The Vice President of Government tries to distance herself after the socialist leader tries to recover the electoral ticket
The ‘vote of hope’ vs. the vote of fear. If the president, Pedro Sánchez, has presented himself in recent weeks as the only alternative to stop Vox from entering the Council of Ministers, Yolanda Díaz departs from her strategy and rejects this argument as a campaign thesis. The Sumar leader seeks to differentiate herself from the socialist leader to mobilize her constituents and has opened her own path.
The PSOE raised from the outset a “emotional” campaign, appealing to the entrails and with a very clear message: “Either you mobilize or Abascal to Moncloa”. A strategy for mobilizing the progressive electorate that Sumar’s team categorically rejects, where they doubt that appealing to the disaffected encourages their own to go vote. “We are not going to situate ourselves in fear of the right and the extreme right“Sumar sources point out.”That doesn’t move anyone. does not mobilize the left or the progressive voter in any European country,” campaign spokesman Ernest Urtasun argued this Wednesday in More than One, on Onda Cero, where he questioned this strategy, assumed by the Socialists, consisting of asking for the vote ” for the fear of what will come”.
More Madrid Style
Díaz’s race to the polls seeks a “positive” approach, which presents a horizon of hope, being convinced that this perspective, and not its opposite, is the one that can decide the vote on the left. A way of doing politics in the purest style Más Madrid, a formation that since its birth in 2019 opted to ‘soften’ the forms of the left, achieving the attention and support of a bag of progressive voters demobilized after years of confrontation and permanent noise, two elements that Podemos turned into a brand own.
Mónica García’s party has great influence in Sumar’s campaign: she directs her electoral strategy in the capital, which will be the csounding board of the rest of the country for its marked state profile. And it is that Díaz’s commitment to flee from fear of Vox is far from his predecessor in office, Pablo Iglesias, who in 2018 after the rise of Santiago Abascal in Andalusia did not hesitate to decree the “anti-fascist alert”. “We are risking our democracy& rdquor ;, said the then leader of Podemos in December of that year. A message that Pedro Sánchez himself replicates today, who in recent days defends the idea that the government pacts between PP and Vox imply “a 20 year flashback in 20 days“, as he defended this Tuesday in ‘El Hormiguero’.
“Proactive Campaign”
The second flag of Sumar this campaign is nonconformity. Beyond exhibiting the measures promoted by her from her ministries, such as the rise in the SMI, the labor reform or the increase in birth permits, Yolanda Díaz insists these days on point out all the measures that could have been deployed and that they have not done it for the socialist resistance.
But this challenge, also aimed at differentiating itself from the socialist wing of the Government, is accompanied by a wealth of proposals that they are making an effort to deploy these days. A “proposal campaign”, as they advance from Sumar, which has already left some measures on the table: a bonus of 1,000 euros paid by the banks for the families that cannot face the mortgage; a progressive reduction in working hours up to 32 hours or the request for a Minimum Interprofessional Salary of 1,400 euros.
“Our intention in the campaign is to recognize what we have done well, but to think about everything that remains for us to do knowing that the families are having a hard time & rdquor ;, detailed this Wednesday Urtasun, who tried to reduce the triumphalism of the government exhibited in recent days by the socialist wing. “People are having a hard time because there have been things that we have not been able to resolve,” continued the leader, who pointed to two big problems: the problem of rent and housing in Spain and the price of the shopping basket. Two pending issues “despite the fact that we made proposals & rdquor ;.
Divorce with the PSOE
As the appointment with the polls approaches, there is a growing Yolanda Díaz’s distancing from the PSOE. The second vice president, who throughout the legislature has advocated avoiding noise within the coalition and trying to reduce internal differences, now seeks to distance herself from the majority partner of the Government. A confrontational strategy where Can It has moved comfortably in recent years, and to which Díaz now subscribes, who this Wednesday did not hesitate to openly criticize that the PSOE refused to extend the limitation to 2% of rental prices in this last semester of the year. A decision that implies, as he criticized him, “rule against the people & rdquor ;.
The return of Pedro Sánchez to the electoral ticket with Díaz, which he publicly praises, generates contradictions. The president exhibited this Tuesday in the anthill the good harmony that he keeps with the leader of Sumar, who is now trying to get away from these praises. “I have worked with her, I know of her democratic commitment, I know of her good work at the head of the Ministry of Labor & rdquor ;, said Sánchez in ‘prime time’, where he asked not to compare the vice president with Abascal. A strategy that is understood in Sumar as a double-edged sword and that threatens to blur Yolanda Díaz as an alternative. The criticisms that the candidate has not pronounced since their arrival at the Council of Ministers they are now beginning to multiply at the gates of the electoral appointment.