Profile Yolanda Díaz: family recipes to get out of the crisis
Manuel Lago plug, extra salary and advice for Yolanda Díaz's father's friend
"Before
Pabloism
existed
, I was already a Pabloite", with this phrase Yolanda Díaz (49) defends her loyalty to the leader of Podemos.
Díaz and Iglesias have known each other for decades, they are united by
a
sincere
friendship
and mutual admiration.
For this reason, when Pablo reached a government agreement with Pedro Sánchez, he asked his friend to leave Galician politics to be Minister of Labor.
"She
did not have national aspirations
, but she accepted," a person who treated her in the early days told LOC.
om
or minister.
However, his good work and the harmony with the head of the formation are costing him
internal criticism.
"Diaz insists that
does not want trouble or fights,
but if Iglesias wants her to be his successor, something to which he does not close the door, it will be ", analyzes another consulted person.
One of the problems in Yolanda Díaz's work is
Irene Montero,
with whom you do not get along.
"Irene is very difficult to deal with in general because of her character, yes it is possible that
want to stop the projection
Yolanda, "they explain. And she wants to do it with her right hand,
Juanma del Olmo,
the consultant and director of strategy and communication of Pablo Iglesias, who is the one who Montero trusts the most.
But their misgivings have been transferred to the rest of the formation.
Díaz annoys a part of Podemos, although Pablo has not yet lost confidence in her.
"He left Izquierda Unida in December 2019 and they have seen it as a step to
climb in the party
.
In addition, it bothers them that the Government does not even consider her Minister of Podemos, they treat her as an independent, "they explain. To raise more blisters among those who saw Montero as a successor to her boyfriend, last February they asked Iglesias about Díaz and his possible inheritance from the party: "
Who knows?
Why not?
", I answer enigmatic.
Added to this were the data from the CIS barometer for January.
Although no minister approved, Díaz was the one who got one of the highest scores, and
the best valued of the ministers
of Podemos.
He got a 4.61
in front of the 3.32 of Irene Montero or 3.26 of Pablo Iglesias.
Because part of his success lies in his way of working: "He has a
much more institutional image
that the rest of the ministers of Podemos do not deviate from
his work,
she does not talk about the monarchy or polemicize with those things and that also annoys some but the citizen likes ", analyze another third person who frequently treats her. In fact, after the Catalan elections, Pablo Iglesias asked her to
a more combative tone
as minister, as Luca Constantini told on the portal
Vozpopuli
.
Far from accepting that pressure, she distanced herself from Irene Montero at the first intention of taking to the streets on the occasion of Women's Day and said that it was not the time for demonstrations.
Díaz and Montero in an image together
DANI GAGO
The Galician has been minister since January 2020.
Although historically
his wallet had a lot of power,
With the separation of Work and Social Security, Yolanda only had two branches in which to intervene: the Sepe and the Labor Inspection, so at first no one expected the projection that she has had.
With the crisis that occurred due to the Covid pandemic, Díaz was in charge of
negotiate with agents
the conditions of the Ertes.
Though
Garamendi
prefers to speak directly with the Minister of Economy,
Nadia calviño
On important issues, both employers and unions have praised their way of reaching agreements.
Thus, all have yielded to get term extensions and avoid new layoffs.
"It is dialogue and
knows how to drive
very good to the media, it is very good policy.
But although she seems calmer now, in the years in Galicia she stood out as a very tough policy, her replies to Feijóo were famous, "they say from Galicia.
"His good work has given him
a projection that Pablo did not expect,
It has escaped her and she is already flying alone, but she has no interest in leading anything and, knowing her, I completely rule out that she wants to preside over a party that is also in decline ", analyzes the third source." There is also a question of
jealousy within the government
In general, she is already above these disputes of internal friends of Podemos, but her successes in the negotiations have provoked the envy of other ministries and other ministries, also socialists. "
Beyond their work with the Sepe, in the hands of their ministry, the Labor Inspectorate has launched
a bell
to regularize the situation of domestic employees.
However, although the letter sent to the families that have discharged a female worker
threatened inspections,
Yolanda Díaz's performance could end up weighing down this group.
Just like
published THE WORLD
a week ago, only 31% of the families that received the letter have
regularized to its employees
and of them, almost half, 16%, have suffered some kind of time cut that translates into less salary and less contributions.
Added to that struggle is the headache to get liquidity for
take part of the salary
of the 900,000 people in Erte in Spain, according to data published last week by his ministry, which also showed a harsh number of unemployed: 4,008,789.
The popularity of Díaz cannot fight against this, and neither, for the moment, against the expected labor reform.
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