After days of ceasefire, Yolanda Díaz over the past 48 hours sharpened her speech to the PSOE, her government partner, and is now trying to highlight the differences between the two. During a rally in Valencia this Saturday, the leader of Sumar has raised regional funding – a very sensitive issue for Compromís, which tops the lists of the coalition in this municipality –, housing or pensions, urging the undecided to choose Sumar against a PP-PSOE bipartisanship that he said has a “centralist soul”. “Go to the vote on 23-J to defend your rights, because the PP and the PSOE will not do that,” he shouted to a packed hall where more than a thousand people were seated and at least another 200 remained outside without space.
During his only stay in the Valencian Community this election campaign, Díaz, together with the leader of Más País, Íñigo Errejón, and the formation’s candidates (Àgueda Micó and Txema Guijarro, among others), has promised to make changes to this system of funding already in 2024 To the rhythm of the fanfare and on the same day that has passed a year since the launch of Sumar as a civic platform, the second vice-president also “claimed” the action of the PSOE, Compromís and Valencian government. Unides Podem in the last four years and has called to “win with a landslide victory these people who limit their rights”, alluding to the pacts of the PP and Vox in autonomies like the Valencian one after the May 28 elections.
The vice-president appealed to undecided left-wing voters by stressing that there were “differences” between Sumar and the PSOE. “Housing is one of them,” he noted, recalling his commitment to capping rents in troubled areas across Spain (for which he intends to amend the current housing law, passed in May and leaving it to the Autonomous Communities). Decision). The President has been particularly forceful in questioning the Socialists about their openness to pushing the retirement age to 70, a proposal made by the Círculo de Empresarios this week, to which Finance Minister María Jesús Montero responded by saying that “these are debates that must be approached with composure.” “Get out there and vote to tell them we won’t let this happen, that we will continue to gain rights, upgrade pensions and continue to live with dignity,” demanded the vice president.
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“Do you think the minimum wage would have gone up 47% if we hadn’t been in government?” asked Díaz. “No,” the public replied. “Sumar represents the workers of this country,” stressed the candidate, who had asked the Honorable two more times with the same result whether there would have been an ERTE or labor reform in the ministry without her. “I ask you to vote to add those who have doubts. It is doubly worthwhile: to represent the people behind us and because we are the only guarantee of a progressive coalition government,” he affirmed.
The event took place at the Olympia Theater in the heart of the city, the same auditorium that hosted the 2021 meeting that formed the starting point for Sumar’s current project. And there the memory that reminded the number two for Valencia, Alberto Ibáñez, of the figure of then Compromís leader and Valencian vice-president Mónica Oltra – out of politics today after she was accused of allegedly covering up the sexual abuse of her ex-husband made everyone stand up.
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“Valencia is the worst funded autonomous community in the Spanish state. You are underfunded. I’m just going to give you one piece of information today,” Díaz said, echoing his famous phrase from the government’s control sessions in Congress. “They get 178 euros less per inhabitant than the national average.” We will now work to ensure adequate funding for the Valencian Community,” stressed the vice-president, who later specified that they “take out the papers” and it next year would “fix” when they reign. The leader of Sumar believes that PP and PSOE have decided not to change the system, even though it should have been renewed 14 years ago, because “they have a centralist soul and a drive where everything is decided in Madrid.” When you talk about funding in Valencia, it’s about schools without barracks, about dignified health care. We need to talk about funding so that we can improve the lives of Valencians,” he stressed.
Díaz has again filed charges against Vox, which presented an election program this Friday in which it advocates, among other things, the repeal of the abortion law. “Lately everyone has been saying I’m dangerous,” he said, referring to criticism from Santiago Abascal (President of the Ultra formation) and Gabriel Rufián (ERC candidate). “What happens is that there are gentlemen who are afraid of free women.”
In constituencies like Castellón, as in much of Spain, Sumar is in contention for third place at 23-J, which could be crucial to the final result. Although polls like the 40dB. For EL PAÍS and SER they continue to position the left formation as the fourth force. Coalition sources believe that the pact between the PP and Vox to form the government in the Valencian Community served to “mobilize the left” and point out that Díaz’s campaign “goes from less to more”.
“We won the intellectual and moral battle,” Errejón defended for his part. Firstly, because he thinks he has managed to set an agenda and talk about his proposals in this campaign, such as the right to housing or the reduction of the working day. Second, because the left, which met the elections with “sadness and resignation,” has already begun to “smile” at a possible “comeback” on the 23rd.
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