Sumar
Spain's left-wing coalition, PSOE's junior governing partner; founder Yolanda Díaz nominated to lead the ILO.
On 13 July 2026 Sumar accepted Junts's demand for a landlord tax break, overriding Podemos's objections to keep Spain's mandatory rent-extension decree moving toward a 31 July target.
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Nomads & Communities: Spain's Congress sinks the rent-freeze extensionBackground
Sumar is the Left-wing electoral Coalition formed in 2023 under Yolanda Díaz from Podemos's successor movements, Left-wing independents and regional Left parties. It sits as the junior partner in Spain's PSOE-led Coalition government, holding cabinet ministries including Labour and Social Economy, with parliamentary weight smaller than PSOE's but essential to the government's working majority.
Sumar's political identity rests on pushing PSOE further Left on economic intervention, most visibly on housing, where it argues for rent controls running alongside supply-side investment rather than supply investment alone. That positioning has repeatedly put it at odds with the harder-Left Podemos, which it absorbed only partially, and with smaller regional parties such as Junts, whose support the Coalition also needs to pass legislation.
As a junior partner dependent on votes it does not control, Sumar's practical influence over housing policy is regularly constrained by the bargaining power of parties to its right, a dynamic that shapes almost every major housing vote in this legislature.
It swapped rent controls for landlord relief
Sumar has argued since Spain's €7bn housing plan was approved that supply investment needs rent controls running alongside it, not instead of it . When Congress voted down a rent-freeze extension on 28 April 2026, spokesperson Verónica Barbero blamed the defection of Coalition partners Junts and PNV rather than the dual-track approach itself .
That line gave way on 13 July, when Sumar accepted Junts's demand for IRPF tax relief for landlords who lower rents, overriding Podemos's objections, so Housing Minister Pablo Bustinduy could pull the mandatory-extension decree's target forward to before 31 July . The concession cuts against Sumar's own urban-renter platform and leaves Podemos positioned to its Left on housing for the first time this legislature.