• Politics Moncloa disavows Díaz for his "guide" to the coronavirus while Pablo Iglesias praises his "great work"

The Second Vice President of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, said this Thursday that she was accused of being an "alarmist" when, "in the run-up to March 8", 2020, she presented as Minister of Labor a "guide" for companies on how to deal with the coronavirus , which was already "hitting hard" Italy.

This is what Díaz has expressed after being asked about this episode, which occurred a few days after infections in Spain soared and the state of alarm was decreed, and which she faced within the Government on the eve of the celebration of International Women's Day .

Some mobilizations that the Executive himself invited to attend, who defended that Spain was still in a "containment phase".

"On February 15, as the pandemic was hitting Italy hard, I called my team together because I was convinced that Italy is Spain and, therefore, we had the need to deploy a lot of measures because we saw what was going to happen" , Díaz explained in an interview with Radiocable.

"So much so", the vice president continued, "that on March 4 I presented a guide that was enormously controversial in the Government and also outside, I was accused of being an alarmist ... Anyway. This was in the prelude to the March 8".

Moncloa disavowed Díaz

Díaz recalled this encounter after being asked about the internal tensions of the government coalition.

"My role is not simple at all," admitted the leader of the United We Can in the Government, who in March 2020 was accused of invading powers of the Ministry of Health and in recent weeks has accentuated her differences with the economic vice president, Nadia Calviño , on account of the labor reform.

At the beginning of March 2020, Moncloa distributed a statement in which it disavowed the guide written by Díaz's team: "The indications on the evolution of the coronavirus and the measures to be taken in Spain are coordinated by the Ministry of Health in full coordination between the different administrations of the State ".

The manual was also rejected by the socialist sector of the Government.

The then Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, reduced its content to a "compilation" of recommendations, and the minister spokesman at that time, María Jesús Montero, insisted that all the indications that came from the Government in relation to the coronavirus "would have to be under the umbrella of the Ministry of Health ".

Finally, the Minister of Labor herself changed her speech after the controversy that arose within the Government.

He also started to consider it a "compilation" and transmitted calm to the public: "Let's be cautious. Nothing is happening."

Díaz did not participate in the 8-M

The Minister of Labor did not participate in the marches for International Women's Day 2020. This date is for the opposition the moment when infections soar.

Just five days later, the Pedro Sánchez government announced the state of alarm, which lasted until mid-June.

In one of the main demonstrations, in Madrid, a large part of the Council of Ministers participated, which in the previous days had encouraged participation by complying with the regulations dictated by Health: Carmen Calvo, Arancha González Laya, Fernando Grande Marlaska, Isabel Celaá, Nadia Calviño and Carolina Darias.

On behalf of the United We Can sector in the Government, the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, attended.

Yolanda Díaz, however, called to "vindicate the rights" of this day "by doing different things" and invited to demonstrate in a "creative" way.

"We are in a pandemic and the main thing is public health," he said a few days before 8-M, and called for "an exercise of responsibility."

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