The current second vice president and Minister of Labor made her objectives clear in an act of launching Sumar this Sunday in Madrid
Havana, Apr 2 (RHC) Although it was an open secret, Yolanda Díaz, leader of Sumar, Spain's new political platform, confirmed today that she aspires to be the first female president of the Iberian country.
With a high level of popularity, the current second vice president and Minister of Labor of the Government, made her objectives clear in an act of launching Sumar this Sunday in Madrid.
“I think I can be useful to my country, to our people. That's why I'm going to take a step forward. I want to be the first president of my country, the first female president of Spain," she said. “If you want it, we will get it. It is the time of women, we want to be protagonists of history”, specified the 51-year-old Galician lawyer.
The transversal project is located, according to local observers, to the left of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), with a clear identification with Izquierda Unida (IU) and certain discrepancies with Podemos.
Díaz is expected to be a rival of the current ruler, Pedro Sánchez (PSOE leader) and another Galician, Alberto Núñez Feijoo, president of the conservative Popular Party (PP), in the elections for the Moncloa Palace chair at the end of this year.
At the moment, the predictions give the PP a slight advantage, although with a possible alliance with the extreme right of Vox, and in the bid between Sánchez and Díaz, the PSOE has an advantage, which could repeat the case of winning another administration in alliances.
Although Yolanda Díaz was the piece used by the former head of Podemos and vice president, Pablo Iglesias, to fill his vacancy when he went to look for the Government of the Community of Madrid, there was a break with the Sumar platform.
Sumar has the support of a dozen left-wing organizations and defends the positions of Galician politics, a tireless negotiator prone to compromise, dialogue in a discreet tone and, as far as possible, far from the noise of the media.
Izquierda Unida (IU), Más País, Los Comunes, Compromís, the Aragonese Chunta, Batzarre, Drago, Verdes Equo, Movement for Dignity and Citizenship of Ceuta and the European Green Party ratified today they are within Sumar.
For her part, the influential mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, was one of the figures at the event, where she expressed her absolute support for Yolanda Díaz.
The Sumar leader took advantage of her speech to stress the importance of reducing the 40-hour work week without lowering wages; LGTBI people having recognized rights; continuing advancing with women, free of economic violence, with free abortion and in public health centers.
“Sumar is especially Europeanist, but we want a greener, more social, more feminist Europe, which is why today Sumar adds to Europe with new coordinates,” she stated. He also proposed defeating neoliberalism, expanding democracy, turning Spain into a green power and achieving decent housing for citizens in the Iberian country. (Source: Prensa Latina)
