You have to go back to the early years of Podemos, to the first electoral victories and their celebrations in front of the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid, to find images similar to those left this Friday Yolanda Diaz at the premiere of Add. In a crowded square in El Matadero, the second vice president promised to combat political disaffection listening to citizenship over the next 6 months to configure a “country project for the next decade” that translates into a “new democratic social contract”. The also Minister of Labor, in a clear message addressed to the parties of the left, wanted to make it clear that everyone will be invited, although under two conditions: “enormous generosity” and “enormous doses of tenderness”.
“We play the next decade”, warned Díaz in which he said that it will be one of the few speeches that he will give within this process, since she is here to listen. Under that premise, the vice president recognized the fatigue of the left-wing electorate. “I know that politics has disconnected, that it has been left behind, that you think that politics is useless because it has left you behind”, she sentenced before pointing out that for this reason “the challenge is more important”. “How do I know that you are responsiblethere is no disaffection that is worth -he said raising the applause of the public-. Let’s walk together, let’s add up to say that the future is decided by us“, he continued.
Díaz, who competed at the same time with the concert of Isabel Pantoja in Madrid at the LGTBIQ+ Pride party, he admitted that the current moment is not easy in the face of growing inflation. In this sense, he claimed “that democracy reaches taxes” and the fight for a “more social and egalitarian” Europe. In addition, he called for work over the next year to revalidate a progressive government at the polls: “The right wing does not have to govern, we do not have to be afraid.”
The weight of citizenship
under a sun that thermometers rose to 34 degrees Late in the afternoon, several thousand people have gathered to attend the first act of the listening process with society with which the also Minister of Labor intends to set up a country project over the next 6 months and, after, decide whether to stand in the 2023 general election. Díaz chose for this premiere seven spokespersons belonging to the health, education and environmental sectors, representatives of Amazon workers and the ‘riders’ or the world of video games.
Over the next few months, Díaz will repeat this type of acts, maintaining sectoral or more general listening like this Friday. In addition, various thematic groups will be created made up of professionals, activists and academics who will form a “social contract proposal for the next decade” with all the ideas heard during the process, which will be presented in 2023, ahead of the general elections. .
On whether she will be the one lead the project ahead of the electionsDíaz pointed out that he will be available if the citizens ask for it: “In this citizen movement I am one more piecethe leading role is yours and, if you want, I join“. Several weeks ago, the vice president dropped that once the listening process is over, primaries will be necessary to legitimize her as a candidate.
The relationships
In this line, Díaz assured that Adding “is not about parties or acronyms“, in tune with what he has defended in recent months and that has caused more than one moment of tension within United We Can. “They want to see us walking together, we don’t need to think the same. This is going to add up,” the vice president reiterated later.
As Diaz herself requested, the event was not attended by the top leaders of the parties on the left to prevent the focus from shifting from the open citizen debate to a possible image of the sum of acronyms. But yes, more discreet profiles of all formations have attended: Maria Theresa Perezleader of Podemos, and co-founder of the party Juan Carlos Purse; Sira RegoIU national spokesperson; Joan Mena, Ernest Urtasu Y David Cid of En Comú Podem; Henry Santiago, general secretary of the PCE; the spokeswoman for More Country, Hope Gomez and regional deputies from the party of Íñigo Errejón; and various leaders of Compromís.
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In addition, in recent weeks Díaz has received the endorsement of all purple space leaders, although in different degrees of effusiveness. The general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarraassured last Wednesday that they will be “contributing to the growth and unity of the space“. Although at no time have they stopped repeating that the vice president is their candidate for the 2023 elections, the truth is that the place they will occupy in this new project, still to be defined, has strained relations. The frictions seem to have been lowered in recent weeks thanks, in part, to the need to offer a common front against some movements of Pedro Sanchez.
Even the former Vice President of the Government paul churcheswho in recent months has launched several taunts at the one he himself designated as his successor, said Thursday that he will be there where Díaz requires him, as a “soldier” that he is, and wished him the best.