“I’m telling you: there will be an investiture and a progressive coalition government” because “if there isn’t, Abascal and Feijóo will govern and we will go back 50 years,” and “burning down Catalonia is not an option.” The decisiveness of the second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, relegates any desideratum but, aware of the company’s difficulties, the leader of Sumar was cautious this Thursday regarding the nuclear element in which success has been located: the amnesty, which is why he limited himself to surrounding it with euphemisms such as the need to “close wounds”, “widen democracy”, “improve people’s lives” or “de-judicialize politics”.
In a new edition of Vanguard Forums, held this Thursday at the Illustrious Bar Association of Barcelona, ??Díaz reaffirmed the willingness to solve the Catalan knot tangled by the process: “We are fully working for a democratic solution, with returning politics to politics and abandon the courts,” he said, because “we should never have gotten to where we have gotten. “We should never have done what was done.” And at this point he blamed the PP, which “made the greatest show of political abdication in Catalonia and placed our country in a situation of almost confrontation between one population against another.”
Although prudence dominated the discussion after her conference, the vice president made it clear that in the agreement there is no place for self-determination or unilaterality.
In the first case, because “there is a dialogue table and the position is known”, and although “the Catalans will vote”, he guaranteed, it will be a vote to ratify what is agreed upon in that forum. In any case, Díaz gave some ideas when he then opted for a “majority agreement” and warned that Catalonia is the only autonomous community that does not have the statute that it has voted for, and that the Constitutional Court cut precepts that remain in the Andalusian statute.
Regarding unilaterality, Díaz reiterated that it will fall under its own weight if there is an entente because “when there is an agreement there is no unilateralism, there is no interest on the part, the parties know it perfectly, and this does not mean that they stop thinking what they “they think”
In any case, he justified the visit to the leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont, which he hinted was known to President Sánchez. Although “it was a risky photo,” he admitted, that visit made sense to begin the thaw and for something that he values ??as “fundamental” in any negotiation, he noted, mutual recognition.
The vice president seeks the complicity of Catalan social agents. For this purpose, she met this Thursday with the general secretary of CC.OO. of Catalonia, Javier Pacheco, and his UGT counterpart of Catalonia, Camil Ros, and today she will do so with the president of Pimec, Antoni Cañete. Díaz’s objective, advanced weeks ago, is to incorporate these socioeconomic actors from Catalonia into the social agenda that she intends to link with Sánchez for the new coalition government, and advance the amnesty.
On the other hand, Díaz does not plan to meet with Foment, the employers’ association of the large Catalan company, which avoids commenting on the eventual grace measure until it knows the details of the proposal, unlike the CEOE, which has openly positioned itself against it.
The leader of Sumar considers it necessary for the new coalition government that emerges from Sánchez’s investiture to have the endorsement of a social agreement in which unions, employers and civil society, especially Catalan society, are involved. The premise is that the broader the understanding, the more legitimacy the possible agreement will acquire, and this was reflected this Thursday in Barcelona, ??where he showed off the endorsement of the twenty Government agreements with the social agents that were signed in the last legislature. .
It is, as he equated, the spirit of the Assemblea de Catalunya, the unitary anti-Franco organization created in Catalonia in secret that brought together political parties and organizations of all kinds (unions, professional groups, neighborhood movements, universities, regional assemblies, etc.) and that he claimed democratic freedoms, the general amnesty and the statute of autonomy.
In his conference on the future of the left, Díaz identified that future with categories such as “dialogue” or “cooperate” and that are today “the most revolutionary,” he noted. In short, he opted to “build a country, structure society, generate trust” and highlighted “the ties that unite us.” Before reaching this conclusion, the vice president reviewed the 10 ideas that in her opinion define the left: a project for the social majorities, its capacity for transformation when it combines progressive values ??and the interests of the majority; the defense of the public, feminism, ecology and internationalism.
“We need community,” he proclaimed, and that is why he claimed “respect for cultural and political plurality, as self-government and shared government” and his “fervently European proposal.”
