The pro-sovereignty sector of Compromís breaks with Sumar, plunging the coalition into crisis.

ValenciaThe Más party, the pro-sovereignty wing within Compromís, has decided to stick to its guns and leave the Sumar parliamentary group in the Congress of Deputies and join the mixed group. This was confirmed by the results of the consultation held this Monday within the party's national council, which validated the strategy of the Valencian executive, which has been urging its members to take this step for weeks. The result of the vote was 190 votes in favor (92.68%), 8 abstentions (3.9%), and 7 votes against (3.41%). Turnout rose to 88.74%.

The decision leads to a split within Compromís, given that Iniciativa del Poble Valencià—Mónica Oltra's party—has reiterated its refusal to leave the group led by Vice President Yolanda Díaz. In the case of the minority Verds-Equo parties, they preferred to continue negotiating. The most likely scenario is that only Sumar will abandon Més MP Àgueda Micó, and that Alberto Ibáñez, the representative of Iniciativa, will remain in the parliamentary group.

The Valencian party is not the only front Sumar has open, given that Més per Mallorca will also hold an assembly this Thursday to decide whether its MP, Vicenç Vidal, will also move to the mixed group. If so, Sumar would be left with 25 deputies.

The Més consultation took place two weeks after the three coalition parties held an executive meeting, which resulted in a postponement of the decision and the drafting of a series of requirements that Sumar had to meet if they wished to remain in the group. These included being able to participate in control sessions to question the Spanish government and negotiating the internal functioning of the parliamentary group so that it would be "genuinely confederal and plurinational." The conflict had erupted a week earlier when Sumar failed to include Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on the list of those appearing before the future commission on the DANA (National Anti-Drug Defence Act) in the Congress of Deputies, as requested by the Valencianists. The two weeks of negotiations have not resolved the disagreements or the division within Compromís. They also asserted that, given the current crisis within the Spanish government over alleged corruption cases, now is not the time to focus on the internal situation within Sumar, but rather to concentrate on measures against the shady dealings that have affected the Socialists. Off-the-record, the eco-socialists added that Más's movement is more a function of division—Más is more a function of division—a coherent strategy, and the need to consolidate the leadership of the current leadership.

Despite Iniciativa's criticism, the differences within Compromís are due to the coalition's great ideological diversity, given that Más is a party that, despite its moderation in recent years, still defines itself as pro-sovereignty and would like to implement a strategy unrelated to that of the Spanish left. On the contrary, Mónica Oltra's party was born as a split from the United Left and has always maintained that its main objective is social policies and not measures that prioritize self-government, identity, and the language of the Valencian Country.

"We will denounce the alleged corruption of the PSOE"

The release of the vote result was accompanied by the publication of a letter to the membership from Més's general secretary, Amparo Piquer, who explained that she has already requested the holding of a Compromís executive committee to try to get Iniciativa to join the decision to leave Sumar. In the letter, Piquer already offered a glimpse of the party's future strategy in Congress and underscored her "deep indignation at the incomprehensible delay in the implementation of Sánchez's investiture agreements, including the change in the regional financing model." She also announced that they will denounce the alleged corruption of the PSOE "as they did when it came from the PP" and emphasized that they will demand that the Spanish prime minister appear before the DANA commission and provide explanations for his handling of the disaster.

Sumar also issued a statement emphasizing that they respect Més's "democratic" decision, although they emphasized that they "will continue seeking an agreement to guarantee the Valencian party's presence within the parliamentary group."