València (EFE).- The Second Vice President of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, celebrated this Saturday the first anniversary of Sumar, the new party with which she is running for the elections, and has asked for the vote to “add much more” and ” win by a landslide” to a right that “is restricting rights in our country.”
“Lately, everyone says that I am dangerous (…), what happens is that there are gentlemen in this country who are afraid of free women,” Díaz declared in a speech where he said he represented a “majority social” that should go to the polls “with hope”.
Díaz, who already aspires to endow his party with its own mythology, has chosen the Olympia Theater in Valencia for his central campaign event, the scene of one of the founding milestones of what we know today as Sumar.
From “Other policies” to Add
This was where, in November 2021, Díaz starred in the act ‘Other policies’ together with Mónica Oltra, Ada Colau, Mónica García and Fátima Hamed, an appointment where Podemos was absent and which many saw, even then, as the launch of a separate project of the purple address.
And today the symbolism was double, since it was exactly one year since Díaz officially launched Sumar in an act in the Plaza del Matadero in Madrid.
Now the vice president presents Sumar as the key tool to maintain the progressive character of the Executive; for example, shielding retirement at 65 years of age, imposing a limitation on rental prices or raising the minimum interprofessional wage more, in line with other measures announced in her electoral program.
“People’s lives”, Díaz has pointed out, “is not about fights between politicians”, but about having “a decent job”, “a decent salary” and good public services.
He has not forgotten to wink at the local public, and has assured that he will promote a reform of regional financing so that the Valencian Community ceases to be the “worst financed region in the Spanish State”.
The number 1 of Sumar for Valencia, Águeda Micó (Compromís), has promised to represent a “Valencianist voice” in Congress, with a list of demands for the region that includes reforming its financing system, transferring the management of the Cercanías , a law of linguistic equality, recognize a Valencian Civil Code or paralyze the expansion of the port of Valencia.
Errejón: “The PSOE, if left alone, will get confused”
The rally has also had the participation of the leader of Más País and number 4 of Sumar for Madrid, Íñigo Errejón, who has addressed those who doubt which left-wing force to vote for. “The PSOE, if left alone, will be misled,” said the deputy, criticizing that the president, Pedro Sánchez, proposed elections based on stopping the right and “not going back.”
Even admitting that the electoral call took Sumar “with a changed step”, Errejón has stressed that the coalition has already achieved a double “moral” and “intellectual” victory, by focusing on “everyday life” a campaign that “went on the Falcon, it was about ETA or it was about whether the 2030 Agenda was a Judeo-Masonic conspiracy”.
Lastly, number 2 of Sumar for Valencia, Alberto Ibáñez, drew a standing ovation from the public for the former regional vice-president Mónica Oltra, who was attending the rally in the front row of the stalls.