The ‘comuns’ seal their commitment to the ‘broad front’ of Yolanda Díaz

Coming out of Catalonia In Common to boost the second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Diaz. The ‘comuns’ have exhibited this Sunday their harmony with the project that the minister nests, still full of unknowns, inviting her to the closing of her third assembly in Barcelona and thus reissuing the act that took place in Valencia last week to unite the left under his ‘broad forehead’.

In fact, the purple ones have ratified the presentation that sustains that “winning happens by making Diaz the next president of the Government of Spain.” How? “Opening up to new alliances that qualitatively represent much more than the sum of the parts” and “turning a potential leadership into a project and political subject”.

On this occasion, the leader of Podemos, Ione BelarraYes, he has intervened through a video and the organization secretary, Lilith Verstrynge, has personally attended. The Minister of Consumption also attended the closing, Alberto Garzon; the vice-president of the Valencian Generalitat, Monica Oltra, as well as the coordinators of the party in Catalonia who have revalidated their position, Jéssica Albiach, Ada Colau and Candela Lopez reflected the three political sensibilities within the space – Barcelona en Comú, Podem and ICV – to show a cohesive force and leave behind the divisions that in the past generated internal tensions.

“Count on Catalonia”

In his speech, Albiach has praised that “progressivism and plurinationality, federalism, are the same thing” and has opted for weaving alliances to widen this political space. Addressing Diaz directly, he has riveted: “Count on Catalonia to transform Spain. Transformation processes are not built backwards and against, but hand in hand and in favor of the people. We not only need each other, we also love each other “.

Díaz, hailed with shouts of “president”, has picked up the glove and has slipped that “It is time to be the avant-garde again, to place Catalonia in the center”, highlighting the work of Colau at the head of the consistory and asking her to be a candidate again in the 2023 elections.

The also Minister of Labor has opted for a plurinational Spain in which all co-official languages ​​are respected, has valued the “artisanal” policy that “builds bridges” from dialogue, “the only tool to change life and societies “. “Dialogue is slower, but it is tenacious, builds and legitimates. Compared to those who said that there is only one Catalonia; there are two, there are many”, he added, putting the “common good” above the ‘processist’ division.

Díaz has taken off his work in the Government, making it clear that the Executive has allocated 3,232 million euros to the ertes in Catalonia, thus confirming “the value of what is public.” “Yes you can govern for the social majority,” he emphasized, urging labor reform at the same time.

Federalism and ecofeminism

Colau, for his part, has once again demanded the regulation of rents and has said that his government work shows that institutions can be led in a different way. Thus, he has called for the building of “plurinational alliances” to consolidate the vice president’s project: “Díaz did not want to be president or a world leader, but it was his turn to […] Spain needs Díaz, it’s a collective marriage“, has settled.

Belarra, through a video, has defined the next stage as “exciting and hopeful” to “rebuild what was not working well, cement the future of the next generations.” “We will need all hands, ideas and transformative looks to pilot an ecofeminist project and a new social economic model,” he asserted.

Oltra, for his part, has called for breaking the “falsehood of the neoliberal dogma that the rights manage better.” “It is a lie, they manage fatally, they make deeply selfish and unsupportive policies. And they are bad managers, not to mention that they are corrupt,” he said, betting on an ecological transformation and thus ruling out the expansion of ports and airfields.

The new training roadmap It goes through defending a republican and plurinational State, by shielding the dialogue table between governments -without a referendum in the short term-, by expanding and strengthening the Catalan self-government, by a new financing system, by environmentalism and feminism as a guide transformation of politics and for a new plan for economic recovery that is sustainable and knocks out inequalities accompanied by a “social shield” in terms of public services.

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