“I say it: there will be an investiture and a progressive coalition government” because “if there is none, Abascal and Feijóo will govern and we will go back 50 years”, and “burning down Catalonia is not an option”. The resoluteness of the second vice-president of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, relegates any wishful thinking, but, aware of the company’s difficulties, the leader of Sumar yesterday showed caution regarding the nuclear element in which placed the success: the amnesty, which is why he limited himself to treating it with euphemisms such as the need to “close wounds”, “broaden democracy”, “improve people’s lives” or “dejudicialize politics” .
In a new edition of Foros de Vanguardia, held yesterday at the Illustrious Bar Association of Barcelona, ??Díaz reaffirmed his willingness to solve the Catalan knot tangled up in the process: “We are working hard for a democratic exit , to return politics to politics and abandon the courts,” he said, because “we should never have gotten to where we got to; we should never have done what was done”. And at this point he blamed it on the PP, which “gave Catalonia the greatest display of political abdication and placed our country in a situation of almost confrontation of one population against another”.
Although prudence prevailed in the colloquium following her conference, the vice-president made it clear that some “renunciations” will be necessary for the agreement. On the pro-independence side, he made it clear that there is no place for self-determination or unilateralism.
In the first case, because “there is a dialogue table and the position is known”, and despite the fact that “the Catalans will vote”, he guaranteed, it will be a vote to ratify what is agreed in this forum. In any case, Díaz was more specific when he then opted for a “majority agreement”, he recalled that Catalonia is the only autonomous community that does not have the Statute that has voted, and that the Constitutional Court cut precepts that instead, it includes the Andalusian Statute.
Regarding unilateralism, Díaz reiterated that this position will fall by its own weight if there is an understanding because “when there is an agreement there is no unilateralism, there is no party interest; there is an agreement, and the parties know it”.
In addition, he justified the visit to the Junts leader, Carles Puigdemont, of which he hinted that President Sánchez was aware of it. Although “it was a risky photo”, he admitted, lavisita made sense. It was about starting the thaw and achieving it for something that values ??”fundamental” in any negotiation, mutual recognition.
The vice-president these days is looking for the complicity of Catalan social agents for these negotiations. That is why he met yesterday with the general secretary of CC.OO. of Catalonia, Javier Pacheco, and his UGT de Catalunya counterpart, Camil Ros. The goal, advanced weeks ago, is to incorporate these actors into the social agenda that aims to link with Sánchez for the new coalition government, and advance amnesty.
The leader of Sumar considers it necessary that the new coalition government that emerges from Sánchez’s investiture has the endorsement of a social agreement in which unions, employers and civil society, especially Catalan, are involved. The premise is that the broader the understanding, the more legitimacy the possible agreement will acquire, and this was reflected yesterday in Barcelona, ??where he showed off the endorsement of the twenty agreements of the Central Government with the social agents that they signed in the last legislature.
It is, as he equated it, the spirit of the Assembly of Catalonia, the unitary anti-Franco body created in Catalonia in the underground that united political parties and organizations of all kinds (unions, professional groups, neighborhood movements, universities, regional assemblies , etc. ) and that claimed democratic freedoms, general amnesty and the Statute of Autonomy.
In his conference on the future of the left, Díaz identified this event with categories such as “dialogue” or “cooperate”, which today are “most revolutionary”, he pointed out. In short, he bet on “making a country, structuring society, generating trust”, and emphasized “the ties that unite us”.
