No mention of the referendum in Catalonia. Sumar’s candidate Yolanda Díaz, has chosen the neighborhood of Sant Ildefons of Cornella to celebrate the first act of pre-campaign once the general elections of 23-J have been called and with the lists already closed. And it has been from this working-class neighborhood, where he has wanted to take up the banner of the defense of the working classes and vindicate his policies at the head of the Ministry of Labor, with the rise of the minimum salary wave labour reform, and promising to go “further”. Instead, he has avoided making any reference to the referendum in Cataloniaafter the controversy of this week, and he has limited himself to saying that his project is “in favor of life and of Catalonia”. The candidate of the Comuns, Aina Vidalwhich has only defended dialogue and de-judicialization.
All this after a week in which Vidal He raised dust in the space by assuring, in the presentation of his list in Sabadell, that the “referendum” would be part “as always & rdquor; of the electoral commitment of space. Hours later, Díaz clarified that there was no specific program for the comuns, something that was interpreted as a clash between the two formations. However, the two formations denied that it was a clash and assured that the electoral programs of Sumar and the commons will include a vote on the agreements reached at the dialogue table if it meets again after the July 23 elections. , and not about a self-determination referendum as En Comú Podem had championed until 2019, something that already happened in the 2021 Parliamentary elections.