He assures that the parties should not be the protagonists and that it is not necessary to “prefer the initials” in order to expand the space of UP
MADRID, 23 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The federal coordinator of IU and Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón, has affirmed that Podemos is “necessary” for the future project promoted by the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, and whose purpose is to “expand the current perimeter” of United We Can, adding to other formations and social groups.
In this way, he has defended that the parties should not take the “prominence” of this process and that “the path” requires “not to put the initials but the needs” of the people, where precisely the “intelligence” of the Diaz plan resides in order to broaden the progressive bases and reach “much more people”.
This has been indicated in statements to TVE, collected by Europa Press, questioned about the new platform promoted by the also Minister of Labor, whose listening process will start after the Andalusian elections on June 19.
Regarding yesterday’s statements by the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, claiming that his training is “indispensable” to continue governing, Garzón agrees that the purple party is “necessary” just like the rest, as is also the case of IU that is fully “committed” to the Diaz project, contributing its “baggage” and political “experience” to it.
“There is no one left over here, we are all necessary or, if you will, essential,” the IU leader deepened.
In fact, he has extolled that his Podemos militancy is “golden” and that it is there every time an injustice has to be faced, although what is relevant on the left now is the ability to “add” other forces, but also to groups of civil society and anyone who feels “frustration” with the current drift of politics.
In this way, it has extolled the figure of Díaz with that ability to build an exciting political project with a great capacity for transformation, given that the vice president embodies those “yearnings” of the social majorities, as has been shown in her management in the Ministry of Worked.
In line, he stressed that an example is the rise in the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI), a measure that is deployed for the entire population, “without looking at whether they are people on the left or on the right.” Therefore, and as a result of Díaz’s future platform, the left has to “look at the entire population” and “convince people who are not on their ideological spectrum.”
Finally, and regarding discrepancies with the PSOE that have been seen during the processing of the ‘only yes is yes’ law, Garzón has stressed that the differences are normal in a coalition Executive but that they are overcome through dialogue and agreement.
In fact, he has underlined that PSOE and United We Can are clear that they put pacts before any possibility of rupture, since they are aware that the worst option for citizens is the possibility that the right wing governs. “There is a project for the defense of the working class and it must go ahead,” she has settled.
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