Now yes, yes, Yolanda Díaz is officially a candidate for the general elections and opens with her project Add a new stage in the alternative left to the PSOE. The Vice President of the Government stops “listening” and takes over from Podemos the leadership of that space. With those stripes, she faces as the first great challenge the unification under the same electoral umbrella of the broken pieces in recent years. Fifteen political forces among which Podemos is not included for now, which has been the great absentee from the coming-out ceremony this Sunday in Madrid due to its resistance to handing over power.
“I am going to take a step forward. I want to be the first president of my country, the first president of Spain,” Díaz proclaimed. They are the magic words that so many expected after two years of small steps forward, of a pampered construction with 25 “listening” acts in 17 autonomous communities and difficult internal balancing act after being appointed by Pablo Iglesias as her successor.
Díaz is now shedding that “guardianship” to fly by herself, carried in the arms of IU and the commons and by other parties that will formally land from June, such as Más País, Más Madrid or Compromís. Waiting to find out what will happen to her with Podemos, that for the moment she is isolated in the process of reconfiguration of the alternative left. And divided, since members of the purple party have defied the directive not to go to be covering the candidate either in person or through statements of support.
“Everything starts today!” Díaz exclaimed, before a euphoric and dedicated public of more than 3,000 people at the Magariños sports center in Madrid, where the illusion of a new beginning was breathed, of other ways of doing politics and of a ” new country project for the next decade”.
Applauding Díaz from the first rows were the main figures of the space such as the mayoress of Barcelona, ??Ada Colau (common); Alberto Garzón (IU), Enrique Santiago (PCE), Íñigo Errejón (Más País), Mónica García and Rita Maestre (Más Madrid) or the mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó (Compromís), among many others. He has presented all of them to be acclaimed by the attendees, he has given them “thank you” and to those who are candidates in the May elections he has given a powerful image of support and complicity for their electoral campaigns to the detriment of Podemos.
“Thank you Alberto [Garzón] for your enormous generosity and for knowing where you have to be; thank you Enrique [Santiago], for your high vision; thank you Íñigo for your intelligence for a new project for the country,” he said about those leaders who did not they are candidates.
He has also thanked other forces, up to the fortnight, such as Chunta Aragonesista, Proyecto Drago, Equo, Alianza Verde, Galicia en Común, Batzarre, Més per Mallorca, Movement for Dignity and Citizenship of Ceuta and Iniciativa del Pueblo Andaluz. To all of them we must add the president of the European Green Party, Mélanie Vogel, and the president of the European Left Party, Walter Baier.
Díaz has presented Sumar as an “open house” to transform Spain but also to bring together parties, social movements and citizens who want to “restore hope in politics” and “useful politics”. Although the act has been marked by the disagreement with Podemos on the conditions of her entry into this future candidacy, she has avoided making express references to Ione Belarra, Irene Montero or the purple party. But she has left the message that there are still “many people to join” and “we are going to join all of them.”
However, it has marked its own profile and its differences with the style and background of Podemos, betting on a transversality in the social, claiming a kinder tone, “tenderness” as a sign and a more “useful” and pragmatic transformative objective. .
They said, he has said, that politics was “polarization”, “a thing of the political parties and not of the citizenry”, being “very tough and rude” with the political adversary because Spain was a “divided” country, he has criticized. “From Sumar we have gone against the current, we have shown that politics with a capital letter is something else,” she stressed. It is “dialogue”, “agree” and “unite wills, hopes and dreams”. In short, “it is to unite all the people who want to take a step forward to improve our country.”
This declaration of intent, which he has exemplified by raising the minimum wage, recognizing unemployment for domestic workers, approving the riders law or the pension reform or the regulation of rental prices, has finished off by stating that Sumar is for “solve people’s problems” and “broaden democracy.” “We are not here to confront others” or “occupy electoral space,” she has stressed, but to “transform people’s lives.” “We have come to win the country.”
In one of the most powerful messages of his speech, and which is reminiscent of the one that exalted Mónica García in Madrid in front of Pablo Iglesias at the time, Díaz has openly detached himself from the finger of the former secretary general of Podemos and his attempts to tie her up in short, rejecting “guardians” or “debts”.
First, you have read a quote from Rosalía de Castro. “I am free. No one can stop the march of my thoughts and they are the law that governs my destiny.” And then he finished: “Women belong to no one. And I, a woman, do not belong to anyone either. Sumar is a feminist force and belongs to no one. It is necessary that we proclaim it, because it seems that even today we must carry a preposition ” de’ attached to our name, to determine our adhesions and our debts. No. We are tired of guardianships, of being ignored. Very tired. And we will continue saying it: we do not belong to anyone but ourselves. There is no need to shout it any more , It’s understood very well”.
Regarding his candidacy, Díaz has explained that he has taken so much time to reflect because he has had “doubts” about whether or not to be head of the list. “Doubting is very important to make important decisions in life,” he apologized. To then ensure that it can be “useful” for the country.
In summary, Díaz has claimed a new way of exercising leadership, in the face of the mistakes of the past that broke the space. And he has offered a less personal style that once again seduces supporters and, specifically, many parties and forces called to join forces for a sum that multiplies votes and helps revalidate the coalition government with the PSOE.
As an anecdote, the organization has been distributing stickers of “Yolanda president” and another with the nickname “La fashionaria”, for her refined style of clothing, which they mocked her from the right and which she has turned around to use it on her own. favor.
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