Yolanda Diaz will launch its listening process under the name ‘Sumar’ and one of the ones that, precisely, it wants to add is Ada Colau. On the day that the mayor of Barcelona announced that she will stand again in the 2023 local elections to revalidate a third term, the second vice president wanted to give her all her support. “She is going to count on me if she wants to accompany her in her campaign,” the Labor Minister also advanced.
“Let’s also add with Ada Colau“, Díaz has said in statements to the media, referring to the name ‘Sumar’ that will preside over his listening process, as he advanced THE NEWSPAPER OF SPAIN, newspaper of the Prensa Ibérica publishing group. “This morning, very early, I spoke with Ada Colau and I take this opportunity to wish her the best of luck“, said the vice president before making it clear that she will want the mayor of Barcelona to be present in the “journey” that she will embark on after the elections in Andalusia on June 19.
The Minister of Labor wanted to claim that Colau is at the head of one “of the city halls of reference in Spain and in the world“. As he has told, on the trips he makes abroad they talk to him about the “policies deployed” by the leader of Catalunya en Comú from the Barcelona town hall.
months of relationships
The harmony between Díaz and Colau has been forging for months. Both shared the stage in an act in Valencia, under the title ‘Other policies’. This was the first event in which the second vice president began to expand her horizons beyond the limits of the United We Can coalition. In addition to Colau, the Valencian vice president attended, Monica Oltrathe leader of More Madrid, Monica Garcia and the Ceuta leader Fatima Hamed.
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In the III Assembly of Catalonia in Comúheld last November, the Catalan purples ratified a political document in which it was noted that “winning happens by making Yolanda Díaz the next president of the Government of Spain“. In addition, they warned that it will be necessary to build bridges with other formations: “It will be necessary to open up to new alliances that qualitatively represent much more than the sum of the parts”, they continue.
Name
Regarding the choice of the name ‘Sumar’, Díaz has assured that she “feels comfortable” in a verb that “expands fundamental rights, environmentalism, feminism…” and that she is “excited, very hopeful” and with the wish that “many people join”. In this sense, she has reiterated that it will be after the Andalusian elections when she will embark on “that new journey” that will take her throughout Spain to “know the response of the groups.” “The only thing I want is to form a world of ideas to project a different country“, has sentenced.