The second vice president promotes the design of a “progressive, European and green” country program for the next decade that will culminate in February
Yolanda Diaz insists over and over again that Sumar is neither a party nor an electoral platform. Since he publicly presented the project on July 8, he has defined it as a “citizen movement”. And this Friday he has remarked, almost as a challenge to those who ask him if this is the embryo of his candidacy, that he works with a compass different from that of the elections and to “give a headline with quick answers”. It is not in vain that he has underlined that his logic goes beyond that of the polls and that the objective is to design “a country project for a decade“This will not be ready for another five months and subject to that calendar it has presented what will be its intellectual shield to put black on white the outline of a Spain that must be “progressive, European and green”.
Until 35 experts of recognized trajectory and of academic and technical profile are placed at the head of the working groups that will put together this program. A cast that includes names such as the anthropologist, engineer and teacher Yayo Herrero at the head of the just ecological transition folder or that of the philosopher Ignacio Sanchez Cuenca in charge of the democratic quality. Present the latter in the act, he has warned of the risks of falling into the “fatalism and resignation”, the best allies of demobilization. also the writer Bernardo Atzaga in charge of the area of culture, the former magistrate of the Supreme Ferdinand Salinas to the justice or the political scientist Joaquim Brugue in administration and good governance. All of them will have a term until February month to lead a deliberative and participatory process to end up articulating a proposal.
The new horizon for Sumar is, therefore, in five months. Initially, Díaz had projected that she would announce at the end of the year if she would be the candidate of the space that should give shelter to United We Can. That calendar, at the mercy of her words, begins to dilate in parallel with the difficulties in agreeing on the lace with the purples in a space that reiterates that it should not be a mere sum of acronyms. “This is not about stumble, jump forward, stories or running. Goes to think about us “, she has dropped. A line that contrasts with the speed with which she built herself in her day Can.
Díaz has sought at all times to value what he wants to be a “slow” process. His country project, he has insisted, “does not accommodate electoral projects” and framing it in ballot boxes or an electoral list understands that it would mean restricting it or repeating the formula of the “short term” what have you done “make a lot of mistakes” in the form of “inconsistent policies”. To try to avoid double readings, he has exemplified it in the airports without planes or the thousands of empty homes while thousands of people cannot pay their rent or mortgage. But it is inevitable to oppose her philosophy to other projects within the space of the left that she wants to recompose so that she has real options to transform, and not just influence, from Moncloa.
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For the second vice-president, in Spain there have been “four great country projects”: that of Adolfo Suarezthe one of Philip Gonzalezthe one of Jose Maria Aznar and the one of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. He has bypassed the government of Pedro Sanchezof which she herself is a part, and has pointed out that she wants to articulate the fifth hand in hand with the group of experts. “Your task is that we have a country project for the 21st century”, she has entrusted to them. expand democracy, reinvent the welfare statetax reform, address the climate emergencygood governance and the new social contract are the six axes that it considers should be the backbone of the project.
In the midst of a debate about estate tax encouraged by the PP, Díaz has warned that the fiscal pressure in Spain is five points below of the average in Europe and has pointed out the “enormous fiscal injustice” that supposes that there are very rich people who pay few taxes. For her, solving it does not go through “one day launching a tax” -she has said it right in the middle of the hangover of the temporary tax on large fortunes announced by the PSOE-, but by reforming the system to collect public revenue.