“Yes, absolutely,” Yolanda DÃaz answers emphatically when asked if she has suffered macho attitudes from Pablo Iglesias and Pedro Sánchez. “Me and all of Spain. This hitting the tables in the negotiations…”, details the leader of Sumar, in an interview with Jordi Évole, which is broadcast tonight on the program Lo de Évole, on laSexta.
Diaz is in pre-campaign. Her project, Sumar, does not run in the elections on May 28, but the second vice president and Minister of Labor announced her candidacy for the presidency of the Government two weeks ago and is going all out. “Left-wing men are a rock”, because of their speeches on feminism, she also says in the interview.
But the most acidic criticism is directed at Podemos, and in particular at Iglesias, whom he reproaches for maintaining “such a sharpened role” in the party and asks him to “let go”. “You have to let people fly in politics,†he says.
DÃaz also reproaches Podemos for its decision not to attend Sumar’s presentation, due to disagreements in the negotiation with which they are trying to unite the entire space to the left of the PSOE under a single electoral umbrella. And he assures that in that act “there were a lot of people” from Podemos and people who wanted to go and were not allowed. “I can’t understand that I invited you on the 2nd to an act in which nothing ended and you couldn’t come,” he notes.
In the absence of an agreement, DÃaz warns of the electoral consequences: “If you ask for clean cake unity, you are depressing your electorate and then it does not matter if you shake hands,” he says.
And he maintains that the primaries are not the only cause of the tensions: “If we sign a document today with Podemos†accepting decentralized open primaries, “do you think they are within Sumar? I tell you no, â€he maintains, while expressing his willingness to“ negotiate everything â€. “I know very well what the political parties want, they talk about how much money, how many lists, and little program,” he says.
