Díaz: "You asked us for an agreement and we have achieved it"

Vice President Yolanda Díaz presented this Saturday in Madrid the confluence agreement of the left from all over the country under the umbrella of Sumar. “You asked us for an agreement and we have achieved it,” Díaz stressed. That will be the distinctive character of Sumar, she explained, “dialogue and agreement.” “Getting agreements is what I have done throughout these almost four years,” recalled the Vice President and Minister of Labor, mentioning the labor reform, the ERTES or the successive increases in the minimum wage. And she celebrated the occasion by announcing the agreement with the unions for the new statute of the intern, reached this week.

The Sumar leader thanked the negotiating teams of the 16 political organizations that have signed the confluence: “I want to thank all the political formations that have not only risen to the occasion, but have given what better of themselves to understand that people wanted us to shake hands. And she extended it to the Sumar team, mentioning the person who was in charge of coordinating the multilateral bobbin lace, Josep Vendrell.

“We have reached a great pact for hope,” stressed Díaz, who announced that his campaign will not focus on fear of the extreme right. “Sumar has not come to agitate fear, panic, or to tell horror stories, but to point out the emperor’s suit and remember that he is naked.” The allusion was expressly addressed to Alberto Núñez Feijóo, whom he accused of being unaware of the country’s economic situation and disbelieving organizations such as the European Commission, the OECD or the International Monetary Fund.

“They cannot say anything about the labor, social and economic reality of our country because they are unaware of it. They lie and make noise because they have nothing to offer,” Díaz said, making it clear that Sumar’s political character will be New Labor and that his political adversary will not be the ultra-right or the PSOE, but the leader of the PP, whom he has known since the times when Díaz was involved in politics in Galicia.

He anticipated that Sumar will not focus the campaign from negative emotions, but from “the illusion”. “Getting excited is doing the job we have come to do, it is being careful with people and the planet,” Díaz explained, adding that “we are excited because that is what we propose to the public: dialogue and agreement.”

He admitted that “there are many people who are afraid, who doubt, who do not trust”, and Sumar intends to “listen to those who are afraid, doubt or do not trust because they have reasons that we must listen to and solutions that we must offer”. The objective, he insisted, is to win the elections: “We are going to win the general elections and build a new country agreement.”

Díaz assures that Sumar and his country project are born from the conviction that “our country can be better and will be better, that life can be easier”, hence the objective is “to win for the people who are waiting for us”. . This supposes, he explained, that Sumar will not operate out of indignation, but “caring for the people”, with “different forms, with care, with affection and with respect” because the general elections “are not about the last four years, but about the next eight”.