• Politics Yolanda Díaz and Errejón make the greatest display of harmony to dispatch the order of Podemos

To the cry of "president, president", more than a thousand people have received this Sunday Yolanda Díaz, the second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, in Seville, where she has disembarked with her "act of listening" open to citizens for her project Sumar.

With an auditorium with capacity for 1,100 people crowded in the Palace of Exhibitions and Congresses of Seville (Fibes) and with dozens of people on the street who have been left without a place, Yolanda Díaz has announced that the presentation of her candidacy for the Presidency of the Government with Sumar is approaching. "I'm going to say it in Seville", the announcement "I'm going to do it immediately", Díaz revealed.

It is one of the "most important" decisions of his life, which "I hope will serve to contribute to my country, to give people hope and to tell people that they are having a hard time, that they can not make the purchase or pay the mortgage, that it is possible, "he ventured.

Among the more than 1,000 people who have come to the Palace of Exhibitions and Congresses to listen to Yolanda Díaz there was no leader of Podemos. Neither national nor Andalusian. On the other hand, a good number of Andalusian leaders of the United Left, the PCA and Más País have attended.

The sit-in of the dome of Podemos to Yolanda Díaz and her project Sumar in Seville occurs after the purpleformation launched an order to the vice president and minister of Employment this Thursday to close a "coalition" agreement before she announces her candidacy for the generals. If this pact between the formations to the left of the PSOE does not occur within the period set by Podemos, the day Yolanda Díaz announces her candidacy will not be Ione Belarra, general secretary of Podemos and Minister of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, nor other leaders of weight of the formation.

No member of the leadership of Podemos has attended the act of Yolanda Díaz, but the three women of the purple formation that lead the confluence candidacies of the parties to the left of the PSOE for the municipal elections in their respective municipalities: Seville, San Juan de Aznalfarache and Tomares have been present. The three have taken pictures with Yolanda Díaz. The candidate of the confluence in Seville, Susana Hornillo, has posted the photo on her social networks with the following message: "For a greener, fairer and feminist city, on May 28 our progressive confluence goes out to win the Mayor of Seville. Unity and sisterhood."

Sources of Podemos in Andalusia have specified to EL MUNDO that they have seen more convenient that the three women of this formation who will head the municipal lists in the confluence candidacy attend, as it is an act of "active listening" towards civil society. Better the three candidates for mayor than other party leaders, they have pointed out.

Despite the snub of the leadership of Podemos in the act of Seville and the order launched by this party to close an agreement before the candidacy of Sumar is announced, Yolanda Díaz has reached out to this formation, without expressly mentioning it. "It is difficult to add different traditions and add the different, but I am clear that, if we aspire to change our country, when we agree on 90% of the program, our obligation is to walk together and be up to the challenge at hand," he warned.

The event convened by Yolanda Díaz was attended by the general coordinator of IU-CA, Toni Valero; his predecessor in office, Antonio Maíllo, and the Andalusian leader of Más País, Esperanza Gómez. On Maíllo, the vice president has said that he is a person who loves and admires and "adds for many reasons", which has caused the applause of the attendees to the former leader of IU-CA.

Motion of censure

During her speech, Yolanda Díaz also referred to the motion of censure promoted by Vox against the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, which will begin this Tuesday, March 21. For the minister, this motion of censure, whose candidate is the veteran economist Ramón Tamames, "is no joke."

For Díaz, "we are deteriorating democracy", when it is "legitimized that your adversary wants to throw you out of the Government" through a motion of censure in which there is no "political program" or ideas, but only aims to throw out the current Government of the PSOE and United We Can, according to the minister.

"Beyond the candidate's capacity for innovation", the objective is not to present a government program, but that "we leave the Government of Spain". "This is no joke, in democratic terms it is quite serious," Yolanda Díaz said.

Andalusian unemployment

Before the event began, Yolanda Díaz left the Palace of Exhibitions and Congresses and approached the dozens of people who have been left on the street without a place to see her. He has told them that it is an "indecency" that the president of the Junta de Andalucía, the popular Juanma Moreno, "leaves unexecuted" funds to "create employment" in the Andalusian community, where there are figures of "impossible unemployment" that "can be changed".

In the gallery and before a packed auditorium, Díaz has abounded in the idea and has remarked that in Andalusia, despite more than 40 years of democracy, the "bipartisanship has condemned you" and has allowed "you to have indecent unemployment figures".

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