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Yolanda Díaz will face September with a double challenge: as the second vice president of the Government, she will have to fight against the storm that is brewing in the Spanish economy and that has already forced the Executive of Pedro Sánchez to take urgent measures against inflation;

As leader of the space to the left of the PSOE, she will move towards the drafting of a "new social contract" prior to the electoral formation of a broad front with which to definitively overcome United We Can in 2023.

A hectic beginning of a political course, marked by the negotiation of the next General State Budgets and by the rumor of a possible restructuring that flies over the Council of Ministers, which contrasts with the low profile that the also Minister of Labor is showing in the last weeks.

Díaz seeks the least possible political wear and tear, knowing that in the final stretch of the legislature - and with some regional and local elections in between - the left, and specifically its plan, risks everything.

The listening process with the citizens, materialized in the Sumar association, started with great expectation in July and, in less than two weeks, held its first two acts in Madrid.

But since then it has been on

and will not resume its activity until September 1, when Díaz goes to

to "collect contributions" from rural Spain and resume his project, which will not have political overtones at least until 2023.

Just one day later, on September 2, the second vice-president of the Executive will open the next chapter of her ministerial management -in which, inevitably, she plans to rely on to set her own profile against the PSOE and Podemos-: that Friday the commission of experts delegated to study a new increase in

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Yolanda Díaz in the arena of Adding... Or subtracting?

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Yolanda Díaz in the arena of Adding... Or subtracting?

This is Diaz's proposal to fight against the forceful rise in prices.

"Faced with runaway inflation, impossible for the social majority, more than ever we must raise the SMI," he said a few days ago.

The worrying data on unemployment in July - which rose for the first time in 14 years in a historically good month for employment and after a positive trend in recent times - turned on the red light in several ministries, as well as in

, from where Caution and expectation are called for in the face of a complicated autumn for which the opposition is also preparing.

It resists specifying the configuration of the space that prepares and worries Podemos

In the

they manage a percentage: 60% of the average salary, until reaching 1,048 euros.

This will be the level that Díaz will try to reach, as recently confirmed by the Secretary of State for Employment,

, for the fourth increase in the SMI that the Executive will seek to address so far in the legislature.

A percentage that is already reached in several autonomies and that is contemplated among the objectives of the coalition for the current legislature.

This explains, mainly, the approval that both the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the First Vice President, Nadia Calviño, although neither of them have confirmed for the moment the figure given by the Ministry of Labor.

"Obviously, this is one of the tasks that we have to tackle in the coming autumn," the Chief Executive clarified a few days ago, during his visit to Albania.

The negotiation, yes, is once again complex in terms of agreements between unions and employers.

As has already happened with previous rises and other major projects of the Ministry of Labor, such as the labor reform, Díaz will explore all possible avenues and rush the deadlines to achieve the greatest possible consensus.

It is precisely the same challenge that lies ahead once the Sumar experience is over and the phase of political understanding of his plan begins.

To date, Díaz is reluctant to specify the configuration of the space that he is preparing, something that worries Podemos.

The

claim, in fact, to occupy an "essential" role in the vice president's schemes.

Now, even, they call it an "ally" at the same time that they propose to go to the elections in a coalition format and not diluted in the brand headed by Díaz, as well as designing the hierarchy "bilaterally".

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