Advance the compatibility between the contributory unemployment benefit and the return to the labor market, promote a subsidy for victims of sexist violence, reform the CGPJ… The list of duties that Sumar has assigned to the coalition government that he shares with the PSOE has not stopped growing since Pedro Sánchez finished his period of reflection. But among all the tasks, the recognition of the Palestinian State stands out, for which its general coordinator, Yolanda Díaz, urges the President of the Government to fulfill his word as soon as possible.
To this end, the second vice president of the Government has called on her partner in the Executive to use the council of ministers scheduled for tomorrow to recognize the Palestinian State. A resolution that Díaz herself would endorse in person with an official trip to the West Bank that the leader of Sumar intends to undertake after the European elections in June.
“The PSOE has always known our position. I understand the efforts made by the President of the Government so that this recognition goes hand in hand with other presidents of the European Union. It has all its logic and that is why we have supported it. But it has reached a point where the Palestinians cannot wait any longer,” Sumar’s spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, confirmed minutes later.
“Why tomorrow?” Urtasun emphasized when asked by the press: “With the prospect of the vote in the UN General Assembly on the 10th, we believe that Spain should send a message to give a push to the vote.” through the council of ministers this Tuesday, he insisted.
In an interview on TVE, Díaz has not clarified whether the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, or the Minister of Foreign Affairs, EU and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, have given her any response to the petition that she launched yesterday at an event the Catalan electoral campaign. But she has taken the opportunity to reproach “the absolute permissiveness of the international community” in the face of Israel’s attack on Gaza and that it “does not serve the tasks of the complexity of the international relations of the 21st century.”
Regarding the trip to the West Bank that she announced last year, raising misgivings in Sánchez and Albares, Díaz justified the delay in that “we are working in our country and we are also in an electoral process that is quite long in Spain”, but she guaranteed “ without a doubt” that he continues “in contact and developing that visit” with the new Minister of Labor of the Palestinian National Authority, with whose department he has had a relationship “for some time” and with whom he hopes to sign a memorandum.
In a subsequent telematic press conference, Amanda Meyer – co-spokesperson for Izquierda Unida, a coalition coalition with Sumar – pointed out that “we are already late” and that “recognition” of the Palestinian State is not enough, but that we must “work actively so that it is not There is no financing of any kind to a genocidal state” like Israel, which is “putting at risk” not only the lives of Palestinians, but “human security” around the world. For this reason, she concluded that “we cannot wait any longer for Spain to take drastic measures.”
