Vitoria (EFE) of the workers so that we never return to a country with an unemployment rate of 27%.
At a rally in the Plaza de la Burullería in Vitoria, where he has brought together close to a thousand people, Díaz has warned that the measures of cuts and tax cuts championed by the PP “are failed policies” that “almost caused the bankruptcy of the United Kingdom.
Feijóo “lies permanently”, according to Díaz. “He says that he is going to lower taxes on income of less than 40,000 euros: well, it is not true (…) The only thing that (his program) says black on white is that he is going to eliminate the tax that is levied on large fortunes,” he added. .
The second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor has not spared reproaches to her partner in the Executive, the PSOE, who said “that raising the Minimum Interprofessional Wage was going to bankrupt the Spanish economy.”
“The partner of the Government told us that the price of electricity could not be limited, he told us that it was unconstitutional, that Europe did not allow it, that you could not act on the benefits that fell from heaven,” Díaz continued, to later defend that thanks to the ‘Iberian exception’ Spain has “the lowest inflation in the European Union”.
Then he snapped at the PSOE that “it is not enough to bet on renewable energies”, since it must be accompanied by “democracy in the energy oligopoly”, and he wondered if he would have managed to carry out the labor reform “in a bipartisan Spain”.
Díaz has also asserted that he wants to “win a country” in which “not everything goes through Madrid” and that embraces its plurinationality, and has made ugly the right that is “afraid” of linguistic diversity.
Also alluding to the weight of the secondary sector in the Basque Country, Díaz stated that he wants to “favor the industrialization of our country, but changing the production model so that it is sustainable and green”.
Podemos takes center stage in the campaign
It is now, a week before the elections, when Podemos begins to gain prominence in the Díaz campaign, who today has landed for the first time in one of the thirteen provinces where the head of the list corresponds to the purple party, in this case Guillermo Presa .
While Díaz was speaking in the Basque capital, the general secretary of Podemos and number 5 of Sumar for Madrid, Ione Belarra, was in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria speaking at her first rally so far this campaign.
The act of Díaz in Vitoria has had the participation of the heads of the Sumar list in the three Basque provinces, so in addition to Presa, Pilar Garrido, deputy of United We Can in the last legislature, general coordinator of Podemos Euskadi, has been present and number 1 of Sumar for Gipuzkoa.
Presa and Garrido are among the Podemos members most likely to win a seat on 23-J.
As for the number 1 for Bizkaia, Lander Martínez, he was a key figure of Podemos in the Basque Country, serving as regional secretary general and spokesman in the autonomous Parliament, but he ended up leaving his posts in the party and now leads the list for his constituency representing the sumar quota.
The Basque Country has always been a fertile territory for Podemos, which in the general elections of 2015 and 2016 was the force with the most votes in this autonomy. And Álava was especially good at it, reaching more than 30% of the vote in 2016.
In both 2015 and 2016 and in the two 2019 elections, Podemos won a seat for Álava, and that deputy had always been Juantxo López de Uralde, first leader of Equo and then Alianza Verde, and whose exclusion from Sumar’s lists It has been one of the most controversial in the gestation of the coalition.
THE DETAIL: Díaz has arrived in Vitoria just a couple of hours after the PP candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, did, who has offered a speech before his supporters a kilometer away from the square where the rally of Add.
THE AGENDA: This afternoon Díaz will give a rally in Gijón and tomorrow he will return to the capital, where he has planned one of the main acts of his campaign. La Nave de Villaverde will be the setting for a meeting that will be attended by Mónica García, Íñigo Errejón and Isa Serra, among others.