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The presence of the second vice president of the Government, Pablo Iglesias, was expected in the Catalan campaign after the leaders of other formations with national representation came en masse to support the autonomous candidates this first week.
However, in a strategy of showing the independence of the Catalan 'commons' with respect to their partners in Madrid, the leader of de Podemos appeared at the central act of the campaign when there were only six days left for its conclusion.
And he did so by taking his chest out of the social and economic policies carried out by the Government during the health crisis caused by the coronavirus in what he described as "telling the truth even though they may be uncomfortable."
In his enumeration to continue with "the bloody truth", Iglesias highlighted the examples of the coalition governments in which his formation or the 'commons' is part, such as that of Spain or that of the Barcelona City Council with Ada Colau to demonstrate that they can improve the lives of citizens, despite acknowledging that "it is not making revolution."
In an act in Santa Coloma de Gramenet with Ada Colau and the candidate of the 'commons' for the Presidency of the Generalitat, Jéssica Albiach, Pablo Iglesias sought to distance himself from his socialist partners by asking the left-wing voter to reflect on when "the The media arms of power have pushed any candidate who is willing to make changes that could affect large economic interests. "
Among the examples of management that the vice president presented is the law of 'only if it is yes' and he regretted the contrary criticism received from various groups of transsexuals, since it is one of the groups that has experienced the most "painful situations".
That is why he urged to carry out a "decent law for trans" by detailing that "gender identity and sexual orientation" are not "whims".
"It is not right to tell trans people that they are a kind of choice" because "no one chooses to suffer or that they make it difficult for them," in reference to the statements of the first vice president, Carmen Calvo, who was concerned that the law Trans that the Executive prepares allows to choose the gender "without more than the mere will or desire."
Iglesias also defended public companies, since "they work better than private ones" and gave an example of the electricity marketer of the Barcelona City Council since it acts under "ecological criteria" and "people pay less".
In addition, he stressed that they will promote the regulation of rents despite the "pressures" they will suffer from "great economic interests" to put "limits on speculators and vulture funds to guarantee access to the right to housing."
Possible pacts
In his speech, he also pointed out that "single party governments are over" and remarked that in Catalonia the candidate Albiach is the only one who has publicly shown that she is willing to reach agreements with other political forces.
Thus, Iglesias urged "to normalize that there are differences" and recalled that "we are republicans and our government partner is a monarchist."
In addition, he recalled that a republic offers "a sensible and beautiful alternative for the recognition of the peoples of Spain" since "it has to do with how a State is built respecting identities and also with the public."
In this sense, he stressed that after the health crisis in Spain "if there is a symbol of any identity, it is the one represented by the white uniforms of the health workers" since one of the "lessons of the pandemic is that the public does not become profile and people must know that what can save them, what guarantees their care or their protection are the public elements ".
Thus he censured that in Catalonia there have been "health privatizations" that have "cost lives".
"The traditional managers of Catalan health have done a lot of damage to Catalonia."
"Everyone in Catalonia is aware that the way in which the economic and social consequences of the Covid-19 crisis have been dealt with has nothing to do with how it would have been without Podemos in the State Government, even our more aggressive adversaries, and it is enough to see the aggressiveness of some media powers, "continued the vice president, who recalled the decisions of the State in" defending the dignity of the people with the Ertes "or" the tensions in the council of ministers "to debate on measures to ensure that no one is thrown out of their home.
In addition, he stressed the importance of his party to apply the Minimum Vital Income, the increase in the minimum interprofessional salary, maintain pensions or the legislation on the advertising of betting houses.
The "alternative" according to Colau
For her part, the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, considers that the only possible alternative to the current Govern de Junts and ERC is "a left-wing, plural and transversal government" and added that "only if we have the strength to lead this government of the left, which is the only possible alternative to the current government, these concrete policies will begin to be possible. "
He regretted the current "situation of political blockade aggravated by an absolute mismanagement" of ERC and Junts and accused them of not making useful and "daily life" policies, in addition to not exercising the powers that the Generalitat has, such as housing, regretting that they build a "pittance" of official protection floors.
Colau added that, thanks to the presence of United We Can in the Government, there is a table between governments to advance in the solution of the conflict in Catalonia.
"A dialogue table that is making progress in dialogue with the State precisely because we are in the government and because Pablo Iglesias is the most courageous vice president in the history of democracy in this country," he said.
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