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The Sumar platform, promoted by the Second Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, outside of United We Can, will not be ready to stand for the municipal and regional elections scheduled for next year 2023. "I think we have not arrived" , assured this Sunday its promoter.

In an interview granted to Cadena Ser in

Díaz pointed out that "his citizen movement" is still in the creation phase and that until December or January he will be setting up sectoral and territorial teams.

Then it will be time for a "complete definition" of the project, he explained.

In fact, he did not even give 100% certainty that this new political brand will reach the next general election.

“It is a citizen project, it is not an electoral project,” he clarified, adding that first it will be necessary for people to activate and “later we will decide collectively if we understand that we must become an electoral project and, therefore, go to the elections or not".

The Minister of Labor indicates that she will go "step by step" and, at this time, "the most important thing" for them is to work on the design of a country for the next decade that "has to be close to the real problems of citizenship » and designed for the 21st century.

"I am working with regulations that come from the 80s, the Spanish tax model responds to economic relations that have to do with the last century, not with the 21st, which indicates that we have a lot to do," he deepened in the interview , in which he made a call to participate at a time when he detects "fed up and a strong split between politics and citizenship."

The vice president does not set deadlines, convinced that Sumar has to have "a collective framework."

Starting from the event held at the

she has formed more than 25 work teams on topics such as the definition of the New Europe, health or technological advances.

This model will be presented in all the communities and the end of the year is marked as a moment in which they will be able to have "a great vision of the country" and move on to a new phase.

The Minister of Labor also valued the latest data from the CIS, which for the first time place Alberto Núñez Feijóo's PP as the first force.

He pointed out that the barometer marks "trends" and, in this case, the data is "very relevant in a premise: that the forces of the right and extreme right do not add up" and, therefore, the political future of Spain "goes through reissuing the progressive coalition.

Díaz, who spent last week traveling through the

, has maintained an absolutely low profile regarding the latest controversy over the dismissal by Podemos of the Secretary of State for the 2030 Agenda,

and his replacement by

Santiago, who is also secretary general of

is a leader very close to Díaz.

While Verstrynge is a fully trusted position of Podemos of Ione Belarra.

“In politicking they will never find me,” he told the media in

“I wish Santiago the best of luck and I wish Belarra and his team the best of luck.

They will never see me in matters other than the tasks of my vice presidency and my tasks of expanding democracy », he insisted.

This Sunday, the vice president also referred to her latest confrontation with the president of the Government, although she insisted on sending a calm message: "It is known that I do not like the uproar neither in the Government, nor outside the Government, nor in politics , is not my way of policing ».

Díaz insisted that they are "two different political formations" and it is "healthy" for citizens to know the differences that exist within the Government, highlighting those that exist in tax matters, but appealed to address them "by discussing the proposals and without making noise ».

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