After this Sunday’s electoral failure in the European elections, the second vice president and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Diaz, has decided to assume responsibilities. In an appearance before the media without questions, Díaz announced his decision to leave organic positions in Sumar, his political project promoted just over a year ago. “The citizens have spoken and I am going to take charge,” she said to announce that she will step down as general coordinator of Sumar.
After 9-J, Yolanda Díaz has once again experienced a new electoral failure. With just over a year of life, the vice president’s project has been losing steam and she is already faltering. First were the elections in Galicia, in which Marta Lois, her candidate, was left out of the Galician Parliament. In the Basque Country, it only got one parliamentarian and in Catalonia, the coalition with the Commons lost two seats, going from eight to six.
And this Sunday, again, was a bad day for those of the second vice president and Minister of Labor. Sumar obtained almost the same votes as Alvise Pérez (The party is over): the Sevillian agitator got 800,763 ballots compared to Sumar’s 811,545. Díaz’s coalition took 4.65% of the votes in the European Parliament elections, compared to 3.27% for Podemos, which was one seat away from matching Sumar.
In this sense, Yolanda Díaz has left this Monday a position in which she had only been three months, since it was in March of this year when she was ratified in the Constituent Assembly of the party as coordinator. The vice president’s intention is to continue in the Government, since she has “a lot to advance” to achieve results like those obtained in the general elections of June 23, when the coalition obtained 31 seats.
Díaz has maintained that for the left “it is not worth remaining on the defensive” or “going out to tie” in the elections in a context in which “the international hate in its different expressions” is gaining ground, in reference to Vox or Alvise Pérez . ”My obligation, therefore, is to guarantee that the progressive coalition Government converts this sea of bottom full of hatred and disaffection into a wave of rights and hope because I am convinced that this Government is the best tool to improve people’s lives. “, he defended to clarify that he will continue in the rest of his positions.
In her analysis of the Sumar results, the outgoing coordinator has regretted the participation data for the European elections (barely one 49.21% of the participation). “Citizens are not wrong when they vote and they are not wrong if they decide not to vote,” he stressed, attributing the abstention to the responsibility of politicians. Also to herself.
However, Díaz has acknowledged that in “these months I feel that I have not done the things I should have done and the things I know how to do best. The citizens have undoubtedly perceived it”. Likewise, he has regretted that “politics” has dedicated “much more to itself than to the problems of citizens.”
Within the coalition government, no longer as leader of Sumar, Díaz has promised that he will fight against political disaffection and “the opportunism and cynicism” of the right and extreme right. Among the challenges to be met, the second vice president has focused on the regulation of housing prices for ownership and rental, reducing working hours, a tax reform so that “those who have the most pay,” paid leave for dependent children. to fight child poverty and end the genocide in Palestine.
