“There is a certain harmony between you and me,” Jordi Évole told Yolanda Díaz when the program aired this Sunday on La Sexta began. And to the viewers, we were like, “Oh, be careful.” When the Catalan journalist, with his casual manner and his embrace with daggers, envelops, the danger for the interviewee can be smelled. Then he told him an anecdote with Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, in which they had thought about something similar and, more or less, the socialist leader, one of the smartest politicians in the history of Spain, ended up regretting having accepted the challenge.
Based on that narrow and ambiguous tone, informal but dynamite, the program began with an announcement. Anyone who knows him knows what he is exposed to. And today is the day that even the viewers still wonder how it is possible that those who risk accept to leave. This travel set is a minefield.
This time the scene was a Japanese restaurant. They sought an introduction of the yakuza mafia to herald what would be the Gordian knot we would face: an internal family division that cried out for unity. The progressive forces in Spain are doing the same today, except for the PSOE, and note that I don’t say left because Yolanda Díaz strives to scrape across the spectrum, even to conquer the centre-right. Why not?
They served a light menu but they ate nothing. Sushi was waiting on the table. Yolanda Díaz warned that she doesn’t eat meat, perhaps hoping not to be eaten. He came with a light blue shirt that brings him good luck because his father gave it to him. Yes, Suso Díaz, the historical Galician trade unionist who often sends her packages of clothes from Ferrol so that she does not feel so alone in Madrid and feels her father’s warm embrace.
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Yolanda came nervous from a security council where she had fallen out with the king. Évole threw warm-up balls that were easy to answer and in which he tried to make her feel comfortable. After a while the tuning thing popped out and that sort of released the parts. A defense mechanism was probably activated in the mind of the Sumar leader: In which direction will she shoot?
Jordi Évole, during his interview with Yolanda Díaz.
They talked about Pedro Sánchez… All good, except that in their undisguised transparency they probably escaped unwanted statements or reactions. Díaz made it clear that both he and Pablo Iglesias felt like macho politicians in some ways. “Very manly,” he later qualified. Évole smelled blood. But this position suits her because she appears within the progressive spectrum to exercise alternative leadership to those who bang the table and put their attributes at the top of the brava.
Are Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias two killers? “They are good at making politics, so I’m the one who distorts,” says Díaz. The same who had made it clear in the act of presenting Sumar: “I belong to nobody, women belong to nobody.” A set that can mark a before and after on the left, traditionally supplied to be led by men.
She also said that the fact that Iglesias once fingered her struck her as disrespectful. “I’m going to screw up your life,” he told her metaphorically. There Évole entered to kill. Very skillful and graceful. “What he didn’t tell her is that so much…”. He went from the brutal parable to the actual reality of the matter, because really, from the disguised leadership in Podemos, Iglesias is screwing himself.
no stories
Because? Everything went well there. Évole switched from fencing to axe striking. Half an hour of the program was devoted to this topic and little else. A dramatic pulse where the journalist doesn’t seem to have found what he was looking for, but politics left some strong messages: two disagree when one doesn’t want to; that he knows when to attack her every time he alludes to her on social media or in his media diatribes; that she is fed up with guardianships; that despite his intelligence he is a grump; this unity cannot be required on a clean pie; that his people do not understand that they do not go together …
Iglesias has long passed from idealism to nihilism. That said, if there was somehow a time when he harbored transformative intentions in his words and actions, today’s is brutally destructive. Because of narcissism? Due to poor digestion of what it could represent in its spectrum? That he doesn’t support the alternative to himself gathering more unity than he was capable of? It does not matter. The fact is that the woman he bets for with vision and knowledge of her qualities has become a reference. Not just in hope.
Because what to expect from Yolanda Díaz is verifiable. It’s a character who denigrates what they call a story, the feat favored in vogue by political scientists. The story had to be told… The promises, the tricks, the mandangas. Díaz bases his entire arsenal on facts, on results from which he later builds his own indisputable arguments based on his own actions. no stories And he has an enormous legacy, carved in a few years, under the most unfavorable circumstances. Therefore, it is difficult to disassemble. Évole tried it in the last half hour of the show. It was close, but it ran aground.
Previously, he had stung her with a certain art: “You said that you don’t want to become a minister or a vice president or a candidate would you not be one of those who left the exams with the statement that it came out fatally struck and then get a grade? Because that was very angry.” A pure house brand dart.
A moment from “Lo de Évole” with Yolanda Díaz.
His persistence in wanting to take his share of the blame in the war against Podemos made his nervousness go away. We’ve seen a badass Yolanda Díaz before, but with clear ideas about the war in Ukraine: for the defense of those attacked and without a doubt about who the attacker is, without making rhetorical smuts of outdated leftists before the fall of the wall. Also against Minister Marlaska and the new policy towards Morocco and the Sahara.
There were nice interludes. They called Alberto Casero, the PP MP who, by mistake, had promoted labor reform, to thank him. Maruja Torres intervened by asking her to smile less. The leader of Sumar finds it genetically impossible, but Évole snuffed out their joy and revealed their transparency. A weapon that serves you because it brings out clear ideas, foundation, tenacity but also sensitivity, what hurts you, what worries you, with a touch of rare authenticity. No poses, no artificiality.
The drama ended with a smile, of course. But the viewer wanted to know a little more about the intimate aspects of a woman aspiring to become a governor. Not so much from the weapons we see her using every day to defend herself against this alpha male politics. Who is Yolanda Diaz? read what what do you see what do you hear How do you carry that sack of contradictions and paradoxes that pushes you to say you don’t want it but ends up convinced you should? What did your parents teach you? As a mother, what do you learn from your daughter? what do you think about love How much life have you put into your work as an employment lawyer…?
The footage went towards a different port, more sterile, unsympathetic and abrupt, but with that in mind it’s ultimately worth asking when we’ll have an Évole program where Pablo Iglesias – the real leader of this faction – is being so pressured will Explain why you are willing to partially destroy what you have achieved by insisting on dividing the left?
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