Sumar participates today, hand in hand with the deputy for the commons Aina Vidal, in its first major televised state debate, with six other parliamentary spokespersons –Patxi López (PSOE), Cuca Gamarra (PP), Santi Abascal (Vox), Gabriel Rufián (ERC), Aitor Esteban (PNV) and Oskar Matute (Eh-Bildu)–, with more than good spirits after the controversial result of the Atresmedia debate, from which the third and fourth parliamentary forces, Vox and Sumar (as United We Can).
The presidential candidate, Yolanda Díaz, had predicted days before that the bipartisan debate on the private station was going to be a “duel of zascas” between “two gentlemen” and the wild and unfriendly exchange between Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo has served to reaffirm the crisis of representation of the bipartisanship and the rejection of the voters to the strategies of confrontation and polarization with which PSOE and PP try to monopolize “useful vote”.
Sumar’s agenda less than 24 hours after the debate consisted of a reorientation of the feminist communication space, after the hard months of polarization around the Ministry of Equality. In an act at Teatro Pavón, in the Madrid neighborhood of Lavapiés, in which the spokesperson for Feminism, Equality and LGTBI rights, Elizabeth Duval, criticized that an attempt had been made to “draw an image of feminism that makes it a place where it fits every time fewer people”, she underlined: “Feminism is not a cultural battle, it is not a question of identity and it is not a philosophical debate either: feminism is the most complete and radical project of social transformation for the 21st century”.
The act revolved around the material rights of women and the intervention of the activist for the rights of migrants and domestic workers, the Salvadoran Carolina Elías, who emphasized the rights of employed women, was especially celebrated. in the care sector. “The right wants us divided and confronted, let’s not fall into its trap, let’s not fall into the war of the sexes,” Díaz demanded before a full theater.
This attribute of the campaign, which avoids confrontation, had a translation yesterday in the launch of a WhatsApp line so that voters can address the candidate, who continues to emphasize the measures of her program. In this sense, the strategy for the debate to four next Wednesday the 19th on RTVE – in which Díaz will face Pedro Sánchez, Santiago Abascal and the empty lectern of Alberto Núñez Feijóo – will be to strengthen that contrast, explain sources from Sumar , and put the focus on political action for the future, completely absent from the duel last Monday at Atresmedia. The certainty that “noise keeps people away from politics”, which Yolanda Díaz repeats daily and which some consider to limit the scope of her political offer, was reinforced on Monday with a paradoxical contrast: at a time of intense political polarization, the Sánchez-Feijóo duel was the least seen in the historical series.
