Sumar opens the way to a new stage completely disassociating Yolanda Díaz from the leadership, renewing its leadership

After suffering a serious internal crisis, the Movimiento Sumar party celebrates this Saturday the assembly that will completely close the cycle of its founder and first leader, Yolanda Díaz, whose name disappears from the new leadership and they will renew their leadership. The new leaders who will be elected in this assembly will be Sumar's spokesperson in Congress, Verónica Martínez Barbero, and the Secretary of State for Social Rights, Rosa Martínez, by heading the only candidacy presented for the coordinating group, the party's highest governing body.

Both will replace Lara Hernández, who on July 1 announced that she was leaving the party and denounced being a victim of a "smear campaign" by the critical sector. These internal tensions, dragging on for months, led to the convening of this assembly, with which Movimiento Sumar will try to overcome its serious crisis and inaugurate a new stage.

The current second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor founded Movimiento Sumar in 2023, with the aim of bringing together the forces located to the left of the PSOE, and took the reins of the party until her resignation in 2024 due to the poor results of the European elections. In the previous assembly, in March 2025, Yolanda Díaz was relieved at the head of the coordination by Lara Hernández and Carlos Martín, however, she remained within the leadership. However, on this occasion, Yolanda Díaz will completely disassociate herself from the organic affairs of Movimiento Sumar, as she does not appear in the only registered candidacy.

At Saturday's assembly, to which representatives of other left-wing parties are invited, the 304 delegates of Movimiento Sumar convened will elect the new leadership and approve the political document that will mark the direction of this new stage. All this at a delicate moment for the coalition government with the PSOE due to the judicial cases affecting the socialist party, which is causing "wear and tear" among progressive forces, as Movimiento Sumar admits in the draft of its document. The name of the new candidate remains unknown, but in its document, Movimiento Sumar opens the door to "contingent alliances" with independence forces, after Gabriel Rufián's (ERC) offer to lead the left.