Yolanda Díaz, about Sumar: "Podemos was born from the challenge, I look for the construction"

Yolanda Díaz, about Sumar: "Podemos was born from the challenge, I look for the construction"

The Second Vice President and Minister of Labour, Yolanda Díaz, has vindicated this Sunday the differences between the Sumar platform, which presented this Friday at the Matadero in Madrid, and we can. "Podemos is born from the challenge and I start from the construction", she has assured in an interview with El Pais.

"The progressive forces have felt comfortable in saying no, in opposing, in challenging the contrary," the vice president assured. Díaz has explained that the "citizen movement" that she has decided to launch is going to be "a small piece of the collective gear in which I not only deconstruct the challenge, but also want to build it." "In the context in which Podemos emerged, it was normal for the challenge to be echoed. Now it is different."

Asked if it is necessary to reconfigure the political space of United We Can, the minister assured that "it is not about recovering spaces, but about expanding democracy, making our society livable and turning politics into something useful".

This Friday, Díaz began the journey of Sumar in Madrid, the process of listening to citizens that will take him the next six months to tour the whole of Spain in different acts with social groups with which he seeks to configure his political project. She did it in a massive act with the assistance of more than 5,000 people, and without leaders of the parties that support her – those that form United We Can and More Country –, just as she wanted, to give the leading role to the citizens.

The vice president explained in the interview that Sumar is a movement in which "the leading role is going to fall on the citizens." "I want a beloved country, a better Spain in which we all fit, let's think how we think. The conception that there is of Spain by some voices is very small, very sad. And I want a Spain like the one this week, that of Pride , diverse, in which we think differently, that we have a future, that, ultimately, we are happier".

When the process of listening by the country is over, Díaz will decide if he takes the step and runs as a candidate for the Presidency of the Government representing the political space to the left of the PSOE. The term to set up your project is one year. In 2023, the different 'Sumar' working groups, which will be made up of representatives of civil society, will present a proposal for a "new social contract" that aims to shape what Spain will be like in the next decade.

"I will row in favor as one more and collectively we will do what we want to be," explained Díaz when asked if the decision not to clarify whether he will stand for election could harm his project. The vice president has assured that now is the time to "open a space for thought" about "the country we want."

Yolanda Díaz has claimed the transversality of her project. "I do not want corners. I am a moderate woman in the forms and in the contents", she has assured. "This country in favor we have to do with many hands, many music, many hearts and many different ways of understanding each other. As in the exceptional moments of history, what is at stake is democracy."

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