Yolanda Díaz asks not to “bow your head” to the Catalan problem and advocates “more democracy and dialogue”

24 hours after the constitution of the Cortes and with the composition of the majority of the Table of Congress still in the air, the leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, has asked “not to bow our heads” in the face of the Catalan conflict and has opted for “more democracy and dialogue” as a method to solve it. In her first speech before the parliamentary group, with the great absence of the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, the second acting vice president has also warned about the danger that the negotiations for the formation of the Table this Thursday open the door to an Executive with the extreme right. “These days are being very intense, they are complex, we have not stopped working, but tomorrow is an important date. It is the gateway for a new coalition government or the door that opens the bowels to reaction”, Díaz stressed. She has not revealed any details of the negotiations, but she has confirmed (in statements to the media minutes before) that there are talks “at the highest level” with Junts, and she has been confident “that things will work out.” The head of Labor has outlined Sumar’s roadmap for this legislature before the 31 deputies of her formation and she has wanted to normalize the internal debate, but she has asked the parliamentarians for “cohesion and democracy”.

“We find ourselves again in a dilemma, which is “Catalonia as a problem, but Catalonia as a solution”, pointed out the vice president, citing the historian and former leader of Podemos in that autonomous community, Xavier Domènech. Díaz has affirmed that Sumar does not want an approach to the Catalan situation due to “cyclical issues”. “We believe that Catalonia is also the solution for Spain. Because we are a diverse country and because the political conflict exists and is real. And when there are real problems, they must be resolved with democratic convictions. Sumar’s mandate is that we resolve this situation with more democracy, with the only tool we have, which is more democracy, more democracy and more democracy. And dialogue goes with democracy”, Díaz declared in a nod to the pro-independence formations, Junts and ERC.

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For the leader of Sumar, the conditions are “more than adequate” to undertake the resolution of the problem. “Let’s not bow our heads like the ostrich. That problem is real. We have a great challenge and a great opportunity to tackle it”, she concluded. Díaz, in a previous response to journalists, has also framed the latest message on social networks from former president Carles Puigdemont demanding “verifiable facts” within the “logic of negotiations”.

Along the same lines, the head of education has insisted on the proposal formulated two weeks ago to allow the use of the co-official languages ​​in Congress, through a reform of the Regulations of the Lower House, in a similar way to what which is already happening in the Senate. As “people of the left”, Díaz has considered that they are the ones who are “in a position to undertake changes in the territorial model”. The vice president has advocated for a “country of countries”, as she already defended in the campaign, in which not everything passes through Madrid.

Although the majorities for this Thursday are still not clear, the leader of Sumar has taken advantage of her speech to announce that her group will propose this Thursday the political scientist and deputy from Cádiz Esther Gil for the vice-presidency of the Table and the parliamentarian of Catalonia in Comú Gerardo Pisarello as secretary, who would repeat in the position.

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In his opening speech, Díaz has also asked the deputies for “heights of vision” at this stage and has outlined the priorities of the legislature: reversing the loss of purchasing power of families, a change in the law that allows the renewal of the blocked CGPJ for almost five years, a tax reform, the reform of regional financing and the fight against sexist violence or climate change.

The vice president has also promised to avoid a return to austerity and has defended, instead, carrying out policies that “protect” the citizenry. “The cuts cannot return to the Government while Sumar is in it,” she has indicated.

Díaz has also advocated for the debate in the group. “There’s nothing wrong with showing our differences, I want to say it right here. It is good that we think differently, we must think differently”, he emphasized. “Only from diverse thinking can we have better public policies”, he added in full negotiations for the distribution of seats in the Lower House and in which some forces such as Podemos or Compromís have already asked for political autonomy.

While sources around Belarra have justified her absence from the meeting for “purely family” reasons, the person in charge of Social Rights published an article on Canal Red in which she defends the amnesty demanded by the independentistas and asks the PSOE to consider that option “with seriousness and rigor”. In her intervention, the leader of Sumar has qualified that although “all debates are welcome”, they must remain “always cohesive and democratic”. After more than two years of a less marked leadership in Unidas Podemos, the minister wanted to take the reins this Wednesday in the new stage and has taken the opportunity to announce that every Monday there will be a coordination meeting for the group.

Tomorrow the Table of Congress is voted on. It is time to face what has been postponed for so long to build a democratic and plurinational majority and revalidate the coalition government.

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— Ione Belarra (@ionebelarra) August 16, 2023

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