Presents Sumar as a “citizen movement” that “is not about parties or acronyms”, without anticipating its program and without being tied to whether or not it will be a candidate
The Matadero de Madrid, today converted into a cultural center, yesterday staged a mixture of political act, mental training and collective catharsis. Under a plateau sun of 35 degrees after eight in the afternoon, with people queuing since five and a delay of half an hour long that aroused palms and some beeping, Yolanda Díaz started her Sumar platform between shouts of “president” of the hundreds of supporters –5,000, according to the organization– congregated in the open air and in the midst of the desire for the Pride party that fills the Spanish capital. Although it was the starting signal for the “listening process” with which she is going to tour the entire country in the next six months, it was clear that the expectation that reigned from her was to listen to her. And what the second vice president of the Government said is that despite the pressures that are often around her, especially after the fiasco of the left in the Andalusian elections, she is in no hurry. And that she «she will join» –that is, she will decide if she opts for Moncloa– «if you want». It was an act without the presence –as Díaz requested– of leaders of United We Can or any other party; in which a dozen professionals committed to social activism took the floor –from a ‘rider’ to an Amazon employee through a teacher, a psychiatrist or a caregiver–; with supporting videos from the actor Antonio de la Torre, the writers Manuel Rivas and Bernardo Atxaga and the singer Kiko Veneno; and songs to love, hope, joy, care and non-resignation curdling the atmosphere.
Díaz admitted that he is being told that he is going “slowly” with the launch of his new political project. But far from showing the intention of accelerating the pace, he called for “calm” and sentenced that there is “a year” ahead to “think well” about what he is going to do in conjunction with those who adhere to his initiative. . Because his objective, he proclaimed, is to give birth to a “citizens’ movement” -Sumar “is not about parties or acronyms,” he warned- that will give rise to a “new social and democratic contract” for “the next decade.”
Díaz, during the presentation of his electoral platform this Friday in Madrid. /
Microphone in hand, wearing summer clothes and slippers, the vice president explained what Sumar is: an unequivocal commitment to education and public health, so that “democracy” reaches the economy, so that the electricity companies “stop expense of the five million energy poor”, for more equitably distributing the personal income tax burdens, compromising the “hyper-rich”, for preventing the right from spreading “fear and resignation” and for a “more social, affective, peaceful Europe”. and who seeks peace. She was her veiled allusion to the discomfort caused by Defense spending that the Government is tightening. Díaz also said he was aware that part of the electorate is “fed up with the noise” – he did not specify if it is also generated by the two members of the Council of Ministers – and of their disaffection with politics.
But beyond the big words –that love, freedom, justice, tenderness, dreaming…– with which he stitched his speech, there was no outline of what his political program could be, conditioned to the ‘inputs’ that you receive; nor allusion to the concern of the moment, inflation. At times, the Matadero reminded us of the inaugural Podemos assemblies, less battle-hardened and with a more soothing tone.
Galician pulse: Feijóo ironizes with the “sum of division” and the vice president with “the moderate in suit and tie”
If nothing goes wrong in the path of Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Yolanda Díaz, he ends up taking “the step” to which he alluded yesterday by formalizing his candidacy for the Presidency of the Government, the electoral struggle in the general election will confront two Galicians who know each other well, who confronted in the Parliament of their land and who now, in the arena of Spanish politics, seem willing to throw things at each other. With inalienable Galicianism, yes, according to how appeals were crossed yesterday, the day of Sumar’s coming-out.
The president of the PP took advantage of a party act to delve into the disagreements of the Sánchez government, this time on account of the increase in military spending committed as a result of the NATO summit. Feijóo first recalled how the minister and leader of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has contested that bet by the president. But more significant was that he did not miss the opportunity to pronounce on the embryo of his countrywoman’s political project. “It is ironic,” he said, that Díaz’s initiative is called Sumar when, in his opinion, it is part of a bankruptcy between the left. “They keep adding divisions until the final division,” he set back.
Diaz also did not avoid returning her cuteness. To criticize and oppose their way of seeing the world, he addressed all those who “want a man in a suit, with a tie and moderate to be the President of the Government.” He dropped it, not mentioning who he was referring to by first and last name. But the object of the dart was clear. And that the two Galicians who now shine in Spanish politics are open to fighting face to face. Even if it’s your way.
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