Three out of three. The three subscribers that this reporter approached before the leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, gave her speech in a new edition of Foros de Vanguardia in the auditorium of the Col·legi d’ Advocats, all three of them have responded as follows: same. They came to see the vice president because they are interested in what a different policy says from the rest of the leaders of the peninsular political zoo. It is fresh, emphasizes one of them, Miquel, a La Vanguardia subscriber for three years. What do you expect to hear? What does it say about Catalonia? What will happen to the Government of Spain? A little bit of everything answers Joan, another digital subscriber for four years.
It seemed that most of us who gathered to hear the acting vice president came with the same expectation. To see a leader of the left who does not cause serious abrasions, severe fractures. Red velvet. “We must integrate the things to eat and the things to dream,” he said later in her speech. It is another way of saying the same thing: the assault on the heavens is subject to the guiding principle, so Catalan, of “prenguem no mal.” His intervention, from beginning to end, has lived up to expectations, especially when he confessed that during the vote on the Labor Reform law – that of the Casero miracle – he carried the rosary that the Pope gave him in his bag.
Let’s go step by step. The vice president has arrived on time – orange suit, long jacket, in case anyone asks – at the foot of the Col·legi d’Advocats building accompanied by her host, the president of the Godó group and editor of La Vanguardia, Javier Godó. Cameras… action. She went up to the platform and read a speech that occupied more than 17 pages. Ten points. Equality, combating climate change, feminism, humanity…
And then the moment has arrived that is always most interesting, the dialogue. When the politician goes beyond the written script and must respond more or less spontaneously. In the other corners of the conversation ring, the deputy director of La Vanguardia, Lola Gracía; Xavi Bundó, editor of Via Lliure of RAC1 and Ramon Rovira, deputy president of the Godó Group. And bang! It was then that the most unexpected headline appeared when the vice president explained that she, who takes her daughter to school almost every day, receives congratulations from the mothers and fathers she meets at the school door for what are you doing. “And so…. in Madrid!”, she emphasizes with admiration. Come on, the WhatsApp group of the parents of the course must be a delight. And, excuse me, strange, very strange.
Then Lola García’s question followed. How did you find Puigdemont? They will remind the vice president of the Government that she went to Brussels and met with the former president, causing a huge media rash on the other side of the Ebro. He hasn’t said anything we didn’t already know as expected.
In any case, for the record, the vice president has said three or four times throughout the conversation that there will be a progressive government. Sure, sure, sure. And in case of an accident she can always pull the rosary out of her bag. Let’s see.
