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Yolanda Díaz, dressed in a red dress and Macarena Olona, ​​wearing a light blue and red flamenco dress for the first time.

two divas.

Two policies in the ideological antipodes that have been seen, both, surrounded this Thursday by great expectation and the curiosity of the thousands of visitors who crossed the cover of the

Seville Fair

at noon.

The Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labour, Yolanda Díaz, has been delighted to see "first hand" the April Fair, which this year has fallen in the month of May, and has tried to tiptoe past the controversy that A few weeks ago he confronted her with the

cassette players

and their threat of strike due to the limitations on the hiring of workers that the labor reform promoted by Díaz poses.

"Most of the cassette players comply with the law," the minister has settled.

Yolanda Díaz, with some women dressed as flamenco at the Seville Fair. EDUARDO BRIONESE.

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A few minutes after the arrival of Yolanda Díaz at the Real, the Vox candidate for the Presidency of the Junta de Andalucía, Macarena Olona, ​​landed on the cover of the Fair,

dressed as a flamenco dancer

, with her hair tied back and with several flowers in the most top of the head, as dictated by the canons.

Olona was born in

Alicante

and has never lived in Andalusia, but she is the head of the electoral poster with which Vox will compete in the Andalusian elections that will be held on June 19.

Aware of her limited connection with the Andalusian community, she has presented herself as "the granddaughter of Andalusians who returns home", since her grandparents, as she explained, had to leave the community "to find a life and a future and prosperity ".

In spite of everything, Olona has recalled that "Andalusia welcomed me three years ago" when she had "the honor" of being chosen as a candidate for the elections to the Congress of Deputies for the district of

Granada

.

And to further strengthen her ties with Andalusia, the Vox candidate was this Wednesday in the Plaza de la

Maestranza

in Seville, seeing them with Morante de la Puebla and on the 3rd, at the festival of the

Crosses

of Granada.

Both Macarena Olona and Yolanda Díaz have spread smiles and

selfies

non-stop among the many Sevillians who have approached them to greet them.

Although there has also been a group of young people who, seeing the Vox candidate, have almost fled.

"

Let

's go, come on. Let's see if something is going to hit us", a boy said reluctantly.

On the other hand, an elderly lady has asked Olona to take a picture with her and has praised him for the good figure he looks.

"It is that I have removed the thirty kilos of

pregnancy

", the Vox candidate has confessed.

But not all Sevillians who came to the Fair knew the two divas.

More than one has approached the group of journalists to ask, intrigued, who were the women who monopolized so many

flashes

.

While Yolanda Díaz planned to visit the

booths that the UGT and the Workers' Commissions

set up every year at the Fair, Macarena Olona saw it as "an antagonism to be in the booths of the biggest

traitors of the working class

," in reference to the unions, to whom he has recriminated "robbing Spanish workers of the right to protest" on May 1 for the fact of "having walked arm in arm with the communist minister", in reference to Yolanda Díaz.

Precisely the UGT booth at the Seville Fair, one of the best located in the Real, since it is right next to the cover, made the news in August 2013, when EL MUNDO uncovered that the union had charged subsidies from the Junta de Andalucía its annual dinner in 2010.

The Andalusian confluence of the left

Yolanda Díaz has been delighted at the Fair because it is a festival that reflects "what we want to be: a plural and happy country, which knows how to look to the future", despite the "difficult times".

In addition, she has boasted of the good

data on unemployment

known this Wednesday because "the policies" of the Government chaired by Pedro Sánchez "give results".

During her visit to the April Fair, the second vice president was accompanied by the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Alberto Garzón, who has not aroused as much media interest as Díaz, and by various representatives of the parties to the left of the PSOE who are trying to close an agreement to concur together to the next Andalusian elections on June 19.

Among other political representatives who have accompanied Díaz have been the general coordinator of IU Andalucía,

Toni Valero

;

the person in charge of Institutional Policy of IU Andalucía and spokesperson for the parliamentary group United We Can for Andalusia,

Inmaculada Nieto

;

the general secretary of the Andalusian Communist Party (PCA),

Ernesto Alba

;

the coordinator of Podemos Andalucía,

Martina Velarde

, and the deputy of Unidas Podemos for Cádiz and winner of the Podemos Andalucía primaries to lead his candidacy for the Junta,

Juan Antonio Delgado

.

The second vice-president of the Government was also accompanied by the president of Más País Andalucía, Esperanza Gómez;

Mar González

, representative of Equo, and

José Antonio Jiménez

, of the Andalusian People's Initiative, among others.

Before the cover of the Fair and supported by the different factions of the left-wing groups, Yolanda Díaz has made an appeal in favor of

"adding

different political projects" for the Andalusian elections.

However, she has pointed out that "it is not up to me to point out the negotiations that are taking place in Andalusia" to agree on this possible

confluence

, but she has remarked that "the verb that I like to conjugate is 'add', 'add' and ' Add'".

"Adding diversities, adding different projects, adding to continue expanding our country", added the vice president before adding that, "of course", what she "would like is that Andalusia does not turn its back on the sign of the times", but "look ahead and to the sum".

On March 3, Yolanda Díaz already said that the "broad front" that she is trying to promote at the national level "will not arrive in time" to compete in the Andalusian elections.

Meanwhile, in Podemos, as EL MUNDO has been reporting, they assure that the commitment of the vice president for the Andalusian elections will be greater than in Castilla y León, regardless of how mature her platform is.

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