Before starting her speech at the pre-campaign event of the current mayor of Barcelona and candidate of Barcelona en Comú, Ada Colau, the leader of Sumar Yolanda Díaz was listening for several minutes to the cries of "president", "president". It was a symptom of the enormous complicity that Colau and Díaz showed and that reinforces the support of the 'commons' to the Sumar project in its struggle with the political space of Podemos. A harmony that was evident when Colau told Díaz: "We want you to be the first president of the Government, we deserve you to be our first progressive woman who commands in Spain and from Barcelona we are going to help you." Quite a declaration of intent.

Diaz did not spare praise for Colau and all his work of municipal government in addition to making clear the actions promoted in labor reform. Thus, he announced changes in the Basic Statute of Public Employees to end "precariousness" as he did with the labor reform: "Young people had to choose between a shitty contract or be unemployed and we have changed that." In this sense, he stressed that there are 42% levels of indefinite hiring in the private sector and announced that he wants to bring this job stability to the public part, such as health, education or social services, since there is a "regrettable situation"

Díaz considered that it is an "indecency" that some professionals in health or education have several monthly contracts and that is why he announced reforms to guarantee their stability. It is one of the measures of "useful policy because it improves people's lives" as opposed to the "privatization of the public sector as the right does." Thus the second vice president of the Government and leader of Sumar, warned the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and the candidate of Junts for mayor of Barcelona, Xavier Trias that "the austerity laws are over, we are radically fed up",

In addition, he censured the debates on municipalist models based on large infrastructures such as a macrocasino near Tarragona or the expansion of El Prat airport, a project supported by Díaz's socialist government partners. "When all the most relevant European cities defend sustainable bets or mobility rights by promoting the railway, here we talk about expanding the airport. It goes against the sign of the times," Diaz remarked and added that in the May elections the "model of the progressive coalition government of Spain, of which Colau is part" or "the infrastructure of the right, whatever it is called" and that is the one that Trias defends "which is the one of the past, is in dispute. It's looking at the '90s."

That is why he called on "the workers" of Barcelona to vote for the current mayor who also launched a message to her socialist partners in Batcelona: "I am more perplexed that parties that call themselves progressive now show that they are not in government and open the door to agree with Junts. I am perplexed", Thus, Colau affirmed that Barcelona en Comú extends its hand to all progressive forces to "lead a future against the past of pollution and speculation".

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  • Ada Colau
  • Yolanda Diaz
  • Tarragona
  • Xavier Trias
  • Alberto Núñez Feijóo
  • Nadia Calviño
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  • Pedro Sanchez

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