The vice president emphasizes that “noise distracts” from changing things and appeals to “tenderness” in public life in the face of Iglesias’ attacks
In the midst of a clash between her measured position on the controversy surrounding the “only yes is yes” law and the attacks by Pablo Iglesias and leaders of Podemos for not coming out in express defense of the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, Yolanda Díaz has An unexpected turn has been given to the presentation today in Valencia of Sumar, the political project that he has once again described as “unstoppable” to “transform the country” in the next decade. The second vice president of the Government has not evaded the harsh reproaches launched by Iglesias the day before, when she described as “miserable” the attitude of “putting oneself in profile” in the controversy over the reduction of sentences that she implicitly attributed to Díaz. But she has responded in her own way, cryptic and without mentioning the name of her to whom she was linked, until she has decided to walk alone, personal friendship and her political complicity. The also Minister of Labor has stressed that “noise” not only “distracts”, but that doing so “does not serve the purpose of changing our lives”, the purpose of the one who makes a flag in each act of Sumar. But the unforeseen has arisen from another side, detached from the domestic concerns of United We Can and focused on the action of the Government to which it belongs: the forceful departure from the pact finalized by the Ministry of Economy of Nadia Calviño with the financial entities to face the increase in the cost of loans for the purchase of flats due to the sharp rise in the Euribor.
After remarking that housing is “a fundamental right”, whose actual exercise delimits, along with employment, the playing field of social inequality, the second vice president has attacked the agreement that the first vice president continues to negotiate with the bank. That right to housing “is not going”, he has launched, neither “light proposals” nor that those responsible for the entities say “that they want to help the most vulnerable” nor, much less, that they aspire to “widen the rope » of the mortgaged proposing to extend the years of payment of the loans in exchange for “moderating” by lowering the now skyrocketing installments. “The bank is lining itself with the rise in interest rates and the Euribor”, Díaz has disapproved, who has assured, in the majestic plural, that “we do not accept” that proposal. Which in practice implies censoring the terms in which Calviño is trying to close an agreement with the banks, which is proving to be very difficult, to try to alleviate the upward pressure of the Euribor on households with lower and more adjusted incomes.
The promoter of Sumar has recalled “the rescue of 75,000 million” that acted as a lifeline for the sector in the face of the 2008 debacle and has demanded of it, now that “it is benefiting” from the strategy that has put an end to cheap money to try to bridle inflation, which is “exemplary” looking out for “his people”, for “his people”. What should be translated, she has required, in the decision to “freeze mortgages retroactively.” Díaz has not left his criticism there against those who he considers, according to his words, who are doing business with the inflationary crisis derived largely from the war in Ukraine. He has extended it, in fact, to the “big distributors” of food, on whose prices “we are not acting”, in what can be interpreted as another gesture of disgust towards the policies of his socialist cabinet mates; in this case, the minister Luis Planas, with whom, as with Calviño, the political vice president has already clashed on previous occasions. The Galician leader tried, in fact and without success, to lower the price of the shopping basket considered between counterproductive and hardly viable by the Government and the sector. Today she has returned to the charge, this time without a concrete initiative, to verify that companies are seeing their profits increase “in a scandalous way” and warn them that “they have to get wet for our country.” As long as they don’t, she has riveted, “we are going to recriminate him day by day.”
“Dispute hope” and “stateswomen”
The double reprimand of banks and distributors, although this entails the questioning of the Executive’s action, has allowed Díaz to mark his own profile in the act framed in Sumar’s tour trying to rise above the echoes of the disqualifications of Iglesias and to become strong to the left of the PSOE. The vice president has even gone back to the industrial reconversion of the 80s under the mandate of the socialist Felipe González, which she and her Galician countrymen suffered in the 80s, to confront that “devastation” policy, also mentioning without citing him with names and surnames to the ex-minister Carlos Solchaga, with the “transformation” of the sector in a green and participatory key with the workers he sponsors. And if these allusions have helped her to connect with the Valencian auditorium and the Sagunto battery project, she has also sought that connection by demanding better financing for the community; She stood, in turn, to blame the PP for its tax cuts.
“I am happy”, Díaz proclaimed at the beginning of his presentation, displaying smiles in the face of an increasingly sour coexistence with Podemos. In the final stretch, the vice-president wondered why women “find it so difficult to develop our lives” and has demanded that they now speak of “State women” as is done with men who carry out public responsibilities; It is unknown if the intention has been to send another message to Iglesias – to whom he has come to say that this is not going to make “noise and cheer” instead of generating “trust” – but it has sounded like a kind of claim against the attempts by the founder of Podemos to limit his freedom of maneuver. «Sumar is about disputing hope. Winning a country to transform it », she cried out just after calling on her companions to “take care” of each other and defending that public life be permeated with “tenderness”. The opposite of what she has been receiving from the person who served as her mentor in the Government.
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