The leader of Sumar, Yolanda Diazhas chosen the neighborhood of Sant Ildefons of Cornella to celebrate the first pre-campaign act in Catalonia, once the general elections of 23-J 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 reformin addition to promising to go “further”.
On the other hand, the Vice President of the Government 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”, before an eventual coalition of PP and Vox “of ‘no’ to Catalonia”. He has also tiptoed past the head of the Communs list, Aina Vidalwho has only defended “dialogue” and “dejudicialization”, in the first act together with the leader of the coalition.
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 parties 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 in the dialogue table if it meets again after the elections on July 23, and not on a self-determination referendum as En Comú Podem had championed until 2019, something that already happened in the 2021 Parliamentary elections. Although there has not been an explicit defense of this dialogue table.
Criticism of Esquerra
What there has been in the Sant Ildefons auditorium -which has become completely small-, have been criticize Esquerra. Vidal has accused the Republicans of “giving up the elections for lost”, something that he considers to be “abandoning Catalonia”, and has reproached them for their alliances with Junts. “Defending Catalonia is that we have the lowest unemployment, that domestic workers have a subsidy, betting on the dialogue that has lowered the tension or promoting the public psychologist, oculist and dentist”, defended the Catalan candidate, assuring that the commons they will never give up “a government that listens to Catalonia as lost”.
In addition, he has made reference to the request of the ‘president’ Pere Aragones to create a “common front” against a possible government of PP and Vox, criticizing them for including Junts per Catalunya in it, whom Vidal has referred to as a party that “has allowed the extreme right to rule in Ripoll”. “If they don’t feel like it, we put them all. Our votes will not serve to make any right-wing mayor or president”, he has settled.
Raise the minimum wage and reduce the working day
Thus, avoiding delving into the Catalan question, Díaz wanted to focus efforts on flagging his policies at the head of the Ministry of Labor and has promised to continue advancing in the “rise in the minimum wage”, in addition to once again betting on reducing the working day .
“We want to talk about the weather. Leaving work an hour before to do whatever we want,” claimed the head of the Sumar list, who has assured that she is “astonished” by the criticism that her proposal has aroused. For Díaz, it is an “absolutely necessary” reform to adapt to changing times. “We live in the 21st century, but with 19th century conditions”, he stated, ensuring that reducing the working day does not mean losing productivity.
On the other hand, Yolanda Díaz has called for mobilization in the face of the possibility of a Vox and PP government, which she assures would go “against women’s rights”. “They are killing us. Women, Mr. Feijóo, are human beings. Enough of frivolizing about our rights,” claimed the presidential candidate, assuring that the vote on 23-J will be “decisive for the next decade.” A feminist message that has not included any reference to the Minister of Equality, Irene Monterowhich was excluded from Sumar’s lists.
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