Madrid (EFE).- The second vice president of the Government and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, has defended a series of immediate measures to alleviate the heat wave, such as air conditioning all educational centers and prohibiting classes when the thermometer exceeds 30 degrees.
“Teaching cannot be taught at 40 degrees, or 35 or 30, it is not possible in these conditions, we have to air-condition the schools immediately, not only in Andalusia and Extremadura,” Díaz denounced this Tuesday at the open meeting that has held with climate activists, scientists and workers affected by heat waves.
Precisely yesterday a farmer died due to high temperatures, a phenomenon that Díaz has denounced, recalling that last year 4,700 workers perished due to heat waves, a figure that exceeds, according to the Minister of Labor, that registered by accidents. road.
Nursing homes and working with alerts
Other of the measures that make up Sumar’s “shock plan” is the one that concerns nursing homes, places where neither workers nor users can “live” in extreme conditions, for which Díaz has requested palliative measures .
“No one should and cannot die as a result of the heat wave,” he lamented.
He has also made a tour of the regulations already adopted, such as the one that prohibits working both indoors and outdoors when there is an orange and red alert.
Other measures of Sumar’s “green” plan
And following Sumar’s “green” plan, it has announced another that consists of lightening bureaucratic procedures for those who want to rehabilitate their homes and has denounced the ignorance on the part of six out of 10 people of the existence of such aid.
Díaz has also compared his “green” project on which his electoral campaign of Sumar this 23J will be based, against the one proposed by the PP, one that he has described as “toxic” for defending nuclear energy and metaphorically, for incorporate Vox into governments.
“The PP of Feijóo maintains a toxic idea, they are willing to extend the life of the nuclear power plants… In the face of the toxic ideas of the PP, in the face of the radioactive waste that it incorporates into its governments, the hope of the green project of Sumar”, according to Diaz.
The minister has stressed that nuclear energy “is not safe”, at the same time that it puts people’s lives at risk, it is not cheap and it is not even profitable for companies in the sector.