Sumar is participating today, represented by the deputy of the commons Aina Vidal, in his first major televised state debate, with six other parliamentary speakers – Patxi López (PSOE), Cuca Gamarra (PP), Santiago Abascal (Vox), Gabriel Rufián (ERC ), Aitor Esteban (PNB) and Oskar Matute (EH-Bildu)–, in more than good spirits after the controversial result of the Atresmedia debate, from which the third and fourth parliamentary forces, Vox and Sumar (as United We Can).
The candidate for the presidency, Yolanda Díaz, had predicted days before that the bipartisanship debate on the private broadcaster would be a “flist-flast duel” between “two gentlemen”, and the bitter and unfriendly exchange between Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo has served to reaffirm itself in the crisis of representation of bipartisanship and the voters’ rejection of the strategies of confrontation and polarization with which PSOE and PP try to monopolize the “useful vote”.
Sumar’s agenda less than 24 hours after the debate consisted of a reorientation of feminist communication in the space, after the hard months of polarization around the Ministry of Equality. In an event at the Teatre Pavón, in the Madrid neighborhood of Lavapiés, in which the spokeswoman for Feminism, Equality and LGBTI Rights, Elizabeth Duval, criticized the attempt to “draw a picture of feminism that turns it into a place where every time no less people”, he emphasized: “Feminism is not a cultural battle, it is not an identity issue and it is not a philosophical debate either: feminism is the most complete and radical social transformation project for the 21st century”.
The event revolved around the material rights of women and the intervention of the activist for the rights of migrants and domestic workers, the Salvadoran Carolina Elías, who emphasized the rights of women employed in the care sector. “The right wants us divided and against each other, let’s not fall into their trap, let’s not fall into the war of the sexes”, claimed Díaz in front of a full theater.
This attribute of the campaign, which avoids confrontation, had a translation yesterday in the launch of a Whats-App line so that voters can address the candidate, who continues to emphasize the measures of the your program In this sense, the strategy for the four-way debate on Wednesday the 19th on RTVE – in which Díaz will see faces with Pedro Sánchez, Santiago Abascal and the empty lectern of Alberto Núñez Feijóo – will be to consolidate this contrast, explain Sumar sources , and put the focus on political action for the future, completely absent in last Monday’s duel at Atresmedia.
The certainty that “noise keeps people away from politics”, which Yolanda Díaz repeats daily, and which some consider to limit the scope of her political offer, was reinforced on Monday with a paradoxical contrast: in a moment of intense political polarization, the Sánchez-Feijóo duel was the least watched of the historical series.
