The plurinational parliamentary group of Sumar has started this Wednesday ready to “continue transforming the country” through the legislative action of the 31 deputies who achieved the past 23-J at the polls. And it has done so in a coming-out officiated by Yolanda Díaz to which, however, the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has not attended. An absence that, from the environment of the acting second vice president, has been downplayed to avoid distractions on the first day of work of the legislature.
“Spain wants more social rights, more labor rights, more economic rights, more feminist rights and, of course, more fight against the climate emergency. We are going to work for the present and for the future,” Díaz highlighted, consolidating his roadmap social minutes after picking up her act of deputy.
The leader of Sumar has referred to tomorrow’s decisive vote to set up the Congress Table for which the progressive bloc still does not have the necessary support and, despite appealing to “prudence”, has been optimistic: ” It is an important day. It must be the gateway for a new progressive coalition government”, she pointed out, declaring that she is immersed in negotiations at the “highest level” both with Junts and with other parliamentary groups.
Questioned about the details of the negotiation, Díaz has only added that she is working hand in hand with the former leader of the Commons, Jaume Asens. “For things to go well we have to be discreet”, she has justified herself. Although she has reiterated her optimism even after knowing the last words of Carles Pugidemont, who has claimed “verifiable facts” to compromise the votes of her political formation. The statements of the former president of the Generalitat enter into “the logic of the negotiations”. Specifically in “the last days of a negotiation”, she has stressed her.
Díaz has emphasized that “what the public wants is a country that dialogues hand in hand, that understands, that discusses.” “There’s nothing wrong with showing our differences, we can say them, it’s good that we think differently, what’s more, we should think differently,” he explains. “I would worry if we thought the same. I don’t think it’s the right thing to do,” he added.
Along the same lines as the PSOE, the leader of Sumar has reiterated her proposal to modify the regulations of Congress to incorporate the rest of the languages ??in the Lower House. “We want to bet on the change of model. We are convinced that Madrid is very important, but we need to make the country we have real”, she has emphasized, classifying this linguistic commitment as a matter of substance.
