• Politics Yolanda Díaz accelerates her project and Podemos warns that "she will not dissolve" in Sumar

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Yolanda Díaz makes a declaration of principles about her political project: to remove the space to the left of the PSOE from the political "corner of the board" and lead it back to the "centrality of the social".

In other words, the social-democratic and majority space that Podemos aspired to in its first years of life during its populist moment and that it formally abandoned in 2017 to once again embrace the traditional principles and banners of the left.

In the presentation of the first general lines of the Sumar project, the second vice president of the Government has made a claim to lead the political space that she leads towards the "social majorities" and to widen the space of her voters, in a music that sounds like the the same that Íñigo Errejón interpreted in his speeches.

"The look is not from the corner of the board", she has warned, "but in the depth of the social majorities".

"Sumar's project is not going to be in the corner of a board," she has insisted.

With this, Díaz intends to redefine the sense of space to the left of the PSOE and turn Sumar "into the key to open a progressive decade in Spain."

Otherwise, he has warned, "barbarism is going to come to Spain."

Although Díaz has yet to announce his candidacy for the general elections, he continues to take steps towards that destination every day, like the one this Thursday, in which he presented the framework lines and some of the proposals that Sumar intends to champion, in what he aspires to to become a "country project for the next decade".

Díaz has vindicated the "ideas" to govern and has pointed out that there are people who "make a lot of noise" but who do not really have a project.

"We want to govern, that's why we put so much effort into designing a new country," he emphasized.

With the ghost of the stormy relationship with Podemos always raised in each of his interventions, Díaz has sought conciliatory messages although he has not specified, as the purple party demands, what role he will have.

In a soccer simile, he said that "one can be from Barça or Madrid", "but when we grow a lot is when we put on the same shirt and we all defend the team. That's when we add a lot and win a lot more", he has affirmed.

He has declared himself "optimistic" in this regard to unite the different movements and also "different political formations".

"If the country project is shared, I am sure that we are going to Add", she has finished off, "we come from where we come from".

In addition to these ideas about the project, Díaz has landed for the first time some of the flags that he intends to wield in order to widen those social majorities.

The axes of it are going to be health, housing or the reduction of the working day to less than eight hours.

Regarding the latter, he said that the eight-hour work day has been going on for a century and that "the time has come" to reduce that number of hours.

Because now, on top of that, workers accumulate an average of 6.5 million extra hours a week in the whole of Spain, more than half of which are not paid.

"Overtime without pay has ended and it will not see the light again for being a fraud in working time," he has sentenced.

Díaz has stressed that public health will be a "central" objective of Sumar and has explained that among his proposals are including oral and optical health within health coverage, as well as changing "the regulatory model for primary care".

In the act of Sumar, nine of the 35 coordinators of the working groups that are in the task of landing in documents the "country project for the next decade" that Díaz wants to defend have intervened.

In the turn of the experts, Ignacio Sánchez Cuenca (Democratic Quality), Cesar Rendueles (Welfare and Social Rights), Amparo Merino (Decent Work), Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo (Economy and productive model), Zaida Muxí (Urban Issue) intervened. , María Ramos (Healthy Eating), Rafa Cofiño (Health and Mental Health), Marina Echebarría.

(LGBTBIQ+ rights and freedoms) and Elsa Arnaiz (Youth).

All of them have summarized in three minutes the general ideas of the horizon in which they work, with more rhetoric than concreteness.

Each of the 35 groups will make their own document, but there is also a group called the rapporteur team that will be in charge of making the introduction and articulating the whole "country project."

Among other people, the Minister of Universities, Joan Subirats, or Antonio Baylos, Professor of Labor Law at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, who have also spoken, work on it.

Sánchez Cuenca, a leading intellectual in the social democratic space, is the one who has specified the most to announce proposals to "limit the power of the parties" in political appointments in State institutions and technicians in public administrations.

Among the more than 300 attendees, there was a significant presence of CCOO members, with former union leaders Antonio Gutiérrez and Ignacio Fernández Toxo.

Suso Díaz, the father of the vice president and a historic Galician trade unionist, has also been there.

As for parties, the vice president of the Balearic Islands, Juan Pedro Yllanes, and the secretary general of the United Podemos group in Congress, Txema Guijarro, attended on behalf of Podemos.

In addition, the Andalusian deputy Esperanza Gómez has been representing Más País.

Former leaders of Podemos such as Pablo Bustiduy or Eduardo Maura have also been seen.

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