Spain Yolanda Díaz reveals tensions in the negotiation: "There are people in the PSOE who think that we have already protected the citizenry too much"

The leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, has assured this Thursday that her formation “looks” at the PSOE in the face of the negotiations to form a government, insisting that she will seek in these agreements “to win rights” for all citizens, while at the same time He has criticized the attitude of the Socialists: “There are people in the PSOE who think that we have already protected the citizenry too much.”

In a dialogue in Lyon with the founder of La Francia Insumisa (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who began his speech by thanking the leader of Sumar for her “victory” against the “extreme Spanish Francoist right”, Díaz contrasted the models who stood for the elections of 23-J, with a “right and extreme right”, in reference to PP and Vox, who, in his opinion, wanted to “make the country go back” to a “black and white Spain” ; that of Sumar, or that of the PSOE, so that “things remain as they are.”

At this point, the leader of Sumar has ruled on the negotiations with the Socialists for the formation of the next coalition government. Díaz, who has acknowledged that he is already “discussing” with the PSOE, has criticized that a sector of the party chaired by Pedro Sánchez considers that “citizens have been protected too much”, against the model proposed by Sumar.

“We think that there is no better economic policy than the one that protects workers”, he pointed out, while defending that Sumar’s proposal is that of “a country that advances and wins rights”, transforms it “in ecological terms” , and recalled that they made a “plurinational campaign and with the reason for equality within”, including women and the LGBTI collective.

In this context, Díaz has defended that from Sumar “they are not afraid” of a “subalternity” with the PSOE because, as he has assured, they look “straight on” at the majority partner and “at the citizens of our country.” “We speak clearly to the workers and the workers and also to the businessmen. We say clearly and we look into their eyes that we are two steps ahead so that in these negotiations the country is one step ahead,” he pointed out.

In this regard, Díaz has said that in the discussions for the government program with the PSOE there is talk of “the Spain that advances, the one that wants more rights” as opposed to “the Spain that is resigned and that winks at the economic powers “. Thus, he has claimed “to win democracy in its broadest sense”, also in the economic sectors.

Díaz has reviewed the general elections of 23-J in Spain, recalling that, in his opinion, it was a “very complex electoral process” given the “difficult scenario” that arose after the regional and municipal elections in May. “The rights defeated us”, he has recalled him.

The acting second vice president has emphasized that in just two months Sumar’s project was developed as “a citizen movement” that, at the same time, had to “defeat the right and extreme right” and maintain “a distance” from the PSOE, the party with which he governed.

“We went to that campaign with an approach that was difficult,” said Díaz, who has also criticized that both PSOE and PP wanted to return “to the old bipartisanship” in Spain. “We had been in the Government and we had changed not only the way of governing, but practicing public policies that challenged neoliberalism,” he added.

In this context, Díaz has criticized the “enormous performative capacity of the PP” and its “great hegemony in discursive terms”, making the population believe that they had already won the elections. That, as the minister pointed out, was Sumar’s challenge: telling progressive citizens that the elections could be won.