A Coruña, Jul 6 (EFE).- Surrounded by her loved ones and speaking in Galician, Yolanda Díaz has started Sumar’s electoral campaign this Thursday in her native Galicia, where she has asked for a vote that “is worth double”, because it will serve to ” win rights” and to “have a progressive government”.
Around 2,000 people, according to Sumar, have gathered at the Explanada do Parrote in A Coruña to attend the launch of a campaign that officially starts at midnight and which, in the case of Sumar, will focus on “little things”.
“Go out and vote on July 23 in defense of your rights,” Díaz proclaimed, stressing that Sumar “is not known for insulting” but for being “the only candidacy that is making proposals to improve the lives of the people”.
Less than 50 kilometers from Fene, the town on the Ferrol estuary where she was born, the second vice president of the Government recalled that she has “a hate coalition” in front of her, made up of Vox and the PP, whose candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, intends to “rule for those above”.
Speaking of Feijóo in Galicia, Díaz has not resisted mentioning the thirteen years of the ‘popular’ at the head of the regional Executive. “In Madrid they think that Feijóo is a good ruler,” the vice president ironized to the laughter of the audience.
Díaz pointed out that his father, his daughter and his friends are in Galicia, and today there was also the former mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau, one of his soul mates in politics, and who symbolically closes the list of Adding to Congress for Barcelona.
In his speech, in which he alternated between Catalan and Spanish, Colau thanked Díaz for his “revolutionary act” of forming a great coalition “in this context of polarization and confrontation”, and asked him to form a government that recognizes the diversity of Spain “as a positive value”.
The rally has focused on some of the closest collaborators to the vice president. For example, Verónica Martínez Barbero, who during the legislature has been general director of Labor under Díaz, and who is now running in the elections as number 1 for Pontevedra.
And then it was the turn of Marta Lois, number 1 for A Coruña and a figure of maximum confidence for Díaz, to the point of having been chosen to appear as president of Sumar in the initial phase of this newborn party.
Both choose to get a seat in Congress: the constituencies of A Coruña and Pontevedra have always distributed at least one seat to the left of the PSOE since the ‘tides’ broke out in 2015.
In fact, Yolanda Díaz’s own debut in Congress occurred after attending the 2016 general elections as number 2 of Podemos-En Marea-Anova-EU for A Coruña.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT: In the first of his two interventions at the rally, Díaz has announced that he has proposed to the other candidates for the elections a State pact against artistic censorship and in support of creative freedom.
THE ANECDOTE: The act had the unforeseen presence of the actress Marisa Paredes, who warned that something “as immense” as freedom “cannot be allowed to be crushed”.
THE AGENDA: Tomorrow, Sumar’s caravan moves to Zaragoza, where Díaz will give a rally escorted by the number 1 of the party for said province, Jorge Pueyo, and the IU MEP Sira Rego.