The Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, has announced this Saturday, closing the listening process with which Spain has traveled under the slogan "Add up" that the thousand people organized in 35 working groups that have accompanied her " already has a project to win a country", a dream, he said, "in which there is no one left over".
"We have ideas, imagination, hope and we want to dream because when you don't dream there is no future. Faced with a change of era, we have to change public policies. We want to change Spain with its own diversity and accents. We need everyone, this is not going to win elections, but to win a country, and for that there is no one left over", Díaz asserted.
In his final speech at the only Sumar act held in the Canary Islands, and which will be followed next Sunday in Madrid by the official presentation of his candidacy for the Presidency of the Spanish Government, Díaz stressed that anyone who wants to join this project is welcome , "Think what you think, because nobody is asked for a card".
Yolanda Díaz stressed that Sumar's mission is "to care for the people who are outside", not to talk about himself, for which he stressed that "a country is not won by defending a stretcher table and talking about electoral lists". .
Before more than half a thousand people who packed the hall of the Mercantile Circle of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, among which were representatives of Equo, Proyecto Drago, Podemos, Reunir, Izquierda Unida and Los Verdes, as well as the CCOO and UGT unions , Díaz has said that "the important thing is to demonstrate to this country that although we have nuances, diversity is wealth."
"They don't want us to think the same, they want us to walk together", he asserted to ensure that if "we show, also in the Canary Islands, that we are up to the historic time in which we have had to live, we are going to win the country, be happy and love people."
Yolanda Díaz recalled that her listening process began in her land, Lugo, the periphery of Spain, of which she feels very proud, and has assured that she wanted it to culminate in the Canary Islands, the outermost periphery of the EU, a diverse land of The one who has also said she is very proud and the one who came during the pandemic, has said, "when she thought it was important, not to sign the La Palma employment plan."
The Minister of Labor has highlighted that the Government of Spain has defended the Canary Islands when their tourism fell with more than 4,000 million euros that have served so that 38% of the workers of the Islands could take advantage of an ERTE, although it has estimated that "it is not decent" that in this region youth unemployment, which has been reduced by 10 points in this legislature, continues to be 39% "due to public policies of the 20th and 21st centuries that have decided the dependence of a single sector production: tourism", while industry represents only 5% of GDP.
Díaz celebrated that the Canary Islands have the largest number of employed people in history, close to one million people, and that it also registers a record number of female workers, although he has considered that "there is a lot to do", since the enormous weakness of its economy persists Therefore, Sumar "defends a different productive model, also for the Canary Islands, that generates wealth in a democratic way and is respectful of the environment."
"We want to be a country committed to the decarbonization of the economy and the promotion of renewable energies, however, we also want this model to be democratic, not oligopolistic because three large multinationals are making gold" with this necessary transition, a sector , he said, in which we must also start talking about job creation.
In the opinion of Yolanda Díaz, "of course, the Canary Islands have all the future they want to be given, but they have to close gaps and inequalities, deciding with public resources a change in production model that respects their unique culture."
