He marks differences with the PSOE, which he places in old politics, and reprimands Podemos for rejecting the unemployment benefit reform
The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, has announced that Sumar will hold its constitutive assembly on March 23 and has claimed that her project is the best tool to unite the alternative left to the PSOE.
“To all the colleagues who come from different political formations, I thank you and I tell you that above our pasts we add our futures because the people (…) are waiting for us,” he said this Sunday in Madrid at an event in the Goya Theater in Madrid, supported by the rest of Sumar’s ministers: Ernest Urtasun, Mónica García, Sira Rego and Pablo Bustinduy.
In this way, Díaz has gained muscle with a clear message of unity to the different political formations, calling to forget discrepancies in the past and enrich Sumar, after agreeing with the unions to raise the minimum wage by 5% and the blow for the rejection of Podemos to its unemployment benefit reform.
Sumar had given maximum relevance to this act, since Díaz launched its listening process in July 2022, with the presentation of the one hundred members of the promoting group who, together with the provisional executive of Sumar, will lay the organizational foundations of this political project. , which seeks to transcend political parties and establish itself as an eminently citizen project.
In this way, Díaz has proclaimed his aspiration to establish Sumar as the hegemonic space on the left of the PSOE and overcome the Podemos stage, whom he has criticized for overturning the unemployment benefit reform, during an event where he had the support support from IU, En Comú Podem and Más Madrid, very involved in the Sumar executive and in the aforementioned promoter group.
At this event, however, other coalition forces such as Compromís, Alianza Verde, Proyecto Drago or Més per Mallorca were absent.
The second vice president has defended that Sumar is necessary and that is why she wants to lay down “deep roots” to be a formation that represents “useful politics” in each locality and autonomous community of the country.
“We need roots, but we also need wings to fly, to imagine and to build a better policy. We are an imaginative force. Without imagination we cannot govern,” Díaz emphasized to contrast the “usual” and “old” recipes of the bipartisanship, in reference to PSOE and PP.
And he has also once again attacked the right and Podemos for their rejection of the unemployment benefit reform, promising that this measure will go ahead despite those who have prioritized “interests other than those of people’s lives.” Therefore, he has criticized the vote against this improvement in the subsidy for those who “have nothing.”
At the same time, it has marked differences with respect to the PSOE by evidencing its disagreement with the measure of subsidizing, within the anti-crisis decree, certain investments by large energy multinationals despite the “obscene” benefits, something that it has disfigured as “quite old and undemocratic.” “.
In this way he has explained that Sumar brings “future”, hope and imagination in politics, to presume that his proposal to create a universal inheritance for young people is already being promoted in Germany.
THE PP ONLY OFFERS “HATE” AND THE BARBARITY COALITION WITH VOX
The leader of Sumar has also denounced that the PP only offers a coalition of “barbarism” and “hatred” as a future, also proclaiming that what truly “breaks Spain” are its policies of “garbage contracts” and “lowering taxes on the rich and keep them high on the social majority.
Therefore, and in terms of the Galician elections, Díaz has asserted that the candidacy championed by the parliamentary spokesperson, Marta Lois, will be decisive in unseating the popular members of the regional government and has called for achieving, in this electoral event, a similar mobilization to that of 23J.
And he has conveyed Sumar’s commitment to feminism and a new masculinity, given that they do not want the attitude of the right and the Vox councilor Javier Ortega Smith “attacking” the Más Madrid councilor Eduardo Fernández Rubiño.
SEVERAL EXCHARGE OF PODEMOS IN THE ACT
The event has exceeded expectations and 400 Sumar supporters have not been able to access, to whom Díaz and his ministers addressed a few preliminary words. Among the audience there have been prominent leaders of Más Madrid, IU and the commons, as well as the main cadres of Sumar.
And former Podemos leaders such as Roberto Sotomayor, former candidate of the Morados for the city council of the capital, Carolina Alonso and Sergio García Torres, who left the party amid criticism of the party leadership for their disputes, have also come to listen to Díaz. with Sumar.
THE MINISTERS VALUE THEIR POLITICAL AGENDA
For its part, this act has served, apart from supporting Díaz, for Sumar’s ministers to highlight their agenda and the political challenges for 2024.
Meanwhile, Minister Sira Rego has appeared perplexed after reading a disturbing article about how Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg is spending $270 million to build a bunker to protect him from possible “environmental disasters and nuclear attacks.”
Therefore, he explained that Sumar precisely has an agenda to improve society and the planet: “we want community, not the bunker.”
Meanwhile, the Minister of Culture has praised that Sumar is launching today, after stopping the reaction in the elections and being key in the progressive mobilization and convinced that this factor will also be repeated in the Galician elections with a great campaign by Lois in the face of the PP’s “lies” with the dumping of ‘pellets’.
“We are a decisive factor of change,” Urtasun praised, however, specifying that Sumar should not be complacent and that the legislature cannot only be about “pure management” but about ambitious progress, especially as a purely ecological force.
Meanwhile, Mónica García has vindicated Sumar y Más Madrid’s commitment to improving public services such as healthcare and feminist rights, in the face of the “moral lowliness” of the PP and the “I like the fruit” of Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
Finally, Bustinduy has promised that Social Rights are committed to extending maternity and paternity leave to 20 weeks, as well as paying parental leave, guaranteeing “decent and effective” minimum incomes and a universal child-rearing benefit.
