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Irene Montero has insinuated that Yolanda Díaz is putting herself "in profile" in the confrontation that Podemos and the PSOE are having with the correction of the law of only yes is yes and has contrasted the attitude of the second vice president with that of the purple party and herself of "always being there, especially in difficult times." That is why he finished by saying that this performance will have to be "valued by the people".

The dart on the way Díaz exercises his political leadership is part of the tense pulse that Podemos and Sumar maintain for the reconfiguration of the space of the alternative left to the PSOE for the next general elections, where for now the differences between the two parties are preventing an agreement to unite and leave in the air the possibility that there are two opposing candidacies.

With this context very present, the Minister of Equality has hinted at her discomfort with Díaz for understanding that he is not getting involved in such a relevant issue. Podemos has resumed since last Monday its offensive against the PSOE and pressures it not to go ahead with its proposal to reform the law of only yes is yes. He accuses him of throwing himself into the arms of the PP, "a party that has voted against all women's rights", to have the votes to approve the proposal. For her part, the vice president did not want to comment yesterday on the debate between purples and socialists and said that she "lets the parliamentary groups work" without issuing "opinions" on what they do. Although he assured that as a "democrat" he will vote what the group of Unidas Podemos dictates.

"Many times you have asked me what I have to say when it is understood that Yolanda puts herself in profile and I will do the same as the other times. I think people have to value that," Montero responded in an intervention on Canal Red, Pablo Iglesias' channel, where Díaz was reproached for "ignoring" the situation.

The minister has continued her response by contrasting the two attitudes. "What I can do is speak for myself and for my political formation, which is Podemos. Of course, what we do is always be there, especially in difficult moments, because only in this way can a country be transformed and rights can be advanced."

Yesterday, in an official video of Podemos for the electoral pre-campaign, the purple party also reproached Díaz for his lukewarmness and his complicity with the PSOE. When presenting what it is to be of Podemos he said that "he is the militant of all the fucking life that hallucinates and is indignant when he sees that his ministers put themselves in profile with NATO and the war in Ukraine."

It is also proclaimed that Podemos "is the Spanish rebellion that transforms and to continue transforming this country the rebellion of those who are not silent is needed."

There is another allusion to Díaz in the form of a response after months ago he proposed that Sumar wanted to take the left out of the "corner" of the political chessboard to seek a more transversal space and majorities. The video disfigures those who think that Podemos "is a group of resistors far from the majority and condemned to live in a corner of the board."

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