Sumar's candidate Yolanda Díaz came to Catalonia yesterday to demand the vote of the Catalans in favor of "a country of countries, plurinational", and against the claims of the ultra-right, which, as the presidential candidate recalled, is willing to worsen the situation in Catalonia. "We are not going to allow Vox to set Catalonia on fire, so go out and vote for Sumar," she claimed.
In a massive event held at La Farga de L'Hospitalet, which brought together more than 2,000 people, Yolanda Díaz was accompanied by her faithful Catalan allies from En Comú Podem, led by former mayor Ada Colau and the candidate for Barcelona, Aina Vidal, among a cast of all-female participants. The candidate made a plea in favor of the diversity of Spain, of its plurinationality expressed, for example, in the various languages spoken in the country. “A country of countries, is what we are. Galician, Catalan, Valencian, diverse people, a multinational country and we must be more than ever ”, she proclaimed.
The candidate claimed the right to "speak the language that we want" in contrast to the controversies that have arisen in recent weeks as a result of the pacts between PP and Vox in autonomous communities such as Valencia, Extremadura or the Balearic Islands. "They are banning plays, comics, in Catalan... Go out and vote for the diversity of our country" because "Spain is better, we earn more when we are diverse," she claimed.
Díaz asked the Catalans to "concentrate" the vote on Sumar because "only by having a strong Sumar can we place Vox in the opposition." And here he warned of the threat, declared by Santiago Abascal, that the ultra-right represents for Catalonia. "We are not going to allow the gentlemen of Vox to set Catalonia on fire," she assured, and she was convinced that between her party and Vox, "the Catalans are going to lean towards Sumar."
The candidate recommitted herself to dialogue between governments that is capable of "doing something great," she said, "reaching an agreement once and for all for the Catalans and something else," she said, "when we have an agreement, the Catalans will vote for it." In this way, the presidential candidate strengthened her commitment to dialogue, versed in the campaign, without committing to a self-determination referendum, but only to endorse the agreement that arises from the dialogue table that is currently in hibernation.
Yolanda Díaz proclaimed herself the winner of this Wednesday's debate on RVTE and denounced the way the Vox leader had to speak to her. But she also warned that things "are not going well" for the PP candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo this week, in which his absence in that debate has something to do with it. As he said, Feijóo "only knows how to do one thing in politics, lie, lie and lie" and "he has had a bad week", so "they are going to lose the elections." "They are nervous, they thought they were going to sweep and things are not going well for them, they are going to lose the elections," she reaffirmed.
For her part, the former mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, highlighted the importance of the 48 deputies elected in Catalonia in these elections and explained why, in her opinion, Sumar should be chosen within the progressive bloc. Colau claimed that when the PSOE defends the management of the coalition government, it always refers to "all the laws that Yolanda Díaz and our political space have promoted", including pardons, the dialogue table, the reform of the Penal Code, the labor reform, policies in favor of women, the LGTBI collective, "All are claimed by the PSOE and I celebrate it, but it has all been thanks to our existence," he remarked.
The president of the En Comú Podem parliamentary group, Jéssica Albiach, made a plea in favor of women, of all kinds, from grandmothers, mothers, workers, those exploited by mafias, those who suffer all kinds of violence and harassment, stigmatized bisexuals and lesbians, trans women, "who are women, let it be clear," she said. For all of them, Albiach claimed the vote for Sumar. Even "for all the Galician mothers who stood up to the drug trafficker who was ruining the lives of their children while Feijóo was sailing with him," she said, referring to the PP candidate's relationship with the drug trafficker Marcial Dorado.
The candidate for Barcelona, Aina Vidal, made it clear that Pedro Sánchez cannot win without Yolanda Díaz and that they have an enormous responsibility, "which is to win". Too
