After the departure of Yolanda Díaz, Sumar has opted for a collegiate management with 4 members of the previous chief’s belief. Particularly, the Secretary of Group, Lara Hernández, her counterpart in Communication, Elizabeth Duval, the Secretary of State Rosa Martínez and the final secretary of the parliamentary group, Txema Guijarro.
Lara Hernandez
Lara Hernández, Secretary of Group, started her political profession within the 15M motion. Previous to her place at Sumar, she was within the route of Izquierda Unida the place she was a part of the European lists to which Cayo Lara ran. Along with her political exercise, Lara Hernández is a philosophy instructor at a public institute within the Group of Madrid, though she is presently on go away to give attention to politics.
He had an necessary position within the merger of Unidas Podemos and have become a trusted particular person of Yolanda Díaz. In April 2024, the previous chief included her in her arduous core together with Ernest Urtasun.
Hernández emphasizes the significance of a agency political dedication and the voluntary participation of the events within the Sumar challenge, advocating dialogue and collaboration between the varied progressive political forces to construct a standard challenge.
Elizabeth Duval
Elizabeth Duval, Secretary of Communication at Sumar, is a thinker, author and activist. Her reference to actions associated to feminism and LGTBI rights led Yolanda Díaz to position her belief in her within the protection of those causes. Regardless of her younger age, since she was born in 2000, Duval has stood out for her lively participation in public debate and has revealed a number of essays, together with “After the Trans” and “Melancholy.” She studied Philosophy and Letters on the Sorbonne College in Paris.
In July 2023, Elizabeth Duval was appointed spokesperson for feminisms and LGTBI rights at Sumar. On this position, Duval goals to advertise an “open, dialogic and integrative” feminism, with the purpose of increasing rights and freedoms in Spain. She is a collaborator on totally different tv packages akin to ‘Al Rojo Vivo’ or ‘El Goal’ on La Sexta. She stands out for her agency protection of the Trans Regulation.
Rosa Martinez
Rosa Martínez is the present Secretary of State for Social Rights and Agenda 2030, appointed in November 2023 with Pablo Bustinduy and since 2024 she has additionally been in control of the Ecosocial Transformation Secretariat of Sumar. Behind her there’s an in depth profession within the political and environmental subject.
She was born on August 7, 1975 in León and is predicated in Euskadi. She has a level in Political Science from the Complutense College of Madrid and has a postgraduate diploma in Historical past. Her political profession started as co-spokesperson for Equo, between 2014 and 2018, and later as a deputy for Bizkaia on the Unidas Podemos lists within the normal elections of 2015 and 2016. In Congress, she was spokesperson for the Confederal Parliamentary Group Unidos Podemos within the Fee of Sciences, Innovation and Universities, and deputy spokesperson within the Vitality Fee.
She has labored as an unbiased skilled for the European Fee and the European Local weather Basis, concerned within the administration of tasks associated to the struggle in opposition to the local weather disaster.
Txema Guijarro
Txema Guijarro is a distinguished politician on the Spanish left lately, first in Podemos and now in Sumar. Born in Madrid, Guijarro was one of many arduous core folks of Podemos since its emergence. He was elected deputy for Valencia in 2015 and later for Alicante in 2019. He was one in every of Pablo Iglesias’ trusted folks, which elevated his affect within the occasion.
In February 2022, Guijarro resigned from the Podemos government on account of disagreements within the technique of the Common State Finances negotiations. His assist for Yolanda Díaz and her political challenge Sumar was consolidated, turning into one of many few Podemos leaders to brazenly assist Díaz even earlier than the official formation of Sumar. Since then, he has not hidden his disagreement with the management of Ione Belarra and the drift of the occasion. Within the normal elections final summer time he was chosen as Sumar’s primary for Alicante.
Along with his political exercise in Spain, Guijarro has a world profession, having labored in international locations akin to Bolivia and Haiti, which has given him a broad perspective on improvement and cooperation points.
