danger." There is apparent consensus among Compromís members on this idea.
The problem is that, in the event of a confrontation and a failure to reach an agreement, the crisis has no easy solution. Més can play the card of holding a consultation with the membership, aware that it holds the majority and would impose its decision, but Iniciativa would never accept this, conscious of its inferior position in a global vote. In fact, this is one of the reasons why there is no commitment to endorsing the issues among the membership of the entire coalition, to prevent the majority partner from imposing its opinion.
The crisis with Sumar brings to light the long-simmering tensions between the two souls of the Valencian coalition.Beyond the disagreement over how to relate to Sumar, a parliamentarian from the coalition explained to La Vanguardia , the umpteenth internal crisis has highlighted the differences within the coalition between a party with a clear nationalist spirit and another that places more emphasis on the left-right axis than the national axis. These differences, latent, have always existed within the coalition and emerge when moments of tension arise, whether in the configuration of electoral lists or strategic alliances with other political forces.
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