The leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, has assured this morning that the referendum in Catalonia “is not on the table” in her party and has opted for “dialogue”. The vice president of the Government has thus settled the controversy that arose after assuring the commons that the referendum would form part of her electoral program.
In this sense, the Minister of Labor has asked if the relationship between Spain and Catalonia would improve with Vox and the PP in government. “I think not,” Díaz answered.
The relationship between the leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, and the former president of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, has been straining since the vice president of the Government launched her political project. This has been recognized by Díaz in an interview on The Ana Rosa Program, where she has assured that she was “very upset” when Iglesias said that he had “hit her.” “We had a sour conversation, I don’t like being told how I have to do things,” added the president of Sumar.
Yolanda Díaz did not want to comment on the absence of the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, on the Sumar lists, and has stated that “there are many people who are there and many who are not, such as Irene Montero, Alberto Garzón or Jaume Asens”.
Regarding Montero, Díaz has also admitted that the law of only yes is yes “could have been done better”, and recalled that she also corrected a rule during the pandemic. “It’s okay, we are human,” she added.
The Vice President of the Government has defended Sumar’s proposal to deliver a universal inheritance of 20,000 euros to young people. According to Díaz, the measure is “absolutely necessary”, and he has defined it as “modest”. The Minister of Labor has insisted that the money will be invested so that young people “can undertake or be trained”, and that it will be financed through taxes on large fortunes.
Regarding the criticism by Minister Nadia Calviño of Sumar’s proposal, Díaz recalled that the Minister of Economy said “the same thing when the ERTE, when I raised the minimum wage, with the labor reform, with the scholarship holders, but as As time goes by, the vice president adds to the success of these proposals”.
