Yolanda Díaz assures that there will be a coalition government and announces that she already has a team to negotiate with the PSOE

Sumar continues to make moves to avoid this possible electoral repetition. This same Monday, in the balance sheet appearance, Sumar’s spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, called on the Socialists to sit down and negotiate a “program” and a “structure” to repeat the experience of the coalition. “There is only one possible investiture,” Urtasun said yesterday and today Díaz has repeated that idea. And that is why the way is to speak with all the “progressive and democratic” forces to try to secure a parliamentary majority.

“The polls have spoken and have said that they do not want a government of PP and Vox. Touch a progressive government. We are going to have a progressive government”, Díaz has stated several times in his first interview after the holding of the general elections, which left the PP as the winner but without the possibility of articulating a majority with the votes of Vox. The PSOE, with 122 deputies, and Sumar, with 31, need the support of all the parties that have established themselves as government partners in the previous legislature and, in addition, at least the abstention of Junts, which does not rule out voting ‘no’ to an investiture of Sánchez and leading the game to an electoral repetition.

“A campaign has been carried out with two blocks. The block of the PP and Abascal and that of the PSOE and Sumar, which has said that we are going to govern”, Yolanda Díaz said today to demand respect for democracy. “Article 99 of the Constitution says that we are not presidential and that we need to seek the votes of other formations,” she said. “Politics is this. They are political proposals and support is sought on that proposal. Spain is diverse and plural. This is what has become clear in the campaign and in the electoral result”, insisted the acting second vice president of the Government.

Díaz, in line with what Urtasun advanced on Monday, prioritizes the electoral program over the portfolios that will correspond to Sumar. “They know us and we are going to negotiate about the contents. ”We have already worked on everything we want to do these four years. Once we have the that let’s go with who. We will look for the best. When we reach an agreement with the PSOE on what we are going to do, we will say who is going to accompany that project”, the leader of Sumar specified.

Díaz has advanced that for this task and while they are trying to get the support of Junts, he has already chosen a team to negotiate with the Socialists that he will announce in the coming days, although he has not specified whether representatives of the political formations that make up the electoral coalition will be included in that team. And regarding the contents, he has advanced the concerns of his political space: “It is impossible to make the shopping cart. We have four million people with mortgages that have been revalued”. Díaz has also talked about the reduction of the working day or proposals such as the universal inheritance for young people that they incorporated into his program.

Due to parliamentary logic and the electoral results, the abstention of the seven Junts deputies becomes essential to achieve this investiture. This Monday, Sumar announced that he had entrusted Jaume Asens with the task of starting talks directly with the leader of the post-convergent groups, Carles Puigdemont, to try to unlock that negotiation. “We believe that with his knowledge of the Catalan political reality, as well as his good relationship with many of the spaces called to understand each other, it will be easier to reach an agreement,” say coalition sources. Although in Junts they affirm that the relationship with the leader of the communes, who this time did not appear on the lists of Congress, they clarify that after the elections there have been no contacts.

Díaz answers Belarra

The leader of Sumar has replied to the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, who yesterday regretted that the results obtained by the recently created coalition did not exceed the worst result of United We Can in a general, that of four years ago, in November 2019, with 35 deputies and 3.1 million votes. Yolanda Díaz has defended that Sumar is the first time that she is running for elections to try to avoid comparisons and then she has pointed out that in the last electoral process, on 28M, the options of United We Can only added 1 million votes.

“I think that the parties are masters of their words. The last electoral process United We Can obtained 1 million votes. Today our country is much better. I know that in progressive people there is a lot of satisfaction. Sumar was born with a clear vocation”, stated the minister, who also answered the second leg of Belarra’s analysis yesterday (that the invisibility of Podemos and feminism in the campaign had not been electorally successful). “Feminism has been the most important emancipatory movement for far too long. There are many women who have been working for a long time. It belongs to no one. It does not fall into the traps of the extreme right to divide us.

“Sumar is the first time it has been presented and in two months it has obtained more than 3 million votes. I want to be cautious but like this. We do not settle; We are going to more and we are going to go to more ”, she has closed.

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